As a Head of Maintenance at a Barchester care home, you'll be responsible for ensuring the care home environment is clean, well-maintained, and provides a warm and welcoming atmosphere for residents and staff. You'll have a hands-on role, undertaking a variety of maintenance tasks, leading a team, and liaising with contractors.
Main duties of the job
The Head of Maintenance role at Barchester Healthcare involves a wide range of responsibilities, including fixing leaks, planting flowers, and supporting the General Manager with annual budget planning. You'll need to be comfortable working alone, leading a team, and communicating with contractors. The wellbeing of the residents is the top priority, so you'll need to be sensitive to their needs when carrying out maintenance work.
Job responsibilities
As a Head of Maintenance at a Barchester care home, you'll ensure we have a clean and well-maintained environment so that residents feel at home and staff can do their jobs well. Creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere is part of our commitment to delivering first-class care and support.
You can expect plenty of variety as a Head of Maintenance with us. You'll turn your hand to all sorts of tasks within the care home building as well as in the gardens and grounds. That could mean fixing a leaky tap one minute and planting some new bulbs the next. You should be comfortable working alone, leading a team, and supporting the General Manager with annual budget planning. We'll also need you to liaise with contractors on jobs that fall outside the expertise of your team.
About you
The wellbeing of our residents will be your number one priority as a Head of Maintenance at Barchester. You'll make sure all work is carried out with sensitivity to their needs. With hands-on experience of property maintenance, you'll have at least one trade skill and, ideally, a proven ability to undertake a wide range of maintenance tasks. You should be reliable and flexible when it comes to your working hours. This role also calls for a full UK driving licence, IT literacy, and GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent).
Qualifications
* Hands-on experience in property maintenance, at least one trade skill, and the ability to undertake a wide range of maintenance tasks.
* A full UK driving licence, IT literacy, and GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent) are also required.
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.
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