Maintenance Person - Care Home

Job details

Hourly rate: Negotiable, depending on experience

Working days: 3 days per week – negotiable at interview stage

Shift timings: Depending on the above

Working hours: 15 hours per week – negotiable at interview stage

Job Purpose:

You will support our long-term elderly residents by maintaining the environment they live in to ensure their safety and meet compliance requirements.

Duties:

· Carrying out any repairs and renewals including basic plumbing, electrics, painting and decoration etc to keep the Home in good working order

· Undertaking regular testing as on equipment to ensure all working correctly e.g. emergency lighting, fire alarms, water temperature testing

· Maintaining the garden, keeping all areas neat and tidy, this to include plant and tree maintenance.

· Assisting in the moving in of new Service Users i.e. moving of furniture, pictures, etc.

· Working with the team to keep the home in a good state of tidiness and repair

· Completing the required paperwork in a timely and effective manner

· Be ‘on call’ for advice/action in any emergency which may arise out of hours

Skills/Qualifications:

· Practical and can demonstrate experience in basic maintenance skills

· Friendly and enthusiastic and works well in a team

· Proactive in identifying work to be done to continue to maintain and upgrade the Home

· Supportive and flexible in meeting the dynamic needs in residential care

· Right to work in the UK (COS is not available)

Experience:

Ideally, you will have previously been a Maintenance Person or Trades Person and have worked with those with dementia or learning difficulties.

Pay: Up to £14.00 per hour

Benefits:

Ability to commute/relocate:

Retford DN22 7BX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

Work Location: In person