Caretaker - Facilities Management
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £11.78 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | SEAHAM, County Durham, SR7 7TT |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Durham 1000545814897565 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Caretaker - Facilities Management
Reference no: Durham 1000545814897565
Pay rate: £11.78 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday to Friday, morning or evening shifts on rota
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: SEAHAM, County Durham
A Caretaker is required to work on a shift pattern with the team delivering Caretaker Services to sites and to help create and maintain a clean, attractive and safe place to live.
Key responsibilities:
Provide a high standard of cleanliness within multi-storey blocks to the published service standards.
Carry out compliance checks to support the Council’s requirements in relation to Health and Safety and Fire Safety of the building.
Play a key role in ensuring the security of the building and surrounding areas. Reporting any evidence of antisocial behaviour in the block and surrounding area. Initiating action to deal with vandalism or emergency situations and contact the appropriate services.
Report repairs and maintenance required to communal and external areas to the appropriate services.
Carry out minor repairs e.g. changing light bulbs and redecoration, e.g. paint over graffiti when required.
Routine manual handling skills, including the rotation of refuse bins.
Verify credentials of official visitors such as those making deliveries or acting on behalf of public utilities.
Accompany Neighbourhood Housing Officer on new visits and accompanied viewings when required.
Carry out visits to new tenants advising them of relevant information about their block, the role of the caretaker, including the services they can provide.
Have responsibility to enhance grounds maintenance provided by other agencies including litter picking external areas of the block, footpaths and gullies.
Work closely with other Council sections and external agencies to achieve a clean, attractive and safe place to live in blocks.
Provide a first point of contact for residents and visitors and be able to deal with queries or signpost to the appropriate service.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Clean driving licence.
Experience & Skills:
Knowledge of Health & Safety.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Ability to carry out cleaning duties.
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Full Driving licence
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Job Ref: Durham 1000545814897565
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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