Painter and Decorator in Hatfield

You will be responsible for the planning and delivery of a continuous programme of painting and decorating within YMCA Chiltern Group to maintain and improve our property portfolio. You will also be expected to bring the skills and experience to deal with more basic jobs outside of your specialism such as general maintenance requests where required.

As a qualified Painter Decorator, you will have the relevant training, experience, and trade skills to cover a wide range of indoor and outdoor painting, decorating and repairs. To maintain and improve our places through a routine maintenance cycle alongside those caused by damage or other cause, including responsive/emergency repair or renewal work. Ensuring that the repairs required are diagnosed correctly and works completed are to a high standard and quality.
This role also requires the monitoring and inspecting of works in progress including site audits.

You will be accountable for:
• Delivering a service which understands the needs of our beneficiaries and delivers a positive outcome for them.
• Being professional, courteous, empathetic, adaptable, self-motivated, take pride and ownership of your work, able to resolve problems you encounter, delivering a high-quality repair and providing an excellent customer experience every time.
• Adhering to all policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, processes, controls, systems, required training and record keeping. Ensuring that we operate in a safe, customer centric, environmentally ethical, and accountable way. Meeting and/or exceeding performance targets, understanding and mitigating risk.
• Attending all required training, toolbox talks, one to ones and appraisals, Embracing the opportunity for challenge, personal growth, and development. Engaging with other team members as required.
• Ensuring that all charity owned property is properly maintained, cared for, respected, and always remains fit for purpose.
• Maximising your first-time fix rate and daily productivity level. Delivering a high standard of workmanship, quality, and customer experience. You will ensure that van stocks are maintained, and source other materials required in a timely fashion to meet the service needs & performance targets.
• Liaising and communicating with managers, supervisors, schedulers, other colleagues, and customers whilst undertaking your duties to ensure we deliver on our promises and provide our customers with a first-class repairs service.
• On occasion, provide guidance, coaching, training and management of apprentices who join the P&E team, liaising with college placement tutors to ensure individuals have the exposure to the workplace experiences required.

Requirements:
• Excellent knowledge of regular painting and decorating maintenance and repair, with proven experience is diagnosing, repairing, and resolving issues
• Good attention to detail and quality
• NVQ Level 3+ in painting and decorating
• Extensive experience in a variety of painting and decorating techniques both internally and externally
• Full clean driving licence is required for this position.

At YMCA Chiltern Group we are an inclusive organisation and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We do not discriminate on the basis of Age, Disability, Gender Reassignment, Marriage/Civil Partnership, Pregnancy/Maternity, Race, Religion/Belief, Sex and/or Sexual Orientation. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities, and industries, and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, and abilities.

This is a Full Time role.
Hours per week: 37.5
Working Pattern: Monday-Friday / 37.5 hours per week

One YMCA and its subsidiaries, the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade, via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive, three-day Kickstarter Event.

By the end of these three days, there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas, which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do “more and better, together” so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.

These include:

• Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
• Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
• Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
• Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
• Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
• Family support through a network of children’s and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
• Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
• Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire, Luton and Hertfordshire
• Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
• Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
• A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity, and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.