Estate Assistant (Grounds Maintenance)

Estate Assistant (Grounds Maintenance)

Location

Southend Salary: £24,479 We are looking for an Estate Assistant to deliver high-quality grounds maintenance and estate services across our communities, ensuring the environments around our customers' homes remain clean, safe and well maintained. What you'll be doing Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, acting as a brand ambassador for Delta Housing and delivering first-class customer service within the community. Deliver scheduled and responsive grounds-maintenance services, including maintaining lawns, hedges and shrubs, controlling weeds and responding to seasonal service demands.

Maintain external communal areas—including pathways, roadways, car parks and refuse areas—by removing litter, leaves, dog fouling and other debris, and by changing and emptying litter and dog-waste bins. Remove bulk waste and fly-tipped materials, carry out waste inspections and investigations where appropriate, and dispose of waste at authorised transfer stations in accordance with site regulations. Clean and disinfect refuse areas and address pest-related environmental hazards, including pigeon guano, ensuring all discarded or hazardous waste is handled and disposed of correctly.

What we are looking for

Demonstratable knowledge of COSHH Knowledge of Health and safety Legislation and PPE Ability to demonstrate practical experience in the use of a wide range of powered equipment with the ability to train as and when required. Full Clean UK Driving licence, and experience of driving a 3.5T tipper PA1 -PA6

Desirable

Please note the office expectancy of this role is as follows: full time on site

Benefits

The salary for this post will be £24,479 Per Annum. Learning and development opportunities Healthcare cash plan Robust employee reward and recognition programme Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme Volunteering programme Competitive pension scheme 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays, 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year and 1 wellbeing day per annum. 35 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need.

We operate a hybrid working policy at Delta Housing Ltd. Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications or successfully appoint a candidate before the closing date. We encourage early applications to avoid disappointment.

Closing date: 4 th November 2026 Shortlist date: 5 th November 2026 Interview date: TBC TPBN1_UKTJ