We are now recruiting for a skilled Maintenance person at 40 hours per week, 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.
What qualities does it take to be a Maintenance Person at Springcare?
Being a team player, who can also work on their own initiative.
Have good communication skills, both written and spoken, and able to communicate with both residents and colleagues.
Be committed to delivering a high standard of work.
Be sensitive to the needs of others and mindful of our residents.
Proactive, able to prioritise, and a have a positive work ethic.
Flexibility, and able to adapt to any ad hoc needs of the home.
Be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer and/or handheld device.
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.
Some of the daily tasks that a maintenance Person would carry out would be:
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.
What Springcare can offer to you:
Permanent full and part time day contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
Early pay using Wage Stream App – you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay
Access to Blue Light Card – where you can make 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 for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
Access to counselling and wellbeing support
Family friendly policies
Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal
Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.
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.
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