Relief Caretaker North East

Overview

Title:

Relief Caretaker

Contract Type:
Permanent, full time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £27,860 per annum (London weighted salary)

Grade: 2

Reporting Office:
London, Stratford

Working

Location:

North and North East London (covering various sites across this region)

Persona:
Site Based Worker:
Contractual hours to be worked from allocated site(s), with ad hoc office attendance as required

Working Pattern:
Monday to Friday 08:00 – 16:00

Closing Date:
Wednesday 4th February at 11pm

Interview Dates:
Tuesday 17th February

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Please note that having a UK manual drivers licence is mandatory. Candidates should mention that they have a full licence within their supporting statement

* Previous Applicants May Not Apply* - (if prior applications were regretted within 12 weeks)

Benefits include:
Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Please  for the role profile - Caretaker Role Profile.docx

Join our Estate Services Team at L&Q. We are looking for a Relief Caretaker to join our team in Estate Services on a permanent basis. This is a key function of our continuing commitment to providing a responsive customer-based service for our residents.

The Relief Caretaking Team cover for our caretaker’s annual leave, extended sickness and vacancies.

Whilst we are primarily looking for cover in the East and North East areas of London, you will on occasion, be asked to cover in any of the neighbouring areas. The post holder could be asked to work across all 4 of the L&Q operational regions London wide. As such, you will need excellent organisational skills/time management and enjoy working across a variety of sites.

Your impact in the role:

• You must be able to carry out a variety of Caretaking tasks including Health and Safety checks, cleaning, rota management, and small repairs. If you have trade skills or DIY experience, gardening experience it would be an advantage.
• Although the role is predominately lone working under your own initiative, you should also be able to work effectively as part of a team as some sites have more than one caretaker.
• If you are willing to learn, have good decision making skills and can work under pressure, have ambition, enthusiasm, and care about delivering first class service to our residents we would like to hear from you.
• You will be involved in maintaining communal areas within our blocks and on our estates, carrying out communal cleaning, grounds maintenance work, carrying out small maintenance repairs as well as and having due regard to health & safety and security issues.

• You must be a good communicator and able have basic Word & Excel skills as we use these programmes frequently, alongside other digital technology. To submit weekly reports, participate in Ms Teams meetings, undertake online courses and assessments.
• It is an essential requirement that you have a good standard of literacy, You will need to be willing to learn new skills as the service adapts to the changing needs within the Neighbourhoods.
• You will often be working alone and therefore need to be able to work on your own initiative and be self motivated to organise your own time effectively.
• You will need to be proactive in your daily activities and have a good understanding of safe working practices. Practical Health and Safety experience is essential.
• You must hold a full, clean manual driving licence (L&Q operates a manual Fleet) and it’s essential that you have access to secure overnight parking if issued a company vehicle. L&Q does not provide resident permits.

* The 35 Hour week begins when drivers arrive at site and ends when they leave. As with normal employment practice, staff are not paid to travel to work. Specific hours of working will be discussed at the interview.

DBS

For this post the successful candidate will need to apply for or be in possession of an Basic Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) to enable them to work within the team. For further information about the Disclosure Barring Service please visit

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email