Communal Cleaner (Estate Services Operative)

Castles & Coasts Housing Association (CCHA) is currently looking to recruit several full time Estates Services Operatives / Communal Cleaners (40 hours per week), on a permanent basis, working across Cumbria, based from our Workington office.

If you are looking for an exciting new role, this is a great opportunity to join the CCHA Team.

We recruit not just on existing skills and experience, but just as importantly on potential and attitude. We encourage applications even if you don’t feel you meet all of the essential criteria in the job pack.

The impact you will have as an Operative:

As an estates team operative, you will be part of a professional and customer focused team and will have responsibility for providing an efficient and effective service to all our customers.

You will be carrying out works that take place in communal areas of all of the grounds and estates managed by CCHA. This could be ensuring that they are safe, tidy and clean for every-day use, it could be ensuring the communal areas have adequate health and safety checks, it could be doing the fire and smoke alarm tests to ensure peoples homes are safe.

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll be the primary conduit for any communal maintenance, safety and clearance work in residents' homes.

You may at times be called upon to help the Empty Homes teams in ensuring once someone’s tenancy has ended the homes are brought back up to a lettable standard.

We strive to have a first-time fix attitude, with keeping the ideal of everyone having a safe home.

A little about you:

• We’re looking for someone who has experience of working in an outdoors communal based setting, ideally with some exposure to properties with residents’ living in the homes that you work in.
• You must have a current, valid full driving license.
• You must have experience of working in an outdoor based role specifically as part of a team.
• Someone who is able to respond positively to emergency job requests.
• You should be confident working independently, self-managing tasks on each job and able to record the outputs of your work upon completion of each job.
• It would be advantageous if you have any experience or exposure to a social housing setting.

A little about us:

CCHA owns and manages more than 7,400 homes across the North of England in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and North Lancashire. As an Association, we focus on the needs of the local communities we serve, tackling the housing crisis, improving services within our communities, and use our strength and efficiency to meet housing service needs. We are committed to providing excellent services to our customers.

What next:

Closing date for applications: Sunday 27th September.

Interviews to be held from: Wednesday 30th September.