Maintenance

River Meadows - Maintenance (20 hours per week)

We are now recruiting for a skilled Maintenance person, to join our team here at Springcare.

Here at Springcare we believe that a good maintenance person enjoys making a difference to the lives of older people and prides themselves in providing a safe and well maintained environment for our residents to live in.

Qualities Required

• Team player who can also work on their own initiative.
• Good communication skills, both written and spoken, and able to communicate with residents and colleagues.
• Committed to delivering a high standard of work.
• Sensitive to the needs of others and mindful of our residents.
• Proactive, able to prioritise, and a positive work ethic.
• Flexibility, and able to adapt to any ad hoc needs of the home.
• Capable of carrying out basic computer tasks and/or use handheld devices.

About the role

A maintenance person's day to day tasks can be extremely varied. One day you may be helping to build furniture, and another day carrying out routine checks around the home. The main day to day tasks include:

• Preventative maintenance and general building repair such as repairing broken locks, doors, and other loose fittings.
• Carrying out routine checks on equipment and services such as fire alarms, extinguishers, fire doors, and carrying out any tasks in the home's maintenance books.
• Minor plumbing and carpentry.
• Painting and decorating.
• Keeping the exterior of the homes clean, tidy, and free from trip hazards.
• Changing light bulbs and keeping stock of items such as bulbs, batteries, and other equipment.
• Before a weekend/bank holiday checking that lights, equipment, heating, and items such as batteries are all working.
• Providing meter readings for utilities and any boilers.

Candidate Profile

• Good all round maintenance skills such as joinery, plumbing and painting.
• Experience within a similar environment/role.
• Good understanding of Health & Safety regulations and compliance.
• Physically fit and able to lift lighter items of furniture/objects safely.
• Able to maintain and use handheld tools safely (following appropriate training).
• Willing to attend training that will further develop their skills.
• Hold a full driver's licence.

Benefits

• Permanent full and part time day contracts with access to our work placed pension scheme.
• Early pay using Wage Stream App.
• Withdraw up to 50% of earnings in advance of pay.
• Access to Blue Light Card for savings across hundreds of national retailers.
• Fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications (level 2 through to 5) with internal career progression opportunities.
• Refer a friend scheme (T&C apply).
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support.
• Family friendly policies.
• Robust recruitment process through our portal.
• Opportunity to join a supportive, friendly and likeminded team.

Application Requirements

Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.