Estates Labourer

Join our growing Estates Team as a Labourer and build a strong foundation for your career. You'll
use your skills and initiative to ensure that our estates are kept in a clean and safe manor ensuring our customers and colleagues have a healthy environment to live in, supporting in the delivery a proactive and responsive service to our customers and the homes we service.
Working 42.5 hours per week across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, this is a great chance to learn from experts and develop valuable skills while helping improve our communities.

Are you looking to join a growing, values-led organisation with a clear social purpose?

At Settle Paradigm, we’re proud to be the largest housing group in the region, managing over 30,000 homes across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire. Everything we do is about delivering excellent services, high quality homes, neighbourhoods we can be proud of and maximising number of new affordable homes we build. Through our merger we’ve brought together shared values, skills and ambition, so we can build more affordable homes and make an even bigger difference in the communities we serve

If you're ready to grow your career in a supportive, inclusive environment while helping to shape stronger communities, we’d love to welcome you on our journey. Together, we’re building a better future.

The Estate Service team delivers services that affect our land and customer, the team are remote working, often in teams and deliver grounds-maintenance, bulk waste removal and cleaning services throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

• Assist in Cleaning, Grounds maintenance and bulk waste removal service to our customers
• Assist in clearance of land, houses and gardens where required
• Removal of bulk waste will include assisting finding the culprit so that re-charging can be considered
• Work with our customers to ensure estate matters are reported
• Ensure our estates are kept in a presentable and safe manner
• Work closely with colleagues to ensure a brilliant service is offered
• Assist in up-cycling and giving-back days
• Ensure work is delivered in a safe manner and policies are adhered to.
• Other ad-hoc site or customer requirements.
• Work with the team to develop fantastic communal interior areas
• Work with other departments such as voids, assisting in house clearances.

• Experience of labouring in estates
• Experience of Health & Safety at work
• Capacity to work as part of a team
• Must be physically fit enough to carry out manual handling tasks
• Be able to identify risks and hazards and carry out emergency planning
• Be a good communicator

• annual salary: £27,610 per annum
• 25 days holiday, increasing with service, plus Christmas closure and buy options
• Generous pension scheme – up to 9.5% employer contribution via salary sacrifice
• Family-friendly leave:
  Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Health cash plan – claim up to £1,800 for everyday health costs (plus free kids’ cover)
• Life cover and income protection
• Flexible working – hybrid options, modern offices, free parking & EV charging

• Working 42.5 hours, Monday to Friday 8:00 - 17:30

We are committed to creating an inclusive workforce, by reflecting and representing the diversity of the communities we serve. We would like to encourage applications from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds; people who identify as disabled, neurodiverse, members of the LGBTQ+ community and people from underrepresented groups.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. Please let us know in advance of any suitable arrangements required.

Due to the nature of some of our roles involving work with vulnerable members of society, this post may be subject to a basic or enhanced Criminal Disclosure, which will be carried out when a conditional offer is made.

Please ensure you fully answer the questions on the application form.

Closing Date: 17th February 2026

We reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than the closing date should we find a suitable candidate.