Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week
Salary: £24,456 - £28,542 per annum
Location: Burford, OX18 4PF
Closing date: 19 July 2026
Interview date: 28 & 29 July 2026
We’re recruiting a Maintenance Steward to join our team at our beautiful Burford site in the Cotswolds.
This is a varied and hands-on role where you will play a key part in ensuring the site remains safe, clean and fully operational. If you enjoy practical work and take pride in making a visible difference every day, this could be the role for you.
As a Maintenance Steward, you will support the smooth running of the site through a mix of maintenance, housekeeping and groundskeeping responsibilities.
You will:
- Carry out planned and reactive repairs across the site
- Maintain buildings, facilities, equipment and work areas to a high standard
- Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements at all times
- Identify and resolve non-routine maintenance issues promptly
- Support servicing and upkeep of vehicles and equipment
- Maintain clean, safe and organised operational areas
- Assist with unloading and handling deliveries where required
- Support the induction and training of new team members
- Accurately document work completed to support compliance and standards
This role is based on site in Burford and is a full-time position working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. There may occasionally be a need to work outside of these hours.
The ideal candidate will take pride in their work, maintaining our centres to the highest standards while providing support across all activities. You'll be skilled in planning ahead, prioritising tasks, and collaborating with all departments to ensure the centres are fully prepared for events. Strong interpersonal skills are essential, as you’ll be communicating with a diverse range of people across the site, ensuring smooth coordination and effective teamwork. Flexibility and empathy are key, as you'll be working closely with both people and animals, always maintaining a professional and courteous demeanour.
Knowledge, skills, and experience
- Full driving licence
- Previous gardening or grounds maintenance experience
- Experience of handyman/general maintenance work
- Basic vehicle maintenance
- Demonstrate good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience of grass mowers and maintaining grounds equipment
- Basic computer and administration skills
- Demonstrate safe handling and lifting methods
Although not essential, it would be great if you also had:
- Managing/monitoring Health and Safety aspects of the workplace
- Experience in animal care
- Some working knowledge of managing and maintaining land facilities
- LANTRA Qualification for operating gardening equipment
- Experience in supervising volunteers
- Experience of towing trailers or larger vehicles
- Experience of driving tractor and loader (ideally holding current competency certificate)
- Standard compliance testing experience
How to apply
To apply for this role, please submit your application through our careers site before the closing date of 19 July 2026.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications.
Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.
In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.
Our generous benefits package includes:
- Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
- Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
- Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
- Health cash plan
- Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
- Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
- Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
- Life assurance
- 20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Recognition scheme
- Annual volunteer days
- Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers
To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.
If you’d like to learn more about Blue Cross, our mission, and the work we do to support animals and people, take a look at our About Us page
