Caretaker in Leigh

Would you like to work for a company who is accredited as an outstanding company to work for in Best Companies 2023? Jigsaw Homes Group offers employees a very competitive 24 days holiday per annum, plus 3 days for Christmas closure (5 day working week) plus bank holidays, plus additional days after 2 years continuous service (to a maximum of 5 days). We also offer our employees the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra leave per year. As a Jigsaw employee you will also receive incremental salaried pay, occupational sick pay, access to the Social Housing Pension Scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, BHSF membership, access to on-site gyms and training/development opportunities.

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 37,500 homes across the North West and East Midlands. We provide quality, low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

As one of our established and dedicated maintenance operatives within our team of 600, you will be part of an Asset Management department that prides itself on investing in our own people to deliver a first-class property-based service across the Group. We cover a broad range of disciplines from reactive, planned and grounds maintenance to property refurbishments, estate services, building safety and compliance.

Your ability to get things done quickly and efficiently will help us create clean, safe and attractive communities; ones where our customers can call home. You will take pride in your work to carry out a programme of cleaning and grounds maintenance - both inside buildings and outside of our residents' homes, across the North West but primarily in the Manchester area. You will also be able to liaise well with colleagues and customers alike, to help us keep up effective, positive relationships with our residents, contractors and other partners.

With a good standard of general education and experience in cleaning, grounds maintenance and handyperson duties in some larger properties, you must be able to demonstrate you are able to undertake the physical aspects of the job. This role requires you to have a full, valid UK driving license (points/convictions must be disclosed), access to a vehicle and insurance for business use prior to commencing this role. There may be a requirement to be part of a rota working a small number of weekends per year attending select sites.

If this sounds like the perfect job for you then don't hesitate to apply now! We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.