Job Description
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an Estate Assistant to join our Estates team covering the Crawley, Caterham, Smallfield, and Horsham areas on a full-time, permanent basis.
You will provide a high-quality grounds maintenance, gardening, and cleaning service, ensuring compliance with agreed standards, specifications, and timescales. This will include maintenance of a variety of sites and garden types, lawn, shrub, and plant care, refuse removal, and an element of cleaning internal communal areas.
You will represent Guinness on site, fostering positive working relationships with customers, contractors, and colleagues. You will be required to provide site access, report responsive repairs, and deal with any fly tipping and safeguarding alerts. Other areas of responsibility include the cleaning of internal communal spaces on our schemes - mopping, vacuuming, cobwebbing, carpet cleaning, wiping down surfaces, and clearing/cleaning bin areas.
What we’re looking for
We are a customer-focused organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You will not only be an experienced Estate Assistant with previous grounds maintenance skills, but you will also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile. You will also be able to demonstrate the below essential skills:
* Proven professional experience of delivering grounds maintenance across a variety of sites and garden types.
* Experience and knowledge of lawn, shrub, and plant care.
* Proven experience of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction.
* Ability to carry out physical tasks within Health & Safety guidelines.
* Ability to work effectively within a team and without high levels of supervision.
* Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, including COSHH and PPE.
* Full UK driving license.
Desirable Qualifications
* NVQ 2 in Horticulture or RHS/City and Guilds/HND equivalent.
* PA1 and PA6 NPTC Certificates.
Interview Process: Face-to-face interviews will take place on Monday, 27th January 2025, at our Crawley office.
Please review the Role Profile, apply, and submit your CV to be considered for this opportunity.
About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business, and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities, and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.
The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.
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