Maintenance Person, Deal Kent

Nellsar; Deal; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bank holiday pay

Flexible hours

Refer a Friend bonus

Job summary

Nellsar Care Group is seeking a Maintenance/Handyperson for St Winifreds Care Home in Deal. The role involves carrying out routine repairs, monitoring systems and supporting a busy maintenance team under the Home Manager and Head of Maintenance.

You will handle planned and reactive maintenance, prioritise safety, and contribute to a clean, hazard-free environment for residents while ensuring high care standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance within a care home or similar setting.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Prioritise planned and reactive maintenance to keep areas hazard-free.

Responsibilities

• Carry out routine repairs and monitoring of systems and grounds.
• Address day-to-day maintenance issues and problems.
• Ensure residents' rights, privacy and dignity are maintained when working nearby.
• Check and tag electrical appliances brought into the Home for safety.
• Liaise with external contractors for work outside the team’s expertise.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Independent worker

Health & Safety awareness

Problem solving

Tools

Electrical testing & tagging

General maintenance tools

Job description

Job Vacancy: Maintenance/Handyperson

Location: St Winifreds Care Home in Deal, Kent

Contracted hours: 40 hours (to include some weekend working)

(Hourly) rate of pay: Starting at £13.01

As a Maintenance/Handyperson, you will enjoy being part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing maintenance support, on direction of the Home Manager and Head of Maintenance. Your role will be to carry out routine repairs and monitoring on all systems and systematically solve day-to-day problematical issues which arise to ensure our residents living at St Winifreds Care Home are living in their best environment.

The perfect role for you

With experience of maintenance, you will enjoy working independently and as part of the wider maintenance team within the Care Home. This role will require you to action both planned and reactive maintenance issues and prioritise in terms of urgency, ensuring all areas are free from hazards and all equipment and systems are in full working order.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents and the successful candidate will receive on- going training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

You will have the opportunity to excelwhilst:

The Maintenance/Handyperson responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Assisting in the assessment of the effectiveness of maintenance implementation and delivery.
• Carrying out routine repairs and monitoring on all systems and grounds.
• Systematically solve day-to-day problematical issues which arise.
• Ensuring the residents’ rights are protected and their privacy and dignity are maintained when working in their vicinity.
• Ensuring all electrical appliances bought into the Home by residents, relatives and any other persons are checked and tagged safe for use, under the Health & Safety regulations.
• Liaising with contractors on jobs that fall outside the expertise of the maintenance team.

For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit – https://recruitment.nellsar.com/maintenance-handyperson-job-description/

What we offer in return to your dedication

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• Working in a supportive team
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact St Winifreds Care Home at: 01304 375 758.

Why Choose Us?

Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
• More information about St Winifreds Care Home is available here https://st-winifreds.nellsar.c...
• You will be an important member of the St Winifreds family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!