Caretaker, Cleaning Services, Facility Maintenance

We are recruiting for a Caretaker to join our Caretaking team across a Housing Stock. The successful candidate will join a well established team toensure the security, safety, cleanliness, maintenance, repair, and monitor of communal areas. Along with assisting tenants in offering guidance assistance and advice.

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with tenants and other members of the public, including advising tenants on use of equipment and services provided.
• Promote and implement the Councils equal opportunities policies and practices in relation to employment and services.
• Attendance at evening and day meeting when requested.
• Contribute to the development of self and others within the role. To include attending relevant training courses and participating in team meetings.
• Contribute to the maintenance of a healthy safe and a secure environment including carrying out estate inspections and completing minor repair and maintenance in communal areas.
• Carry out cleaning duties to the standard set down by the British Industrial Cleaning Science (BICS).
• Steam Clean communal areas.
• Maintain Health and Safety working practices, complying with all of the Councils Health and Safety polices and procedures.
• This position is very much self motivated and the Post holder will work under minimum supervision.
• Maintain security of premises and contents within the area of responsibility.
• Carry out Fob Programming.
• Record all incidents and emergencies in the diary and on a computer system
• Monitor and record maintenance, cleaning work undertaken by contractors on site.
• Maintain computer record and input details into records
• Update data bases, complete records of incidents.

• Carry out / complete manual tasks
• Follow policies and procedures
• Complete tasks.
• Contribute to the work of the Neighbourhood Service Team
• Carry out duties from a step ladder / steps
• Communicate with tenants verbally
• Numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to build effective working relationship with managers, staff and residents.
• Able to enthuse and motivate people.
• Adaptable and flexible approach that will meet the service demands.
• Attend meetings outside of normal hours.
• Able to build trust and confidence

• Industrial grade cleaning duties.
• Working on their own initiative and being a team player.
• Knowledge of building maintenance.
• Knowledge and experience of caretaking duties.
• To be able to offer excellent customer services.
• Interpersonal skills required to resolve resident issues
• Basic computer skills
• Working with steam cleaners
• High & low speed polishers, wet and dry VAX
• Experience of

• Full driving licence required
• British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc).
• Knowledge of COSSH (full training provided).