Handyman for a residential care home.
4 days per week (9pm - 5pm)
1. Statutory testing: Fire alarms, emergency lighting, hot and cold water temperatures including legionella checks, portable appliance testing (PAT), gas safety checks.
2. Periodic external inspections of buildings, grounds, boundary walls and fences and trees. Checking in particular for safety issues, neighbour issues, trespass or encroachment.
3. Building fabric maintenance: internal and external fabric including walls, doors, windows and roofs and including temporary as well as permanent buildings.
4. Internal finishes: painting and decorating and floor and wall coverings.
5. External finishes: painting and decorating, treatment of external timber.
6. Maintenance of internal and external signs.
7. Repairs to furniture, fixtures and fittings.
8. Ensuring the premises arekept in a highly presentable condition.
9. Ensuring a high level of availability of vacant rooms for viewing / letting (95%)
10. Basic security of premises: key control, locking of buildings, stores, fences and gates.
11. Heating and hot water services: Including plant controls and oil fuel, its ordering, storage and distribution plant.
12. Electrical supply and distribution: power and lighting including external lighting, stand by generators and their fuelling and fuel stocks.
13. Ventilation and cooling equipment.
14. Gas supply and equipment: limited to the correct operating and integrity of equipment and controls, ventilation, flueing and air supply.
15. Water supply, storage and distribution: Including preventionof scalding and prevention of legionella.
16. Foul and surface water drainage: including all guttering, downpipes, soil vent pipes, above and below ground drainage, rainwater and road gullies and all manholes.
17. Alarm systems: Periodic testing and routine maintenance of fire alarm and resident call systems.
18. Television aerials and distribution systems.
19. Lightning protection.
20. Grounds and gardens; bothhard and soft landscaping.
21. Boundary walls, fences and gates.
22. Roads, paths and car parks.
23. Exceptional events: work with Home Manager to develop, maintain and resource emergency plans and contingencies. Prioritise salting and gritting, flood prevention, fuel supplies etc.
24. Centrally organised contracts: maintain an oversight of the activities of all contractors working on centrally organised group contracts;e.g. lift maintenance, fire safety equipment, water hygiene, asbestos monitoring, electrical tests etc. monitoring compliance with specification and schedule of activities.
25. Major works: work with Home Manager and Property Department to support the delivery of major works, with particular care for the ongoing operation of the site and staff and resident safety and welfare.
26. Maintain appropriate records of all safety checks, risk assessments, meter readings etc.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £12.99-£13.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
