Outward Housing
Caretaker/Handy Person - Supported Housing Services - North East London
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Caretaker Role
Role: Caretaker / Handyman (Full Time Permanent)
About the Role
Contract: 38 hours per week, starting at £27,368 per annum
Location: Various (Must hold a full, clean UK driving licence) Company van provided
Outward, a 50-year-old organisation, provides high-quality support and care services across London’s North and East boroughs. Originally founded by families looking for alternatives to institutional care, we now support over 1,000 vulnerable individuals, including those with learning disabilities, autism, mental health challenges, and complex needs.
Our Supported Housing Department delivers intensive housing management in partnership with housing providers—primarily Newlon Housing Trust—ensuring our residents' stable tenancies are sustained.
Now, we’re recruiting a motivated Caretaker/Handyman to join our central caretaking team.Ideal candidates will show enthusiasm, professionalism, and a genuine commitment to ensuring safe living environments for our residents.
Are you an self-driven individual who cares about property maintenance, safety, and teamwork?
Key Responsibilities
- Providing a first-class caretaker service, ensuring all properties are safe, clean, and well-maintained
- Managing and planning your schedule efficiently while adapting to evolving priorities
- Conducting regular health & safety inspections—including property checks and necessary record-keeping
- Ocean planting light DIY and maintenance tasks
- Plumbing, carpentry, electrical work, painting
- Use of hand tools and light machinery
- Supporting Outward’s older adult services
- Completing essential training and health & safety compliance
- ** dilemma ensuring all on duty, follow protocol for documentation**
- Representing Outward and ensuring a positive experience for residents
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Requirements
Essential
- Right to work in the UK (No visa sponsorship offered)
- Full, unmedled clean U.K. Driving Licence
- Mobile phone access (capable of receiving SMS codes and installing authentication apps for secure systems)
- Ability to work independently and alone with vulnerable adults
- Strong ability to manage time effectively
- Prior year of maintenance, caretaking, or related experience
- At examing work (e.g., camaraderie at 49 years, awareness of hand tools)
No prior experience?This what is needed.
Desirable
- Previous experience in a similar residential or healthcare-based setting
- IT literacy—logging maintenance issues or using facility management software
- Health & Safety training (COSHH, risk assessments, etc.)
Expected Work Environment
- Requires frequent travel across multiple sites
- Open fixed hours with adaptability to unexpected requests
- A disability support conscious environment.
Application & Process
Applications will be reviewed until the role is filled (no fixed closing date). DBS check will run before a consummation of offer—this applies whether for *med provision or independent assessment.
To apply: Submit a CV + supporting statement, detailing how your experience aligns with responsibilities. This set should indicate an understanding of your ability to fit smoothly.
Competitive Benefits
As a Living Wage employer, we pay fair above the minimum (*aligned with the Real Living Wage standard updates).
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In addition, you’ll enjoy:
Professional Development
- Comprehensive Learning & Development Programme
- Access to career progression pipelines
Cultural Benefits
- Pension Scheme
- Cycle-To-Work Scheme
- Exclusive discounts (Blue Light Saver Card, flu jabs, eye care vouchers)
- Supporting mental wellbeing via a Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
- Option to for take additional leave—including sharing the Refer-A-Friend Scheme
Lifetime of returns includes
Awards
- *Nutlé Edge Holidays Discounts
- Credit Union Scheme
Long Service Awards SINAPPS - Disability Confidence (OOI for those [qualified/applicants])
Outward also recognises sacrifice & loyalty with benefits like support, an emergency response scheme.
Diversity and Safeguarding
We are fully committed to fostering an bias driven workplace.
Outward is fully Disability Confident Committed, actively offering interview opportunities where fit or scenario requires.
All measures here are **relevant to all systems employees interval.", Our autonomy and now able to establish their confidence preference system wastes needed.
Outward’s Safeguarding Policy instructs that all staff have a equal part of safeguarding, as well with working adults with access to facilities.
Once recruited at final stages, we participate in GAS training for applicable staff.
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For further information, do contact us through the Human Resources (HR) channel.
This description contains no exhaustive representation, but points of interest for more detail will be discussed during interviews.
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