Mobile Caretaker
Posted 9 hours 43 minutes ago by Sanctuary Group
Salary: £ 29,912 - £ 31,486 per year
Hours: 40 hours per week - Monday to Friday, 8am to 16:30pm.
We have an opportunity for a Caretaker to join our team in East London, providing an effective estate maintenance service that meets customer and organisational needs. This role sits within Property Services, which is responsible for delivering a high quality and cost effective property repairs, compliance and installation and estate services across the UK to mainly internal clients and a small number of external clients. It also manages operational Health and Safety of the service, including fire safety and delivering effective group wide asset management and reinvestment programmes.
Responsibilities- Providing an effective estate maintenance service by undertaking caretaking, cleaning, basic repair and grounds maintenance duties in accordance with local and legislative procedures.
- Providing accurate and timely information on progress and advice that is easily understood by the customer and ensuring accurate daily work records are completed to meet organisational standards.
- Carrying out risk assessments to identify and report any potential maintenance issues to ensure a safe environment and support planned maintenance programmes.
- Ensuring tools and equipment are maintained in good condition, used in line with policies and procedures and relevant regulations, reporting faults, hazards and inappropriate practice promptly.
- Ensuring all supplies and stocks are ordered, maintained and stored appropriately in line with regulation and organisational procedures.
- Maintaining relationships with internal and external customers, providing accurate and timely information on progress and responding positively to complaints and breakdowns in service delivery to meet customer expectations, in accordance with contract specifications and escalating complaints as appropriate.
- Providing regular reports for Senior Managers regarding health and safety issues and building maintenance.
- Able to demonstrate a competent level of numeracy and literacy.
- Experience in a similar role or completing similar tasks.
- Some experience of working to deadlines and prioritising workloads.
- Practical experience of carrying out risk assessments.
- Working knowledge of Health and Safety legislation.
- Knowledge of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) guidelines.
- Basic communication skills for reading written instructions and updating records.
- Good interpersonal and customer care skills.
- Driving on company business - drivers must hold a full valid UK driving licence.
- 25 days annual leave.
- A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary.
- Life Assurance.
- Employee Advice Service including counselling. \Cycle to Work scheme.
- Voluntary health plans.
- Wellbeing support and tools.
- Staff Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion.
- £ 29,912 per annum (rising to £ 31,486 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance).
We provide in house repairs and maintenance for a wide range of properties, as part of a not for profit organisation. We foster a diverse and inclusive culture. Our customers are at the heart of all we do, and colleagues help make a real difference to people's lives.
Inclusion is one of our core values. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary's commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
We reserve the right to close or extend the closing dates for positions depending on application numbers; we would therefore recommend an early application.
Sanctuary Maintenance Contractors Limited is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.