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Caretaker (Sc4)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Ionawr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £16.36 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Chwefror 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Islington, North London |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | VEESUPPORTSERVICES LTD |
| Math o swydd: | Dros dro |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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Job description
Post title: Caretaker
Service area: Homes and Neighbourhoods
Grade: Scale 4
Reports to: Estate Service Co-Ordinator
Your team: Homes & Communities, Neighbourhood Services Estate Services
Our ambition
We're determined to make Islington fairer. To create a place where everyone, whatever their background, has the opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy a good quality of life.
We also have an ambitious goal – to be the best council in the country – with every employee clear about the part they play and inspired, focused and supported to give their very best.
We want to build an organisation where employees feel valued, inspired and empowered to help us achieve our goals and provide the best services possible to our residents.
Our values and behaviours
‘Be Islington’ is about setting a clear challenge about what it means to be an Islington employee and sets the standard for every new recruit.
We ask our employees to ‘Be Islington’ – playing their part in working together for a fairer borough and to always be collaborative, be ambitious, be resourceful, and be empowering (‘CARE’).
Our commitment to challenging inequality
We are committed to tackling inequality, racism and injustice and creating a fairer borough for all. In order to do this, we need to set the example by being a fair employer and creating a workplace environment, which is free from discrimination, racism and inequality. Our approach needs to be proactive, consistently learning to create a fairer workplace and foster a culture, which empowers all staff to challenge inequality.
Fairness is at the heart of what we do. We want to celebrate and embrace our differences by:
• Ensuring our workforce is representative of the people we work on behalf of, our residents
• Creating equitable working environments and diverse teams
• Understanding our residents in order to design and deliver services that help tackle inequality and improve life chances for our residents
• Getting to know people and their differences
• Interpreting issues and concerns from a cultural perspective and address situations or problems from the points-of-view of multiple cultures
• Supporting people with long-term health conditions and/or disabilities
• Recognising the value of flexible working to support staff where possible
Key responsibilities
To undertake caretaker duties including cleaning and other estate duties in partnership with the needs of residents and in accordance with management direction. Working flexibly, alone, or with other caretakers to provide an excellent caretaker service on estates as circumstances require.
1. Reporting to the Estate Services Co-ordinator (ESC) and the Quality Assurance Officers (QAOs) who assist the ESC in caretaker management. Also liaising with management and staff at the Area Offices.
2. The completion of daily management control information and other documentation as required.
3. Keeping records of complaints made by tenants and reporting cases of fire, burglary, flood and other important incidents to the Area Office / Housing Department as required.
4. Reporting contravening of tenancy regulations by tenants.
5. Reporting of abandoned vehicles/illegal parking on the estates and liaising with Estate Service Officers and contractors as necessary.
6. Maintaining the lighting of communal areas.
7. Keeping keys for communal parts, meter cupboard, vacant dwellings, vacant pram sheds, etc.
8. Taking appropriate action in respect of repairs or damage in cases of emergency, including the calling out of police, fire and ambulance services etc. during normal working hours.
9. To maintain clean and tidy assigned lodges at the allocated patches.
10. Custody of an overall responsibility for the estate stores, tools, plant and equipment at the allocated patch.
Post title: Caretaker
Service area: Homes and Neighbourhoods
Grade: Scale 4
Reports to: Estate Service Co-Ordinator
Your team: Homes & Communities, Neighbourhood Services Estate Services
Our ambition
We're determined to make Islington fairer. To create a place where everyone, whatever their background, has the opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy a good quality of life.
We also have an ambitious goal – to be the best council in the country – with every employee clear about the part they play and inspired, focused and supported to give their very best.
We want to build an organisation where employees feel valued, inspired and empowered to help us achieve our goals and provide the best services possible to our residents.
Our values and behaviours
‘Be Islington’ is about setting a clear challenge about what it means to be an Islington employee and sets the standard for every new recruit.
We ask our employees to ‘Be Islington’ – playing their part in working together for a fairer borough and to always be collaborative, be ambitious, be resourceful, and be empowering (‘CARE’).
Our commitment to challenging inequality
We are committed to tackling inequality, racism and injustice and creating a fairer borough for all. In order to do this, we need to set the example by being a fair employer and creating a workplace environment, which is free from discrimination, racism and inequality. Our approach needs to be proactive, consistently learning to create a fairer workplace and foster a culture, which empowers all staff to challenge inequality.
Fairness is at the heart of what we do. We want to celebrate and embrace our differences by:
• Ensuring our workforce is representative of the people we work on behalf of, our residents
• Creating equitable working environments and diverse teams
• Understanding our residents in order to design and deliver services that help tackle inequality and improve life chances for our residents
• Getting to know people and their differences
• Interpreting issues and concerns from a cultural perspective and address situations or problems from the points-of-view of multiple cultures
• Supporting people with long-term health conditions and/or disabilities
• Recognising the value of flexible working to support staff where possible
Key responsibilities
To undertake caretaker duties including cleaning and other estate duties in partnership with the needs of residents and in accordance with management direction. Working flexibly, alone, or with other caretakers to provide an excellent caretaker service on estates as circumstances require.
1. Reporting to the Estate Services Co-ordinator (ESC) and the Quality Assurance Officers (QAOs) who assist the ESC in caretaker management. Also liaising with management and staff at the Area Offices.
2. The completion of daily management control information and other documentation as required.
3. Keeping records of complaints made by tenants and reporting cases of fire, burglary, flood and other important incidents to the Area Office / Housing Department as required.
4. Reporting contravening of tenancy regulations by tenants.
5. Reporting of abandoned vehicles/illegal parking on the estates and liaising with Estate Service Officers and contractors as necessary.
6. Maintaining the lighting of communal areas.
7. Keeping keys for communal parts, meter cupboard, vacant dwellings, vacant pram sheds, etc.
8. Taking appropriate action in respect of repairs or damage in cases of emergency, including the calling out of police, fire and ambulance services etc. during normal working hours.
9. To maintain clean and tidy assigned lodges at the allocated patches.
10. Custody of an overall responsibility for the estate stores, tools, plant and equipment at the allocated patch.