Glasgow City Council Jobs

Many people believe that a Glasgow City Council job is a good thing to have. Glasgow City Council is one of the largest employers in all of Scotland, and employees around 32,000 people. All these people help provide council services such as social work, education, business development, environmental health, financial, legal, cultural and leisure, catering and cleaning and construction, to name a few.

The city council has two visions that affect its employees. The first is to create a city with a strong economy and is safe, clean and healthy. In order to achieve this, the council encourages all of its employees to work together so they can provide the best possible service to the people of Glasgow. The second vision of the city council is to create an environment nourishes motivated employees who are not afraid to be creative or to express their ideas. The council believes this will help its employees to take responsibility for providing the best service to its customers.

The council’s employee code of conduct spells out in detail what is expected of each employee. It is based on the Nolan committee on the Standards of Conduct in Local Government. The code of conduct was agreed upon with the Trade Unions which represent city council employees; therefore, it applies to all employees. But individual department heads have lee way to implement additional guidelines for their departments.

The code is structured around the seven principles of public life, which were identified by the Nolan committee on Standards in Public Life. There are selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

Everyone who works a Glasgow City Council job is expected to be in compliance with the code of conduct. However, it doesn’t affect employees’ rights and responsibilities under the law. The nature of work is also a factor in the sense that some parts of the code will be more applicable to some employees than it is to others. But overall, any employee who breaches the code of conduct may be subject to disciplinary action.

So we have an idea of what Glasgow City Council expects from its employees, but what does the council do for its employees?

There are a full range of benefits available for city council employees. They include things like 28 days annual leave. Plus there are 12.5 days of public holidays each year. If you add it up, Glasgow full time city employees get a minimum of 40.5 days off each year. Another reason for an employee of the city council to have days off is for sickness. Depending on how long the person has worked for the council, the occupational sick pay scheme could earn that employee up to 26 weeks of sick leave at full and half pay. The council’s website said this would be in additional to any statutory sick pay.

There is a work life balance programme which would allow people with 26 weeks or more of service to the council to request flexible working options. The website also says the council’s family friendly policies go beyond the legal requirement for maternity leave, maternity support, and adoption and so on.

Other benefits are things like a childcare scheme, based on salary sacrifice; employee development; a staff benefit scheme; a local authority pension scheme; plus a few others.