Join Our Team: Neighbourhood Caretaker
Position: Neighbourhood Caretaker
Location: Newtown, Shard End & Hodge Hill
Salary: 12.00 - 13.20 per hour
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Why Choose Job&Talent:
* Career growth opportunities
* Comprehensive benefits
* Professional stability
Benefits:
* 28 Holidays rising to 38 days, Weekly Pay, Pension Scheme, Mortgage References
Requirements:
* A full driving licence is an essential requirement with the ability to drive a tipper vehicle
* Cleaning experience is essential
* Requirement to form part of a flexible team to work between the hours of 7.00am and 7.00pm depending on local service needs and priorities
* Where necessary, be required to undertake enhanced driver training to drive large vehicles (e.g. Tippers)
* Attendance at meetings outside normal working hours, as necessary
* Excellent inter-personal and communication skills in both verbal and written form
* Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
* Excellent customer care skills
* Commitment to equal opportunities in all aspects of service delivery
Responsibilities:
As a Neighbourhood Caretaker, you will:
* Be responsible for the inspection, maintenance and cleansing of estates/communal housing land/sites within the quadrant boundary. You will supervise estate caretakers and assist the public in a polite and helpful manner in accordance with the Employer's Customer Care Policy.
* Complete regular health and safety, cleaning, maintenance and inspections as appropriate, emphasizing maintaining quiet, clean, green and safe communal areas/neighbourhoods and helping to deter Anti-Social Behaviour.
* Have responsibility for neighbourhood caretaking schemes and associated communal areas, as well as for communal housing land and sites in the wider quadrant. Your activity in the wider neighbourhood will depend on service needs.
* Improve/maintain the 'kerb appeal' of communal housing land/sites and neighbourhoods, which may include sheltered housing schemes.
* Occasionally be required to undertake activity in tenants' homes/gardens for emergencies, with any non-emergency work agreed with your housing officer/street scene coordinator/housing manager/supervising officer.
* Act as the first point of contact for residents regarding estate service and maintenance issues, responding positively and helpfully to queries. Ensure a full and effective cleaning and maintenance service is delivered to communal areas within multi-storey and low-rise blocks of flats and external areas, as necessary.
* Not be restricted to any one neighbourhood caretaking scheme and undertake work in the wider housing neighbourhood (e.g., garage sites, access ways, drying areas) based on service needs and in liaison with your housing officer, street scene coordinator/housing manager.
* Work with other estate-based staff, colleagues, contractors, and both internal and external partners (e.g., Fleet and Waste Management, Parks, Repairs Service, and contractors) to forge relationships with residents and the local community, including RSLs and other landlords that promote service improvements, increased resident responsibility for their surroundings, and resident satisfaction.
* Help identify your training needs and those of staff you manage/supervise, in partnership with your supervisor/manager, and develop strategies to meet those needs in line with the objectives of the organization.
* Carry out day-to-day supervision of estate caretakers (at other locations where required), including work allocation and monitoring employment-related issues, which includes: Performance Management, Setting targets/priorities, Giving instructions, Identification of training needs through 1 to 1's and My Appraisal's, Providing training as necessary, Sickness monitoring in accordance with the City's Managing Attendance Procedure, Return to Work interviews, and undertaking Risk Assessments and issuing safe working guidance.
About Us:
Job&Talent is recruiting for a Neighbourhood Caretaker to join a leading company in Newtown, Shard End & Hodge Hill.
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