Estate Assistant
The Guinness Partnership
Havant PO9, UK
Published 5 days ago
Housing / Neighbourhood management
Full time
Job Description
About The Role
As a Mobile Estate Assistant at Guinness, you will be responsible for providing high quality garden services to several of our housing schemes in Havant and the surrounding areas.
This is a full-time, permanent position working 35 hours per week Monday - Friday.
Some of the key duties involved are:
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:
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About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.
The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
About The Role
As a Mobile Estate Assistant at Guinness, you will be responsible for providing high quality garden services to several of our housing schemes in Havant and the surrounding areas.
This is a full-time, permanent position working 35 hours per week Monday - Friday.
Some of the key duties involved are:
- In your role as an Estate Assistant, you'll carry out grounds maintenance of our communal green spaces.
- You will maintain the upkeep of all landscaped areas, ensuring pathways and hard standings are kept clear of debris.
- Operate landscaping machinery, ride-on mowers, strimmers, hedge cutters and blowers.
- Working as part of a team.
- Provide a high-quality service to residents.
- Cleaning internal communal areas and keeping external areas well maintained.
- 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.
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:
- Recent experience in grounds maintenance.
- 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 - as 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 manual driving licence.
- Build effective relationships based on trust and respect and be a great ambassador for The Guinness Partnership.
- NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Horticulture or equivalent
- PA1, PA4b & PA6 NPTC Certificates
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About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.
The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.