Housing Caretaker

Job details

Package Permanent, Full-Time, 36 hours per week.

Location:

Coates Walk Depot, Burford Road, Brentford, TW8 0LU
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We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Mobile Caretaker – Caretaking Team. In this role you will travel between a range of designated sites, carrying out cleaning and caretaking duties within communal areas and ensuring high standards across our estates.

You will be part of our dedicated Caretaking Team within Housing Estates Services. The team works closely with colleagues across Housing, Grounds Maintenance and our Repairs Service to quickly identify and resolve estate issues.

• Carry out cleaning and caretaking duties to a good standard, helping to maintain tidy, safe and well-presented communal areas, using digital platforms to record work.
• Work well as part of a team and collaborate with colleagues across housing and repairs services.
• Communicate with residents and colleagues, responding positively to feedback.
• Follow procedures and work safely, with awareness of health and safety requirements such as COSHH and fire safety.
• Be reliable, organized and manage workload across different sites, adapting to changing priorities when needed.
• Travel between locations and carry out physical aspects of the role, including working outdoors and handling equipment.

Basic DBS.