Vacancy: Multi Skilled Wet Trade
Closing date: Tuesday 18 August
Shortlisting: Wednesday 19 August
Proposed Interview date: Wednesday 26 August
Salary: £32,832.62
About the vacancy:
Join Hedyn and help us keep homes safe, well-maintained, and thriving. We're looking for a skilled tradesperson with experience in plastering, tiling, and general maintenance to deliver high-quality repairs and improvements across our housing stock.
In this role as a Multi Skilled Wet Trade you'll work closely with residents and colleagues to provide excellent customer service while making a real difference to local communities. This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of Wales' largest housing associations and be part of an organisation committed to creating connected communities where everyone can live well.
A full UK driving licence is essential
Specifically, in the role you will:
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Deliver high-quality wet trade works including plastering (e.g., skimming, rendering), tiling, flooring (including vinyl and safety flooring), screeding, brickwork, blockwork, roofing repairs, guttering, drainage, and associated maintenance tasks.
- Undertake a range of secondary multi-skilled tasks including basic carpentry, plumbing, groundworks, fencing, and painting and decorating as required.
- Diagnose faults, determine the scope of works, and carry out repairs in line with industry standards, regulations, and best practice.
- Complete all work within agreed timescales and quality standards, ensuring efficient and cost-effective service delivery.
- Undertake asbestos-related tasks where trained (e.g., removal, bagging, and tagging in line with safety requirements).
- Plan, organise, and prioritise workloads, interpreting verbal and written instructions and resolving on-site issues with practical solutions.
- Estimate, order, and manage materials and van stock effectively, ensuring timely completion of works.
- Accurately record work activities, job status, materials, and time using mobile/electronic systems, including photographic evidence, risk assessments, and compliance documentation.
- Operate and maintain allocated vehicles, including conducting daily safety checks and ensuring safe, courteous use in line with company policies.
- Ensure safe use, storage, and maintenance of tools, equipment, and materials, reporting any defects promptly.
- Work in full compliance with Health & Safety legislation, safe systems of work, GDPR, equality and diversity standards, and all organisational policies and procedures.
- Deliver excellent customer service by engaging professionally with residents, responding to service requests, resolving issues, and using feedback to improve services.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, contractors, and external partners, contributing to a collaborative “one team” approach.
- Support colleagues and assist wider maintenance teams to ensure work programmes (responsive, planned, and voids) are delivered efficiently.
- Mentor and support apprentices or less experienced colleagues where required.
- Participate in out-of-hours call-out services where required.
- Maintain accurate records and contribute to organisational objectives, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Represent the organisation professionally at all times and undertake any additional duties as required.
(Please refer to the attached recruitment pack for more information.)
Application Process:
We require an application form to be completed for every role.
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time – all speculative CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
Your Hedyn, our comprehensive benefits package:
We believe Hedyn is a great place to work and it’s important to us that our people feel the same way.
As well as offering varied and fulfilling careers, we want every colleague to feel appreciated. That means having the best possible benefits package, the flexibility to maintain a great work-life balance and the opportunity to achieve your full potential.
We are still at the beginning of our journey. Join us to help shape it.
Enhanced Pension Scheme:
We offer an attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions of up to 12%. You are able to determine the level of contributions that is right for you.
Enhanced Annual Leave:
You’ll start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase gradually to 30 days following 3 years’ service.
SMART Working (dependent on role):
You’re trusted to manage your time to work in a way that meets the needs of our customers, colleagues and communities.
At Hedyn, we believe that ‘work is something you do rather than somewhere you go.’
Health and Wellbeing:
We have many health and wellbeing policies and initiatives such as Cycle to Work and Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption.
Flexible Benefits
We have a flexible benefits package that allows colleagues to spend £625 towards the benefits that suit them. There is a wide range of benefits available to choose from including Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, the option to have your professional memberships paid for, and Electric Vehicles.
Development:
We offer many professional and personal development options such as sponsored study opportunities and career progression and development.
We want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.
If you are looking for your next career challenge, seeking responsibility, and are passionate about delivering the best possible service, we'd love to hear from you.
