Handy Person
Tyne and Wear, Newcastle Upon Tyne
6 Month Temporary Contract, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Pay £12.00 Per hour, £23,464 per annum plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan!
Home, a place where you belong
A fantastic opportunity for a Handy Person to join our awesome Cedar House Team. We are the multi skilled hands-on practical support that help our colleagues deliver amazing service to our customers. We support customers with differing support needs in a wide range of services including Cedar House/Osborne Rd. As our handy person you?ll spend much of your time working across these services.
Typical day as a Handy Person
* You?ll do minor or emergency repairs, decorative touches and even cleaning in our properties or communal areas.
* You?ll be hanging curtain poles, moving furniture, touching up paint, changing tap washers, unblocking sinks, mowing lawns, and clearing grounds or properties.
* You?ll carry out regular Fire Safety checks.
* Working with colleagues, commercial partners and customers throughout your day.
* Liaising with our Customer Service Centre and external contractors to report repairs outside of your remit and chase up outstanding works.
* Finally, if building flat pack furniture is your thing, then this is the perfect job for you!
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You?ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!
About You
* A team player with a can-do attitude and enthusiasm.
* You?re multi skilled with general maintenance skills, know a bit about general repairs, carpentry, basic plumbing and can wield a broom or paint brush!
* Comfortable working and communicating with people from all walks of life
* It would be amazing if you have been a handy person in a previous job, but it?s not a deal breaker.
* You?ll be able to use technology.
* To get from A to B, you?ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we?ll pay your mileage!
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to?external?candidates for this role.? This remains under regular review.
Our team
You?ll join Fin, Tracy and our Cedar House team, we?re super passionate about what we do! We?re super proud of our shared ethos to go above and beyond for our brilliant customers. We?re a supportive bunch and like to have a cake break at every opportunity!
Job details
* We mostly work Mon to Fri 9am until 5pm but we?re flexible and as long as we can meet our customers? needs - we can flex your work patterns to suit you.
* Based at our service in Cedar House you?ll spend your time travelling around the properties in our Newcastle patch, predominantly in Newcastle, Cedar House/Osborne Rd and dispersed properties all based in Newcastle.
* Occasionally travel outside of our patch / service to work on a property that you may not have worked on before, or when we have an all hands on deck situation!
* You?ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What?s in it for you?
* 34 days leave (including bank hols and a ?me day? to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
* Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We?ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
* Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
* We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you?re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
* Colleagues really matters to us, that?s why we?re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
* Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Handy Person Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don?t delay or you might miss out. ?Finally, do let us know if there?s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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