Estate Cleaner Caretaker
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £31,158 to £33,987 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 December 2025 |
| Location: | Kingston Upon Thames, South West London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Kingston Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3794 |
Summary
About the Role and our Ideal Candidate
The role reports directly to the CRE Estate Manager and forms part of a team that is responsible for ensuring that the council's housing estates are tidy, litter free, clean, safe and assisting in keeping the communal areas in a good state of repair.
Working hours (including an unpaid lunch break) are:
7.30am - 3.45 pm - Monday - Thursday
7:30am - 3:30pm Friday
And a uniform and all equipment are supplied
About You
In order to successfully deliver the responsibilities of the role, you will need to:
Question and challenge ways of working, with an understanding of the bigger picture in terms of the corporate context and external environment
Demonstrate agility and adaptability in mind set and ways of working
Work successfully with key stakeholders within and outside of the Council
Demonstrate commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role
Demonstrate innovation and creativity
Actively engage in positive cross organisational communications and team working
Communicate clearly, confidently and appropriately with colleagues using the best methods of communication for the task.
You understand the importance of health and safety in relation to the caretaking of social housing and housing estates.
You have knowledge and experience of cleaning or caretaking, ideally in a social housing/commercial setting
Operates effectively in an environment that requires work outdoors in all weathers,includes potential exposure to hazardous substances, manual handling of heavy objects.
Able to use a smartphone/basic IT databases
Ability to carry out a range of basic maintenance tasks
You have experience of deep cleaning and use of specialist cleaning equipment and machinery. - Desirable
Ability to drive a motor vehicle as and when required
Hold a current full uk driving license (Desirable)
About Us
The CRE Estate Services Team is a multidisciplinary team looking after 3 of the councils housing estates (Cambridge Road Estate, Cambridge Gardens and Arun House) located in Kingston The range of services the team will deliver are: Block Cleaning, Deep Cleaning, Bulk/Graffiti, Removal, Minor Communal Repairs and responding to other estate issues.
The role reports directly to the CRE Estate Manager and forms part of a team that is responsible for ensuring that the council's housing estates are tidy, litter free, clean, safe and assisting in keeping the communal areas in a good state of repair.
Working hours (including an unpaid lunch break) are:
7.30am - 3.45 pm - Monday - Thursday
7:30am - 3:30pm Friday
And a uniform and all equipment are supplied
About You
In order to successfully deliver the responsibilities of the role, you will need to:
Question and challenge ways of working, with an understanding of the bigger picture in terms of the corporate context and external environment
Demonstrate agility and adaptability in mind set and ways of working
Work successfully with key stakeholders within and outside of the Council
Demonstrate commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role
Demonstrate innovation and creativity
Actively engage in positive cross organisational communications and team working
Communicate clearly, confidently and appropriately with colleagues using the best methods of communication for the task.
You understand the importance of health and safety in relation to the caretaking of social housing and housing estates.
You have knowledge and experience of cleaning or caretaking, ideally in a social housing/commercial setting
Operates effectively in an environment that requires work outdoors in all weathers,includes potential exposure to hazardous substances, manual handling of heavy objects.
Able to use a smartphone/basic IT databases
Ability to carry out a range of basic maintenance tasks
You have experience of deep cleaning and use of specialist cleaning equipment and machinery. - Desirable
Ability to drive a motor vehicle as and when required
Hold a current full uk driving license (Desirable)
About Us
The CRE Estate Services Team is a multidisciplinary team looking after 3 of the councils housing estates (Cambridge Road Estate, Cambridge Gardens and Arun House) located in Kingston The range of services the team will deliver are: Block Cleaning, Deep Cleaning, Bulk/Graffiti, Removal, Minor Communal Repairs and responding to other estate issues.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.