Maintenance Operative

NHS; Derby; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Healthcare provider as a Maintenance Operative, where you'll positively impact residents' lives through essential building maintenance and support tasks. Bring your experience in general maintenance and your commitment to a caring team environment, all while enjoying growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum one year's experience in general maintenance or handy person role.
• Full driving licence required.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations including Fire Safety and COSHH.

Responsibilities

• Carry out general maintenance tasks including electrical, plumbing, joinery repairs.
• Support new residents in arranging their rooms and ensure routine re-decoration.
• Provide out of hours emergency service.

Skills

Adaptability

Health and Safety Knowledge

Education

Professional qualification in a trade

Job description

This role as a Maintenance Operative at Avery Healthcare in Littleover offers the opportunity to join a supportive and caring team, where you can make a positive impact on residents' lives every day. With a focus on maintaining the building and grounds, you'll undertake a variety of routine maintenance tasks, checks, and basic repairs to ensure the facilities are 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 applying basic fixes to equipment and systems whilst ensuring facilities are fully functional. Other responsibilities will include carrying out general maintenance tasks and basic repairs, supporting new residents to arrange their room, ensuring routine re-decoration is undertaken, 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 a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together'. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes and building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Shift Details: 8 am to 4.30 pm

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we're here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you'll be making a positive impact on residents' lives every day. Your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We're committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. As part of our close-knit team, you'll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We're now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Maintenance Operative. If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Shift Details: 8 am to 4.30 pm

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we're here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you'll be making a positive impact on residents' lives every day. Your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We're committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. As part of our close-knit team, you'll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We're now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Maintenance Operative. If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

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 applying basic fixes to equipment and systems whilst ensuring facilities are fully functional.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out all general maintenance tasks and basic repairs including electrical, plumbing, joinery, and building tasks both inside and outside the Home.
• Supporting new residents to arrange their room as they wish.
• Ensuring routine re-decoration is undertaken as required to maintain standards in the home.
• Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• 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:

• 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.
• Hold a full driving licence.
• Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.
• Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

ABOUT AVERY

At Avery, we're not just one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we're a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we're passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day. Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.

Please note this role will require:

• ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role, you should 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. You should also hold a full driving licence and have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.

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.