Care Home Maintenance Operative

Liverpool - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Care Home Maintenance Operative. Oak Springs Care Home

£14.00 per hour
37.5 hours per week
Shift pattern 8am-4pm including weekends

Join Oak Springs a luxury purpose-built residential care home in Wavertree and play a vital role in maintaining a safe welcoming and wellmaintained environment for our residents staff and visitors.

Oak Springs is a 74bed home spread across three floors offering highquality residential respite and dementia care. Our setting includes landscaped gardens peaceful lounges a beauty salon and communal spaces designed to enhance residents’ quality of life. As part of our dedicated team you’ll help ensure the home runs smoothly behind the scenes every day.

The Role

As a Maintenance Operative you will be responsible for the daytoday upkeep repair and safety of the building grounds and equipment ensuring standards remain high at all times.

Your responsibilities will include:

Carrying out planned preventative and reactive maintenance across the home
Completing weekly monthly and annual checks on systems and equipment
Monitoring and responding to fire alarm systems boilers and lifts
Maintaining internal and external areas including gardens car parks and grounds
Undertaking minor repairs decoration and basic plumbing tasks
Ensuring all health & safety and fire safety checks are completed and accurately documented
Ordering managing and monitoring maintenance stock and deliveries
Communicating effectively with colleagues to support safe and efficient operations
Supporting new staff inductions by providing guidance on fire safety and building layout
Maintaining confidentiality and working in line with policies and procedures
Proactively identifying issues and providing practical solutions at short notice

You will play a key role in creating a safe secure and pleasant environment for residents while ensuring compliance with health safety and fire regulations.

About You

We’re looking for a reliable and resourceful maintenance professional who takes pride in their work.

You will ideally have:

Proven experience in property or building maintenance
Basic plumbing knowledge and strong general DIY skills
A proactive approach with excellent problemsolving abilities
Good attention to detail and organisational skills
A caring patient and professional attitude
The ability to work independently while supporting a wider team

Experience in a care or residential environment is desirable but not essential.

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

Care Home Maintenance Operative. Oak Springs Care Home £14.00 per hour37.5 hours per weekShift pattern 8am-4pm including weekends Join Oak Springs a luxury purpose-built residential care home in Wavertree and play a vital role in maintaining a safe welcoming and wellmaintained environment for our re...