Maintenance Operative

Maintenance Operative. Parklands Care Home

• £13.39 per hour
• 40 hours per week
• Shift pattern 8am-4:30pm Monday to Friday but including on call duties when needed

Are you practical reliable and ready to keep things running smoothly Join our dedicated team at Parklands Care Home a warm and welcoming purpose-built home offering exceptional residential dementia nursing and dementia care.

Located just a short stroll from the beautiful Hesketh Park Parklands is thoughtfully designed to provide a safe comfortable and homely environment. As part of our team you’ll play a vital role in maintaining our facilities to ensure residents feel secure and supported every day.

As a Maintenance Operative at our home your role would involve:

• Maintaining the building and equipment
• Carry out routine checks weekly monthly annually on systems in the home and ensuring that external checks are carried out within the agreed time frame.
• Monitor and respond to the fire alarm call boilers and lifts.
• Make effective and efficient use of resources in any maintenance or repair.
• Maintain the building grounds and equipment to ensure the safety of residents staff and visitors to the House including decoration and repair minor plumbing works and maintaining the garden areas.
• Maintain good communication and relationships with other teams and colleagues at the House.
• Maintain awareness of the Home's policies and procedures especially the Fire Policy.
• Participate in Training and Development as an individual and as part of the team.
• Get involved in the induction of new staff by training them on the building layout and fire policies and procedures.
• Maintain client and business confidentiality at all times.
• Control and ordering of stock and acceptance and checking of deliveries.
• Maintain an awareness of the Health and Safety requirements.
• Observe and maintain high levels of communication within the teams of staff individual colleagues and residents.
• Maintain client and business confidentiality at all times.
• To carry out any additional duties as requested.

The post-holder will assume responsibility for assisting in providing a safe secure and attractive environment for our residents by carrying out routine planned and responsive maintenance for the Home as required.

You will be expected to ensure the upkeep and maintenance of all internal areas of the Home as well as tending to the gardens car park and all other external spaces. There will also be a requirement to carry out regular health and safety checks and document these checks accurately and consistently.

Applicants will need to demonstrate significant experience of property maintenance and ideally also be able to undertake very basic plumbing repairs as required. The ability to show initiative and excellent troubleshooting skills are key requirements of this role as there will at times be a need to provide and/or source solutions to maintenance issues arising at short notice.

Furthermore candidates should be reliable dedicated individuals of a caring and patient disposition and with excellent attention to detail.

Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits:

• Free uniform. Free Meals*. Free DBS.
• Discounts on the high street* - with retailers like Asda Costa and Argos
• Refer-a-Friend - and get a £250 bonus
• Flexible pay* - choose when you are paid and get money management tips too
• Free wellbeing programme - helping you look after your physical and mental health
• Employee recognition scheme - we recognise and reward great work
• Pension scheme - helping you plan for your retirement
• In-house training - on-going face-to-face training tailored to you
• Career opportunities - The chance to ‘make your mark’ and play a key role

*Overtime is paid for working over fulltime hours. Free meals are given if working over an 8 hour shift and are subject to terms and conditions. Discounts are accessed using our ‘Reward Me’ app. Flexible pay is available via ‘STREAM’.

Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates LGBTQ as well as non-binary candidates and those with experience of mental health.