Job Description

About the role

Would you like to join our Estates Team as an Estates Assistant responsible for cleaning and gardening? We have a new full time, permanent opportunity working 35 hours per week Monday to Friday, covering Basingstoke and the surrounding areas.

In this role, you will help us to deliver an excellent estate services for our residents.

As a mobile Estate Assistant at Guinness, you will be responsible for providing high quality grounds maintenance and cleaning services across several housing schemes. As you will be interacting with our customers and colleagues, we are looking for someone with good customer service skills and the ability to work both as part of a team and independently.

You will be able to demonstrate these essential skills:

• Proven professional experience of delivering grounds maintenance across a variety of sites and garden types.

• Experience and knowledge of lawn, shrub, and plant care.

• Proven experience of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction.

• Ability to conduct physical tasks within Health and Safety guidelines.

• Able to work effectively within a team.

• Ability to use all equipment safely and effectively.

• Ability to work effectively without high levels of supervision.

• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, including COSHH and PPE.

• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.

Desirable skills:

• An understanding of how to use mobile working devices, e.g. tablets.

• Knowledge and experience of the safe and regulatory use of horticultural fungicides and pesticides.

Desirable qualifications:

• NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Horticulture or equivalent.

• PA1, PA4b & PA6 NPTC Certificates.

If you are interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile.

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The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for nearly 160,000 residents 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 residents, 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.