Multi-skilled maintenance technician in the Facilities team at STEPS Rehabilitation, a residential neurorehabilitation centre. The work spans planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, hydrotherapy pool plant, building controls and refurbishment projects, with the post holder doing most of it in-house. The post sits in a small, close-knit team working in occupied client areas, so regular contact with clients and families is part of the job. Candidates need a construction or maintenance trade qualification, or equivalent experience, and must investigate faults without waiting to be told.
What the job involves
- Planned preventative maintenance, including fire alarm testing, fire door inspections, water hygiene checks, equipment and vehicle checks
- Hydrotherapy pool water quality testing, chemical monitoring, filtration, backwashing and plant maintenance
- Building systems work covering heating, ventilation, air conditioning, mechanical plant and building management systems
- Reactive maintenance and fault-finding across buildings and equipment
- Maintaining profiling beds, hoists and passenger lifts, including emergency passenger release after training
- Projects and refurbishments, including shopfitting, kitchen fitting and specialist installations
- Liaising with contractors and suppliers, arranging visits and following problems to resolution
- Managing own work orders in MaintainX and keeping records up to date
- Servicing company vehicles and arranging MOTs
- Grounds maintenance, waste management, snow clearing, seasonal work and event support
- Daily walkarounds and routine checks in occupied bedrooms, respecting client privacy and dignity
- Communicating with clients, families and the wider team
What’s required
Qualifications
- Recognised construction or maintenance trade qualification (e.g. joinery, plumbing, electrical, general building) at NVQ or City & Guilds Level 2, or equivalent experience
Experience
- Experience in a building maintenance or construction environment
- Experience working alongside multiple trades
- Safe use of hand and power tools
Skills & knowledge
- Reliable and organised, with good communication skills
- Practical problem-solving and willingness to learn skills outside primary trade
- Understanding of safe working practices and following risk assessments and safe systems of work
- Able to work independently and as part of a small team
- Takes ownership of tasks
- Professional and polite around clients and families
Nice to have
- Experience using digital maintenance systems (e.g. CAFM)
- IOSH Working Safely or similar training
- Experience working with vulnerable adults
- Experience in healthcare, care, education or occupied environments
- Multi-trade qualification or additional trade competencies
- Previous commercial pool plant experience
- Previous building controls experience
What’s offered
- Generous benefits package (not itemised)
- Training provided for hydrotherapy pool work
- Training and authorisation for emergency lift release
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
