Maintenance Operative

Athena Care Homes (UK) Ltd; March; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Induction program

28 days holiday per year

Blue Light Card

Refer a friend scheme

Job summary

Athena Care Homes (UK) Ltd is seeking a Maintenance Operative at Aria Court Care Home in March. You will ensure a safe, pleasant environment for residents and staff, working with teams to deliver high service standards.

Reporting to the General Manager, you will manage maintenance checks and safety across the home. The role offers a competitive salary with benefits and requires experience in healthcare maintenance, strong communication, and reliable reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar maintenance role, ideally within a healthcare environment, is essential.
• Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of and competence in building maintenance.
• Good computer skills in order to complete reporting duties.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all minor repairs and plumbing are fixed within a timely manner.
• Ensure that all electrical equipment, drainage systems and the boiler house is maintained and repaired if required.
• Ensure that the decoration of the home is to the highest standard and snagging items dealt with in a timely manner.
• Overall responsibility for carrying our weekly tests of the emergency systems within the home.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Communication skills

Building maintenance knowledge

Computer skills

Job description

As the Maintenance Operative at Aria Court Care Home, you will be responsible for ensuring there is a safe and pleasant environment for all residents and employees, working closely with their teams to provide strong leadership and inspiration ensuring the highest service standards are achieved.

After a recent refurbishment, Aria Court is now a sparkling 92-bedroom care home with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

Located in a quiet residential nook in March, Cambridgeshire, our home boasts a cinema, hair salon, multiple dining rooms. Beautiful gardens provide a bounty of home-grown fruit and veg.

The kitchen team at Aria Court are award-winning and have even created their own cookbook full of their best recipes. As one of the leading residential care homes in March, Cambridgeshire, Aria Court offers nothing less than the best care for your loved one in a safe and comfortable environment.

Reporting to the General Manager, the Maintenance Operative is responsible for ensuring all maintenance checks are conducted, and that the home is a safe environment for residents, team members and visitors whilst maintaining a high quality of service within the home.

Salary

Competitive, depending on skills and experience.

Shift Pattern

40 hours per week, worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

Home Location

Coronation Close, March, England, PE15 9PP.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure that all minor repairs and plumbing are fixed within a timely manner.
• Ensure that all electrical equipment, drainage systems and the boiler house is maintained and repaired if required.
• Ensure that the decoration of the home is to the highest standard and snagging items dealt with in a timely manner.
• Overall responsibility for carrying our weekly tests of the emergency systems within the home.

Training, Skills & Experience Required

• Experience within a similar maintenance role, ideally within a healthcare environment, is essential.
• Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of and competence in building maintenance.
• Good computer skills in order to complete reporting duties.

What We Can Offer

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena

Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities.

Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care, clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care.

We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.