About the role

An opportunity has arisen in the Sheltered Housing team for a caretaker. Responsible for the general maintenance and upkeep of the communal areas in our sheltered schemes.

What will you be doing?

• Responsible for general site security
• Reporting repairs and maintenance issues
• Carrying out general basic maintenance
• Ensuring that on site health and safety inspections are completed, including testing of fire and smoke alarms

About you

We are looking for someone with good customer service skills and a compassionate but firm approach. You will have good organisational skills and a valid UK driving licence. Caretaking experience or basic handyperson skills to complete domestic repairs is essential.

Our benefits

Here at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people. You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think! Why choose us? We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours define who we are and how we operate. They are: Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive, Trustworthy. We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 and holds silver status for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

Attached documents

• Caretaker JD.pdf