Clearance and Cleaning Operative

Housing Group; Lowton Common; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension (employer match)

Medicash health plan

GP access 24/7

Additional holiday days

Volunteer day

Discount scheme

Gym membership discounts

Cinema ticket discounts

Job summary

Your Housing Group is seeking a Clearance and Cleaning Operative to support our Repairs and Maintenance Division across the North West region. The role is 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with travel within the Northwest and occasional meetings at our Birchwood Head Office in Warrington.

The successful candidate will carry out clearance, cleaning and light gardening tasks, with emphasis on delivering outstanding customer service, working safely and collaboratively with the team.

Qualifications

• Have a full UK Driving License (ideally no more than 6 points)
• Experience delivering services in a customer-focused environment
• Be resilient, flexible and enthusiastic
• Knowledge of Environmental Cleaning sectors and best practice

Responsibilities

• Undertake property clearance and Empty Homes cleaning work
• Undertake training to complete Full Environmental Clearance works and needle sweeps
• Low maintenance gardening tasks
• Support a customer-focused service with a positive attitude
• Attend meetings and training at Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington as required
• Collaborate with the Repairs and Maintenance team to deliver quality service

Skills

Driving license

Customer service

Flexible

Team player

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clearance and Cleaning Operative to join Your Housing Groups Repairs and Maintenance Division, covering all areas across the North West region. Working for a Housing Association can be extremely rewarding, and we are lucky to have a hugely collaborative team of operatives, throughout all Trade professions, who work together to ensure that our customers are safe and warm in their homes. What will my working week look like? This role is 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You will live within the Northwest, to be able to cover all regions. You will also need to live within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington to attend meetings and training courses when needed. What will I be responsible for doing? As a Clearance & Cleaning Operative, you will….

Job Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Undertake property clearance & Empty Homes cleaning work
• Undertake relevant training to complete the Full Environmental Clearance works & needle sweeps throughout
• Low maintenance gardening works
• Experience of delivering services in a customer focused environment
• Be passionate about going the extra mile to provide an outstanding customer service., To be a successful as a Clearance and Cleaning Operative here at YHG, you will have….
• You will have a full UK Driving License (ideally no more than 6 points)
• Knowledge of the Environmental Cleaning sectors and industry best practice
• Basic health and safety knowledge in a repair's environment
• Be resilient, flexible, and enthusiastic.
• Be Innovative and creative in your ways of working.
• Collaborative team player
• Passionate about right first time and delivering a quality service

Company Overview

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford. As one of the North's sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by building over 100 new homes a year and continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties, tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our Repairs and Maintenance teams play a huge part in delivering these services to our customers. We're an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'. As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

Benefits

In return we offer £27,976 per annum for a 40-hour week, and 23 days annual leave (holidays continue to increase with time served) plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas & New Year, plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance. On top of this, we'll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn't just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments), an option to buy up to one weeks further holiday, an annual volunteering day, and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.