Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of creating meaningful lives together. They are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Maintenance Operative to join their award-winning team in Epsom. The role will focus on ensuring the building and grounds are well maintained, undertaking a variety of routine tasks and checks to keep the facilities 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, and applying basic fixes to equipment and systems. Other responsibilities will include supporting new residents to arrange their rooms, undertaking routine re-decoration, advising on supplies and ordering replacements, and providing out-of-hours emergency service.
About us
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with over 100 homes across the country. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, and offer a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.
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, and applying basic fixes to equipment and systems whilst ensuring facilities are fully functional.
Other responsibilities will include:
1. Carrying out all general maintenance tasks and basic repairs including all electrical, plumbing, joinery, and building tasks both inside and outside the Home.
2. Supporting new residents to arrange their room as they wish.
3. Ensuring routine re-decoration is undertaken as required to maintain the standards in the home.
4. Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
5. 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:
1. 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.
2. Hold a full driving licence.
3. Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.
4. Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
Please note this role will require:
1. ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
2. Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs. #J-18808-Ljbffr