Caretaker

Outward Housing; London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected housing support provider is seeking a full-time and part-time Caretaker to join their central team in London. The role involves maintaining safety and cleanliness across properties, conducting health checks, and ensuring a quality service for residents. Essential skills include basic DIY, communication, and a proactive attitude towards maintenance tasks. A clean driving licence and the ability to travel across sites in London are required.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering an excellent property maintenance service.
• Right to work in the UK.
• Clean UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide an excellent caretaker service to all customers.
• Carry out regular health and safety checks.
• Manage and plan your day to optimize time.

Skills

Excellent communication

Basic DIY or trade skills

Time management

Health & Safety awareness

Tools

Hand tools

Light machinery

Job description

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For 50 years, Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people across London, predominantly in North East London. Established by families seeking alternatives to institutional care, we’ve grown into a respected provider of person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, and complex needs. We support over 1,000 people across nine boroughs, guided by our core values: engage, enable, and empower.

Outward’s Supported Housing Department provide a high quality intensive housing management service that supports our residents to sustain their tenancies. We work with a number of registered housing providers, our principal landlord being Newlon Housing Trust, for whom outward manage properties across in several London Boroughs.

An exciting opportunity has now arisen for 1 x full time and 1 x part-time Caretaker to join the central caretaking team.

• Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and conscientious individual?
• Do you care about the wellbeing of vulnerable people and want to ensure their homes are safe?
• Do you have experience of delivering an excellent property maintenance service?
• Are you an excellent communicator?
• Can you manage your own time efficiently? And yet are happy to be part of a team dedicated to our residents.

Requirements

• Provide an excellent caretaker service to all Outward customers, ensuring that once works are carried out, the property is left safe, clean and tidy.
• Managing and planning your day to ensure you optimise your time.
• Carrying out regular health and safety checks and tests.
• Carrying out documented property inspections where required.
• To complete all relevant training.
• Providing caretaker support to our old peoples’ services.
• 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

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel across multiple sites within a broad geographical area
• Adaptable to changing duties or priorities
• Previous caretaking or maintenance experience (e.g., in a residential building, or healthcare setting)
• IT literacy for logging maintenance issues or using facility management systems
• Health & Safety training or awareness (e.g., COSHH, risk assessments)

The successful applicant will have at least one year’s experience in a similar role and have the ability to carry out maintenance tasks safely and with practical ability, having a can-do attitude towards our residents and colleagues. Because of the requirement to work alone with vulnerable adults, a full DBS check will be completed before a final job offer can be made.