This role as a Maintenance Operative at Avery Healthcare offers the opportunity to be part of a dedicated team that provides exceptional care to residents. You will be responsible for maintaining the building and grounds, undertaking a variety of routine maintenance tasks and ensuring facilities are fully functional.
Main duties of the job
As a Maintenance Operative, your focus will be to ensure the building and grounds are well maintained, undertaking a variety of routine maintenance tasks, checks to services applying basic fixes to equipment and systems whilst ensuring facilities are fully functional. Other responsibilities will include carrying out general maintenance tasks and basic repairs, supporting new residents to arrange their room, undertaking routine re-decoration, advising on supplies and quality of items, and providing out of hours emergency service.
About us
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. Avery is committed to building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
Job responsibilities
Your focus as a Maintenance Operative will be to ensure the building and grounds are well maintained, undertaking a variety of routine maintenance tasks, checks to services applying basic fixes to equipment and systems whilst ensuring facilities are fully functional.
Other responsibilities will include:
* Carrying out all general maintenance tasks and basic repairs including all electrical, plumbing, joinery and building tasks both inside and outside the Home.
* Supporting new residents to arrange their room as they wish.
* Ensuring routine re-decoration is undertaken as required to maintain the standards in the home.
* Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
* Providing out of hours emergency service, participating in the on-call rota.
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.
Our ideal candidate must:
* Have a minimum of one year's experience in a general maintenance or handy person role and/or hold a professional qualification in a trade.
* Hold a full driving licence.
* Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
* Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
Qualifications
* You should have a minimum of one year's experience in a general maintenance or handy person role and/or hold a professional qualification in a trade. You must also hold a full driving licence and have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Please note this role will require:
* ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
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