Estate Cleaner Caretaker

The role reports directly to the CRE Estate Manager and forms part of a team that is responsible for ensuring that the council's housing estates are tidy, litter free, clean, safe, and assisting in keeping the communal areas in a good state of repair.

• Question and challenge ways of working, with an understanding of the bigger picture in terms of the corporate context and external environment.
• Demonstrate agility and adaptability in mindset and ways of working.
• Work successfully with key stakeholders within and outside of the Council.
• Demonstrate commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role.
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity.
• Actively engage in positive cross‑organisation communications and team working.
• Communicate clearly, confidently and appropriately with colleagues using the best methods of communication for the task.
• You understand the importance of health and safety in relation to the caretaking of social housing and housing estates.
• Operate effectively in an environment that requires work outdoors in all weathers, includes potential exposure to hazardous substances, and manual handling of heavy objects.

• Knowledge and experience of cleaning or caretaking, ideally in a social housing/commercial setting.
• Able to use a smartphone/basic IT databases.
• Ability to carry out a range of basic maintenance tasks.
• Experience of deep cleaning and use of specialist cleaning equipment and machinery (desirable).
• Ability to drive a motor vehicle as and when required; hold a current full UK driving licence (desirable).

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website.

The CRE Estate Services Team is a multidisciplinary team looking after 3 of the council's housing estates (Cambridge Road Estate, Cambridge Gardens and Arun House) located in Kingston. The range of services the team will deliver are: block cleaning, deep cleaning, bulk/graffiti removal, minor communal repairs and responding to other estate issues.

7:30 am – 3:45 pm (Monday – Thursday)
7:30 am – 3:30 pm (Friday)

Uniform and all equipment are supplied.