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Estate Services Officer

Job Description

Service Care Solutions have a vacancy for an Estates Service Officer to join local authority based out of Islington, North London.

This is a full time temporary opportunity for someone with looking for future growth.

Key responsibilities will include the:

Management and Supervision

  • Manage a team of caretakers ensuring estates are maintained to the highest quality
  • To be a motivational leader - coaching, inspiring, supporting and guiding your team to achieve their personal and service objectives
  • To develop a thorough knowledge of caretaker tasks and frequencies, Council HR procedures and relevant legislation and be able to implement these
  • Effectively manage performance
  • To ensure that appropriate staffing levels are maintained
  • To ensure caretaker lodges and welfare facilities are compliant with relevant health and safety regulations
  • To ensure caretakers order the appropriate levels of cleaning products, and they have adequate supplies to carry out duties
  • To provide caretaker supervision on a rota basis at weekends
  • To assist as required in the measurement of caretaker workloads
  • To have oversight of accurate records relating to caretakers storage and maintenance of machinery, materials and equipment
  • Have an oversight of audit records for caretaker stores

Service Delivery

  • To regularly inspect and monitor the estate services
  • To ensure health and safety related tasks, including fire safety inspections and fire risk assessments actions are conducted and completed within target times
  • Ensure the effective identification, ordering and tracking to completion, of all communal repairs, including urgent H&S and emergency repairs
  • To respond to emergencies and to provide assistance to residents, emergency services, utility companies etc
  • To work collaboratively with the Tenancy and Community Safety teams, Police and Special Project Teams to help address anti social behaviour
  • To liaise with Tenancy Management on matters relating to the general tenancy conditions including breaches
  • To be proactive and work in partnership with the Community Development Team and other agencies
  • Collaboratively work with other Council teams and partner agencies when dealing with multi-faceted or complex issues
  • To act as the link with Tenant Management Organisations
  • To liaise with Tenants and Residents Associations (TRAs), leaseholder groups, Tenant Management Organisations and other bodies, on matters relevant to the estate
  • To carry out periodical joint inspections of all estates within your management area
  • To present your ideas for service improvements
  • Develop a thorough knowledge of the communities and neighbourhoods served
  • To make recommendations for the improvement of communal areas and estates grounds
  • To provide well-composed, factually and grammatically correct responses
  • To provide concise, factually correct and polite responses to verbal enquiries from Council staff, residents and other agencies
  • To produce estate development plans, including proposals for improvement
  • To maintain your estate performance reports, keep accurate records for all areas of your work and produce these when required by management
  • To use the agreed IT systems provided for recording information in relation to caretaking and fire safety inspections and other work streams as required, including any new IT systems as introduced
  • To undertake other duties commensurate to the grade of the post as directed by management

For further information on this role and to apply, please contact Prakash by emailing prakash.panchani@servicecare.org.uk or call 01772 208967.