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This is an exciting opportunity for a Roofer to join Your Housing Group's Repairs and Maintenance Division and provide a high-quality roofing repairs service to our customers. Working for a Housing Association can be extremely rewarding, and we are lucky to have a hugely collaborative team of operatives, throughout all trade professions, who work together to ensure that our customers are safe and warm in their homes.

If you would like to play a part in this talented and committed team, then it’s a great time to come and get involved as the team is growing and evolving, so we currently have additional roles available.

What will my working week look like?

You will live within your regional area of work in Preston and ideally be based within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington to attend meetings and training courses when needed.

What will I be responsible for doing?

As a member of our reactive maintenance and repairs team, you will carry out roofing maintenance on both major and minor construction works, for a number of empty homes and tenanted properties owned by Your Housing Group. You will be confident and capable, ensuring all work undertaken is completed with due regard for quality, productivity, and safety. Our organisation is all about people, especially the people who live in our homes and the communities that we serve and deliver excellent customer service to, so ideally you will be personable, professional, and able to understand the differing needs of the customers in our communities, tailoring your approach to meet that requirement to deliver a bespoke service.

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

• Experience in construction or housing maintenance
• A full UK Driving License (ideally no more than 6 points)
• The ability and experience in the completion of all slate, tile, stone, ridge, verge and lead repair work to a high standard (EDPM Rubber Roofing/flat roof experience is desirable)
• Basic health and safety knowledge in a repair’s environment

And will be:

• A collaborative team player
• A keen problem solver
• Passionate about right first time and delivering a quality service

This role also offers genuine progression opportunities, many of our operatives go on to gain further qualifications or take up team leader, supervisory or secondment roles internally when they arise. So, if this sounds like a role that you would be good at, working within a team environment you would enjoy, then we would love to hear from you!

What’s in it for me?

In return we offer £32,319.00 per annum for a 40-hour week, and 23 days annual leave, plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas and New Year, plus Bank Holidays but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance. On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

For more of our great benefits, please review the benefits information sheet available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford. As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by building over 100 new homes a year and continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties, tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our Repairs and maintenance teams play a huge part in delivering these services to our customers. We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

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As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability; if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview. Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers; however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.