Estate Assistant
- The Guinness Partnership
- Full Time
- Havant
- £25,095
Job Description
About Us The Guinness Partnership are one of the largest providers of affordable housing and care services in England. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great place to work and be a great business.
Job Description As a Mobile Estate Assistant at Guinness, you will be responsible for providing high quality garden services to several of our housing schemes, predominantly overseeing our schemes in Havant and the surrounding areas.
This exciting opportunity is a full-time, permanent position working 35 hours per week with an offer of a £1000 Welcome Bonus!
Some of the key duties involved are:
- In your role as an Estate Assistant, you'll carry out the ground's maintenance of our communal green spaces.
- Maintain the upkeep of all landscaped areas, ensuring pathways and hard standings are maintained and clear of debris.
- Operate landscaping machinery, ride-on mowers, strimmer's, hedge cutters and blowers.
- Cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external areas well maintained
- Working as part of a team.
- Provide a high-quality service to residents.
- Working outside all year round, working in inclement weather conditions as well as exposure to cold/heat and noise.
- Keep accurate records of your work, sharing best practice and ways of working to improve the service, learning from experience when things don't go to plan.
Work Schedule
Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm with no weekend working.
Requirements
As you will be interacting with our customers and colleagues, we are looking for someone who has good customer service skills with the ability to work both within a team and on your own. You will also have:
- Experience in grounds maintenance or landscaping and communal cleaning - ideally two years' experience recently.
- Ideally, hold an NPTC qualification in brush cutter (strimmer), pedestrian mower, ride on mower, hedge cutter and PA1 and PA6 in spraying pesticides (not essential - training is available where required)
- Have a good understanding of health and safety, COSHH requirements.
- Have basic IT knowledge and comfortable using mobile devices (training will be provided)
- Be punctual and a positive attitude.
- Full clean driving licence.
- Build effective relationships based on trust and respect and be a great ambassador for The Guinness Partnership
Desirable
NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Horticulture or equivalent
PA1, PA4b & PA6 NPTC Certificates
What we can offer youWe offer an excellent benefits package that help make The Guinness Partnership a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
- Competitive pay £25,095 per annum
- £1000 Welcome Bonus
- 35 hours per week, Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm
- Helping to save for your future! Guinness will contribute up to 9% towards your pension a matched basis.
- Excellent lifestyle benefits portal including cycle to work scheme and fantastic discounts at supermarkets and many other shops, on-line retailers & leisure activities.
- Healthcare cashback plan
- Employee Assistance Programme, plus more!
To find out more about the key responsibilities for the role and to ensure that you meet the essential criteria, please review the role profile.
We are offering a Welcome Bonus is payable in 2 parts. £500 is paid in your first month's salary and £500 is paid when you pass your probation. To be eligible for the Welcome Bonus you must be an external applicant and not currently employed by The Guinness Partnership INDTGP
