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About the Role
Outward is seeking a full-time Caretaker/Handy Person to join their central caretaking team. This role is crucial for providing a high-quality intensive housing management service, ensuring residents can sustain their tenancies and that their homes are safe, clean, and tidy.
Responsibilities
- Provide an excellent caretaker service, ensuring properties are left safe, clean, and tidy after works.
- Manage and plan daily activities to optimize time.
- Conduct regular health and safety checks and tests.
- Complete documented property inspections as required.
- Complete all relevant training.
- Provide caretaker support to older people's services.
- Carry out maintenance tasks safely and with practical ability.
- Travel across multiple sites within a broad geographical area.
- Adapt to changing duties or priorities.
Requirements
- Basic DIY or trade skills (plumbing, carpentry, electrical, painting).
- Experience using hand tools and light machinery.
- Right to work in the UK.
- Clean UK Driving Licence.
- Access to a smartphone capable of receiving SMS messages and installing authentication apps.
- At least one year's experience in a similar role.
- Ability to carry out maintenance tasks safely and with practical ability.
- A can-do attitude towards residents and colleagues.
- Full DBS check will be completed before a final job offer.
Skills
- Basic DIY skills
- Basic trade skills
- Plumbing
- Carpentry
- Electrical
- Painting
- Using hand tools
- Using light machinery
- Time management
- Communication
- IT literacy for logging maintenance issues or using facility management systems (Desirable)
- Health & Safety awareness (Desirable)
Location
- Various
Work Type
- Full Time Permanent
Experience Level
- At least one year’s experience in a similar role
Salary/Compensations
- £27,368 Per annum
Benefits
- Comprehensive Learning and Development Programme
- Pension Scheme
- Cycle‑to‑Work Scheme
- Blue Light Discounts Card
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Flu Jab Reimbursement
- Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
- Option to purchase additional annual leave
- Refer‑a‑Friend Scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Discounted holidays at Nutley Edge Cottages
- Credit Union Scheme
- Outward Computing Scheme
- Death in Service Benefit
- Company van provided
About the Company
- For 50 years, Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people across London, predominantly in North and East London.
- Established by families seeking alternatives to institutional care, Outward has grown into a respected provider of person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs and complex needs.
- Outward supports over 1,000 people across nine boroughs, guided by core values: engage, enable and empower.
- Outward works in partnership with individuals and their families to promote choice, control and inclusion.
- Outward is proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer, committed to paying the Real Living Wage.
- The Real Living Wage is updated annually by the Living Wage Foundation, and Outward remains committed to aligning pay accordingly.
- Outward’s Supported Housing Department provides a high-quality intensive housing management service that supports residents to sustain their tenancies.
- Outward works with a number of registered housing providers, with Newlon Housing Trust as the principal landlord, managing properties across several London Boroughs.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- Outward applies its Equal Opportunities Policy at all stages of recruitment and selection.
- Shortlisting, interviewing and selection is carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age or trade union membership.
- As an employer, who aspire to become Disability Confident Committed, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.
- Outward is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff to share this commitment.