Location: Leicester - covering up from Oxford up to Mansfield
Salary: Competitive (dependent on experience)
Hours: Full-time, with regular travel
Are you an experienced maintenance professional with a passion for high standards, compliance, and leadership? Do you thrive in a hands-on role where no two days are the same?
At Welford Healthcare, we're looking for a Regional Maintenance Manager to support our care homes and HMOs, ensuring our residents, staff, and visitors enjoy safe, comfortable, and well-maintained environments every day.
The Role
As Regional Maintenance Manager, you'll lead maintenance and compliance activities across a portfolio of homes, working closely with Home Managers, the Facilities Manager, and regional operational teams. You'll drive best practice, support maintenance teams, oversee contractors, and ensure every site remains fully compliant with legislative requirements and industry standards.
This is a varied role that combines:
- Compliance management
- Team leadership and mentoring
- Contractor and project oversight
- Auditing and quality assurance
- Hands-on maintenance support when needed
What You'll Be Doing
Lead Compliance & Auditing
- Conduct annual Health, Safety & Environment audits across your region.
- Monitor compliance through Mainteno, ensuring no critical tasks become overdue.
- Ensure all statutory inspections, servicing, certifications, and remedial works are completed and recorded.
Support & Develop Maintenance Teams
- Mentor, train, and upskill maintenance personnel.
- Support recruitment, induction, and ongoing development of maintenance staff.
- Provide practical guidance and toolbox talks to promote best practice.
Manage Contractors & Projects
- Oversee contractor performance and compliance.
- Support refurbishment projects and property improvements.
- Work with the Facilities Manager on tendering, procurement, and contract management.
- Ensure projects are delivered safely and to a high standard.
Keep Homes Safe & Operational
- Support homes with urgent repairs, breakdowns, and maintenance challenges.
- Ensure compliance with Fire Safety, COSHH, Legionella, Electrical Safety, and Health & Safety requirements.
- Help reduce contractor costs by providing practical maintenance support where appropriate.
Drive Value & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure maintenance spending delivers value for money.
- Monitor purchasing activity and supplier performance.
- Support the onboarding of new homes and implementation of maintenance systems and procedures.
What We're Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience
Extensive maintenance experience within healthcare, care homes, housing, or similar environments
Strong knowledge of:
- Plumbing
- General building maintenance
- Basic electrics
- Decorating
- Gardening and grounds maintenance
- Portable Appliance Testing (PAT)
Experience managing compliance and statutory maintenance requirements
Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
Ability to build positive relationships with managers, colleagues, and contractors
Full UK Driving Licence
The Person
You'll be:
- Highly organised and responsive
- A natural problem-solver
- Detail-focused and compliance-driven
- Comfortable working independently and prioritising workloads
- Cost-conscious without compromising quality
- A hands-on leader who enjoys coaching and developing others
- Committed to creating safe, welcoming environments for residents
Benefits Include:
- Competitive salary
- Company car
- Company pension scheme
- Mobile phone and laptop
- Ongoing training and professional development
- Opportunities for career progression within a growing healthcare group
- Supportive and collaborative leadership team
- The opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of residents and staff across our homes
Why Join Welford Healthcare?
At Welford Healthcare, you'll play a key role in maintaining the environments our residents call home. You'll have the opportunity to influence standards across multiple sites, develop maintenance teams, and make a genuine difference to the quality and safety of our services every day.
Ready to take the next step in your maintenance leadership career? We'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and help us maintain excellence across our homes.
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