Estate Services Caretaker
- Employer
- Catalyst Housing Limited
- Location
- Slough, Berkshire
- Salary
- Up to 23183 UKP per year
- Closing date
- 30 May 2022
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- Function
- Residential Development & Construction, Construction
- Seniority
- Assistant / coordinator
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organisation Type
- Other Organisation Type
Job Details
We’re looking for an experienced Caretaker to join us to provide an effective, responsive and pro-active customer focussed relief caretaking service that is of consistently high standard.
About us
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations, a member of the G15 group of London’s largest housing associations, with 34,000 homes and 1,200 employees in London and the Home Counties.
We're at a particularly exciting point in our story, as Catalyst joined the Peabody Group as a subsidiary on 1 April 2022, before fully merging in April 2023. The new organisation will be responsible for 104,000 homes, with 220,000 residents across London and the South East of England. By joining together, we’ll go further and faster with our plans to improve our services, invest in our homes and communities and create innovative solutions to the challenges of carbon consumption and building safety.
Our purpose
We will continue to create and maintain great homes, whilst delivering excellent service to customers every day. We offer a wide range of housing solutions and opportunities for our diverse range of customer needs and requirements including, rent, part ownership or purchase. In doing so, we build more than homes – we build communities.
We will also be able to create great opportunities for our colleagues to develop their careers within our business, and diversity and inclusion and learning and development will continue to be priorities for the new organisation.
What we’re looking for:
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Do you have experience in providing cleaning/caretaking services?
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Do you have excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate effectively with customers and colleagues?
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Do you have commitment to first class estate cleanliness and physically able to carry out moderate strenuous work?
If so, this is the perfect role for you!
We currently have a great opportunity for an estate services Caretaker to join us on a permanent contract basis
Do you have what it takes
To succeed in your role as a Caretaker you will:
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Have basic knowledge and understanding of health and safety regulations in relation to environmental services as defined by the organisation
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Be able to organise your own workload efficiently with minimal supervision
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Be able to achieve cleaning industry specific competency such as BIC OPC level 1&2
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Have good literacy and basic Numeracy skills
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Work as a member of a team and understand the wider impact the work on residents and other departments
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Be self-motivated, flexible, personable, and pro-active
The UK has a housing problem which affects every one of us, because housing is the foundation of the society we live in. Catalyst is part of the solution, and you could be too!
This role is subject to a Basic DBS check and will require a full driving licence.
Additional Documents
View the Catalyst Privacy Statement
The benefits
We’re committed to making Catalyst a great place to work. As well as offering a positive culture we offer a?competitive?pay and benefits package, some of which are listed below:
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Flexible and agile working
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Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
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Up to 30 days paid annual leave
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Two additional paid volunteering days each year
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Learning and development programme where we invest in your personal development and training as soon as you start work with us
To find out more take a look at our benefits page - https://careers.chg.org.uk/catalyst-benefits/
Ready to apply
We are inspired by the benefits of a diverse workforce. We encourage diversity and inclusion at all levels of our organisation and are fully committed to equality of opportunity. We want to remove any barriers for people to enable them to participate equally within the recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments, please let us know and we can discuss your requirements for the recruitment process.
To be considered for the role of an estate services caretaker please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit your details along with a copy of your CV and a supporting statement.
Company
The UK has a housing problem. This affects every one of us, because housing is the foundation of the society we live in. Catalyst is part of the solution.
We are one of the UK’s leading housing associations – a member of the G15 group, with over 21,000 homes. We’re here to make a purposeful difference, providing housing solutions and opportunities for those who can’t afford a home without our help.
We offer a wide range of homes, for rent, part ownership or purchase. And by doing so, we build more than homes – we build communities.
We also work hard to be a great employer, to deliver outstanding customer service and to be a high-performance business. We are absolutely committed to our social purpose, in every part of our organisation. And we always seek to do better.
We’re a Sunday Times top 100 Best Company to Work for. We invest a lot of time and resources in our people because we know it’s our people who will drive our success.
- Website
- http://www.chg.org.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 8832 3334
- Location
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Ealing Gateway
26-30 Uxbridge Road
Ealing
London
London
W5 2AU
GB
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