Maintenance Officer

Liaise East Anglia; Greater London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading pay rates

Length of service leave (up to five)

Blue Light Discount Card

Stream pay app access

Employee Assistance Programme

Free compliance training

NEST Pension Scheme

Free enhanced DBS check

Life Assurance (2 x salary)

Job summary

Progress Housing is seeking a Maintenance Officer to perform planned and reactive maintenance across services, grounds and vehicles within a care home environment. You will inspect services, coordinate with managers, source equipment, and ensure safety and compliance.

You should have experience with electrical/plumbing systems, be comfortable with painting/decorating and basic carpentry, and possess COSHH knowledge. DBS check will be required for the successful candidate.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of electrical and plumbing systems preferred.
• Ability to perform preventive maintenance on building facilities.
• Comfortable with painting, decorating, carpentry and basic repairs.
• COSHH knowledge and safety compliance.
• Kind, compassionate approach for care home environments.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance to services, grounds and vehicles.
• Inspect and evaluate contract services; coordinate with managers to provide equipment and materials.
• Respond to emergency repair situations with health and safety in mind; provide solutions for repairs/replacements.
• Schedule repairs and maintenance to minimise disruption to service users.
• Support service managers to maintain safe environments for residents.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Plumbing maintenance

Carpentry

Painting and decorating

Fire alarm testing

Preventive maintenance

Health & safety awareness

COSHH knowledge

Job description

About The Role

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 Progress Housing, 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 so there is minimal disruption the service users.

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 to work in a care home environment
• You will ideally have knowledge of maintaining and repairing electrical and plumbing systems
• You will ideally be comfortable to assist 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 the water and for proper operation of boiler, water heater, furnace 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 any additional responsibilities on behalf of the service 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 Stream - our financial wellbeing app that lets you access your pay as and when 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
• Free enhanced DBS check
• Life Assurance (2 x salary)

The successful applicant will need to pass an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory referencing 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 Maintenance Officer role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.