Job Description

Full Time - 37 Hours per week - Permanent

Based out of our Head Office Shrewsbury Avenue, Peterborough

0800-1600 Monday - Friday

Here at Cross Keys Homes we are looking to recruit for the varied role of Estate Ranger with a primary focus on gardening. You will be at the heart of helping residents maintain and restore their outdoor spaces, ensuring our estates remain green, clean, and welcoming.

About the Role

You will work with the Rangers team to support our residents by carrying out essential garden clearance and ongoing maintenance. This is a hands-on, community-facing role and we are looking for someone who will take pride in our estates and ensure they are well maintained, neat and tidy to enhance the reputation of CKH for providing quality homes.

Key Responsibilities

Clear and maintain residents' gardens, including removal of overgrowth and waste. Prune trees, hedges, and shrubs. Mow lawns and maintain planting beds. Remove unwanted garden items and prepare areas for resident upkeep. Cut back bushes, brambles, Ivy and mow the grass. Fly-tipping and gutter cleaning. Inspect estates and streets for disrepair and risks, report to relevant departments and stakeholders. Post-inspect contractors' ground maintenance, support compliance with CKH standards. Weekly visits to Hostels and Schemes for repairs, ensuring CKH standards. Maintain communal areas, perform repairs, remove graffiti, and report complex issues. Manage site security, communicate with contractors, public, residents, and CKH staff. Test AOVs, emergency lights, powered gates, and playground equipment; report issues. Manage fire risks, remove refuse, ensure clear bin areas, report non-compliance. Address health and safety non-compliance, report concerns about residents and tenancy breaches. Deliver excellent customer service, manage expectations, report unresolved issues. Maintain accurate site records, use hand-held devices for job updates and communication. Keep estates clean, remove refuse, fly-tipping, and health risks, record service charges. Assist vulnerable residents and support Facilities, Health and Safety team with various tasks. Maintain company vehicles, report issues, arrange cleaning and maintenance.

What We're Looking For:

Knowledge of Health and Safety at Work Knowledge and understanding of tree, shrub and plant species, garden design and garden maintenance Full UK Manual Driving Licence Cleaning duties experience Site surveys and inspections experience Experience interacting with the public Experience using a handheld device Fire Regulations knowledge

A Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required


If you have the experience and drive to help us achieve our vision, we'd love to hear from you!


Please see attached job description for full details of the role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient interest is received. Therefore, if you are interested in the role, we encourage you to apply without delay!

No agencies please.

A commercial business with a social heart, our vision is to create opportunities that change lives through our drive, expertise, resources and passion.


Our dynamic approach has made us one of the region's leading providers of affordable homes for rent and sale. Developing new homes across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and the surrounding area, we're committed to increasing the supply of affordable homes in the communities where they are needed most. Agility and innovation are central to our approach to adapting to change, and we'll continue to grow our business in today's fast-paced operating environment.


There's more to building communities than building houses. In addition to providing quality homes and delivering excellent landlord services, we also provide care at home and at our two extra care communities in Peterborough as well as around the clock support through our LifeLine personal alarm service. Our community investment programme sees us working with specialist partners to bring a range of employment, wellbeing and family-friendly services to the heart of our communities, with a rapidly expanding digital support offer too.


You can find out more

about us

and the

services we offer our residents

on the CKH website.


Members of the National Housing Federation, PlaceShapers, Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the CBI and BuildEast.