Caretaker - Upper Street
$16,360–$32,720 year
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Conduct daily caretaker duties on estate patches, including cleaning communal areas, maintaining shrub beds, and managing estate stores and keys. Report incidents such as fire, burglary, or flood damage to the Area Office and handle complaints regarding tenancy regulations or disrepair. Perform minor repairs to communal areas, control weed growth, and ensure refuse collection and service liaison with contractors. Work rotating weekend shifts between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm, maintaining a paired working arrangement with a colleague. Establish relationships with residents, offering advice to older people and those with disabilities while safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to demonstrate a reasonable standard of literacy and numeracy.
- Some experience of cleaning or caretaking duties (paid/unpaid).
- Ability to carry out cleaning duties, working alone or within teams.
- Ability to deal with complaints of disrepair.
- Ability to negotiate a congenial paired working arrangement with an assigned caretaker.
- Ability to react to and deal with emergency situations, e.g. fire, flood and lift breakdowns.
- Ability to supply brief reports on background and action taken in respect of emergencies or unusual occurrences.
- Ability to take care of estate tools, equipment, keys to various communal facilities and any keys to void properties which may be issued to caretakers from time to time.
- Ability to work rotating shifts and live in accommodation provided (resident caretakers only).
- Ability to work out of doors in all weathers.
- Ability to communicate with tenants to provide necessary advice and assistance.
- Ability to carry out minor communal repairs within Health and Safety Guidelines
- Ability to cope with the physical demands of the job i.e. physically able to lift and move heavy items of equipment, e.g. moving full (wheeled) paladin bins without assistance, and lifting and moving items of household lumber with assistance if necessary
- All resident (or previous resident) caretakers are to work on a number of estates, carrying out core duties at weekends on a rota basis, between the hours of 8.00am and 4.00pm.
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