Maintenance Officer

Liaise; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Basingstoke is seeking a compassionate Support Worker to maintain a safe environment for service users with disabilities. The role involves performing maintenance tasks, coordinating with managers, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. The successful candidate will enjoy market-leading pay rates and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Market-leading pay rates

Length of service leave

Fully funded Blue Light Discount Card

Access to Wagesteam

Employee Assistance Programme

Free compliance training

NEST Pension Scheme

Flexibility in creating your own rota

Refer a Friend Bonus

Free enhanced DBS check

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Ideally have knowledge of maintaining and repairing electrical and plumbing systems.
• Comfortable assisting with painting, plumbing, and carpentry work.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance to services, grounds, and vehicles.
• Respond to emergency repair situations immediately.
• Support managers by ensuring a safe environment for service users.

Skills

Compassion

Empathy

Knowledge of COSHH

Job description

Basingstoke Based, With Travel Around The Region Sometimes Required

To carry out planned and reactive maintenance to all services, grounds, and vehicles, ensuring that all Health & Safety, regulatory, and company standards are met.

At Liaise, you will work with extraordinary people who achieve fantastic successes. Your main responsibilities will be to inspect and evaluate contract services, coordinate with managers, instructors, and others to provide equipment and materials needed within the care home environment, source and purchase good quality supplies and materials whilst being cost-effective.

You will be working in an environment which supports service users with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and associated complex health needs, to live the life they want to within our services. You will support the managers of these services by ensuring a safe environment for the service users, scheduling repairs and maintenance to minimize disruption.

You will respond to emergency repair situations immediately, considering health and safety requirements and solutions for repairs or replacements. You will need to perform skilled duties in the operations, maintenance, and repair of buildings and grounds areas.

About You

• You will be kind, compassionate, empathetic, and comfortable working in a care home environment.
• You will ideally have knowledge of maintaining and repairing electrical and plumbing systems.
• You will ideally be comfortable assisting with painting and decorating, plumbing and carpentry work, maintaining electrical equipment, and fire alarm testing as required.
• You will be able to perform preventive maintenance on equipment and building facility systems.
• You will undertake regular checks for leaks within water systems and ensure proper operation of boilers, water heaters, furnaces, and refrigeration.
• You will report any potential hazards to the Registered Manager.
• You will maintain gardens in line with health and safety regulations.
• You will be willing to take on additional responsibilities as instructed by the facilities manager.
• You will have knowledge of COSHH requirements.

Package

• Market-leading pay rates
• Length of service leave (up to five extra days holiday)
• Fully funded Blue Light Discount Card
• Access to Wagesteam - our financial wellbeing app that lets you access your pay as you earn it, get discounts at supermarkets, and helps you save.
• Employee Assistance Programme (access to free telephone counselling and legal advice)
• Free compliance training and opportunities to develop
• NEST Pension Scheme
• Flexibility in creating your own rota to suit your life
• Refer a Friend Bonus
• Free enhanced DBS check
• Life Assurance (2 x salary)

The successful applicant will need to pass an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references prior to commencing employment.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome, and encourage, applications from all backgrounds. We are happy to discuss any possible reasonable adjustments. Please note the Support Worker role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.