Glasgow
Welcome to Glasgow
Glasgow City Council is Scotland's largest local authority with 27,000 employees and a gross annual budget of more than £2.8 billion. A further 4,500 staff work for our arm’s length partner organisations known as the Glasgow Family.
We want Glasgow to flourish as a modern, multi-cultural, metropolitan city of opportunity, achievement, culture and sporting excellence where citizens and businesses thrive and visitors are always welcomed.
Our Strategic Plan sets out four key challenges and more than 230 commitments on how all council services will help address, support and deliver on the city's main priorities. The four grand challenges which have been identified are:-
- Reduce poverty and inequality in our communities
- Increase opportunity and prosperity for all our citizens
- Fight the climate emergency in a just transition to a net zero Glasgow
- Enable staff to deliver essential services in a sustainable, innovative, and efficient way for our communities.
The plan outlines missions that cover ambitious aims including ending child poverty, improving the health and wellbeing of local communities, supporting residents into sustainable and fair work, delivering sustainable transport, becoming a net zero carbon city by 2030, creating safe, clean, and thriving neighbourhoods, raising attainment amongst children and young people, and running an open, well governed council in partnership with all our communities.
To help achieve these aims, Glasgow City Council and the Glasgow Family offer rewarding and challenging jobs and careers across a diverse range of public services such as: -
- Education and Social Care
- Culture and Sporting Services
- Community Safety
- Roads Maintenance and Street Lighting
- Parks and Open Spaces
- Cleaning and Refuse Collection
- Construction and Maintenance
Our partner organisation Clyde Gateway does not advertise on myjobscotland, please click on the link to be taken to their website.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Achieving diversity in the workplace is important to us: it isn’t just about complying with the law it’s about recognising and valuing each other’s differences and treating each other fairly.
We want to recognise everybody’s worth regardless of their age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief and ensure equality across all areas. We want to respect others, and be a sensitive and understanding employer.
We want do this because we think that when people can be themselves they perform better and it helps us to better reflect the community we serve. To achieve this we will:
- Undertake positive action activities to promote fairness and diversity throughout all our recruitment practices.
- Strive to continually improve our processes in order to work positively with the communities we serve to develop and engage their skills and abilities to improve our effectiveness.
- Commit to fairness and diversity within all our practices and ensure respect and dignity for all employees.
Positive Action
We recognise that we are under-represented by people from minority groups such as black and minority ethnic people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and those who identify as having a disability.
In order to raise awareness and promote careers within Glasgow City Council and our arm’s length partner organisations, we use Positive Action to encourage and inform individuals from these groups. We particularly encourage applications from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as well as disabled candidates and women for senior roles, as these groups are currently under‑represented in our workforce.
Positive Action is legal under the Equality Act 2010 and refers to a number of activities employed by an organisation, which are designed to counteract under representation and disadvantage.
These initiatives are aimed at attracting people to consider Glasgow City Council and our arm’s length partner organisations as employers of choice, knowing that their application will be treated equally and selection is done on the basis of merit and the ability of that individual to carry out the job.
Positive Action activities that are carried out by us include information sessions for under-represented groups prior to the commencement of recruitment campaigns, attending talks within the communities, placement opportunities and holding presentations on careers in local government.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to meeting our duties under the terms of the Equality Act 2010 which states that an employer has a duty to consider reasonable adjustments for any applicant who identifies that they have a disability.
Where appropriate, we will consider all requests for reasonable adjustments that are made during the recruitment process and will discuss this with the applicant.
Equalities Monitoring Form
In order for us to ensure we are providing equality of opportunity we ask that all candidates complete an Equalities Monitoring Form, this is included within our application pack.
For more information on working with us, please go to Careers - Glasgow City Council
