Caretaker

Job Title: Caretaker
Location: Various Location in London Borough of Harrow
Employer: Pertemps Recruitment Partnership for London Borough of Harrow
Contract Type: Temporary
Hours of Work: Monday 08:00 - 17:00 (lunch 13:00 - 14:00), Tuesday -Friday 08:00 - 16:00 (lunch 12:00 - 13:00)
Rate: £16.19 PAYE

Overview of the Role:
Pertemps is offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated and self-driven Caretaker to join the expanding team at London Borough of Harrow. This role offers a competitive pay rate of up to £16.19 per hour, along with excellent training, career development support, and 21 days of holiday (excluding Bank Holidays).

Main Responsibilities:

• Ensure all communal lighting is operational and effective, including changing light bulbs and adjusting time clocks as needed.
• Maintain the cleanliness of all internal communal areas within buildings.
• Check the operation of trade buttons on main door entry phone systems and report any defects to the housing office.
• Inspect and clean play areas and external areas of community centres to ensure safety for users and report any broken equipment.
• Remove litter, rubbish, and other items that create an unfavourable impression, such as weeds, from all communal housing land.
• Maintain a safe environment on all housing land.
• Monitor the use of community centres to ensure user safety and protect Council assets, including checking heating, hot water, and fire equipment, and setting up tables and chairs as necessary.

The successful Caretaker will have:

• Knowledge of cleaning techniques.
• The ability to work on their own initiative.
• Experience in dealing with the public in frontline service delivery, with a proven record of providing courteous and helpful service.

About us:
For almost 60 years, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership have been the market leader in providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions and we are one of the most established players within the recruitment industry. The Sunday Times has listed us as one of the Best 100 Companies to work for 14 years running. We are not a big scary faceless company, quite the opposite: we strongly believe in the personal touch with everything we do. We are proud to be accredited 'investor in people' which is reflected across our business in length of service and career progression of our employees.

London Borough of Harrow is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn