Caretaker

About Outward

For 50 years, Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people across London, predominantly in North East London. Established by families seeking alternatives to institutional care, we’ve grown into a respected provider of person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, and complex needs. We support over 1,000 people across nine boroughs, guided by our core values: engage, enable, and empower .

Outward’s Supported Housing Department provide a high quality intensive housing management service that supports our residents to sustain their tenancies. We work with a number of registered housing providers, our principal landlord being Newlon Housing Trust, for whom outward manage properties across in several London Boroughs.

An exciting opportunity has now arisen for 1 x full time and 1 x part-time Caretaker to join the central caretaking team.

• Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and conscientious individual?
• Do you care about the wellbeing of vulnerable people and want to ensure their homes are safe?
• Do you have experience of delivering an excellent property maintenance service?
• Are you an excellent communicator?
• Can you manage your own time efficiently? And yet are happy to be part of a team dedicated to our residents.

Requirements

Essential:

• Provide an excellent caretaker service to all Outward customers, ensuring that once works are carried out, the property is left safe, clean and tidy.
• Managing and planning your day to ensure you optimise your time.
• Carrying out regular health and safety checks and tests.
• Carrying out documented property inspections where required.
• To complete all relevant training.
• Providing caretaker support to our old peoples’ services.
• Basic DIY or trade skills (plumbing, carpentry, electrical, painting)
• Experience using hand tools and light machinery
• Right to work in the UK.
• Clean UK Driving Licence

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel across multiple sites within a broad geographical area
• Adaptable to changing duties or priorities

Desirable:

• Previous caretaking or maintenance experience (e.g., in a residential building, or healthcare setting)
• IT literacy for logging maintenance issues or using facility management systems
• Health & Safety training or awareness (e.g., COSHH, risk assessments)

The successful applicant will have at least one year’s experience in a similar role and have the ability to carry out maintenance tasks safely and with practical ability, having a can-do attitude towards our residents and colleagues. Because of the requirement to work alone with vulnerable adults, a full DBS check will be completed before a final job offer can be made.

Full JD Available Upon Request

How to Apply

The above is not an exhaustive list of requirements for the role. For further information, please, refer to the Job Description attached to this advert.

If interested please submit a copy of your most updated CV and a covering letter (preferably in one document).

The closing date for all applications is 18 th June 2025, however it is only an indicative date.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. It would be great to hear from you.

Interviews will be held end of June

Outward is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.