Caretaking

Click here to download the Caretaking and Cleaning Services booklet (includes service standards)

Our Caretaking service works to ensure that our tenants live in a safe, clean environment, removing rubbish and dumped items from our estates, and cleaning communal areas and empty properties. Our Caretaking service consists of several sections performing various roles:

  • Residential caretakers provide a service to all tenants living in multi-storey blocks of flats.
  • Community Caretakers are dedicated to specific estates and are active members of the community.
  • Mobile Caretakers and the Planned Worked Team provide a cleaning service for communal areas.
  • Reactive Caretakers respond quickly to requests from tenants and housing offices to remove dumped rubbish from communal land and gardens of empty properties.
  • The Communal Light Repair Team are a team of qualified electricians who will attend any electrical fault on communal lights as well changing bulbs and adjusting timers.
  • The Void Cleansing and Rubbish Removal Team clean out empty properties before re-let

Contact Details

Email: fcho.caretaking@oldham.gov.uk

For more information please contact your local housing office.

To report a job to Caretaking please use our online form.