Part Time Temporary Accommodation Handyperson

Bury Council; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Bury Council in England is seeking a Handyperson to join the Homeless Accommodation team. The role focuses on maintaining emergency accommodation, ensuring health and safety compliance, and providing a welcoming environment for customers.

You will support the team and residents in keeping a portfolio of properties clean and well-maintained, with duties including basic repairs and safety checks. Normal hours are 18.5 per week, with potential rota work depending on service needs.

Qualifications

• Experience of basic property maintenance and cleaning.
• Ability to work on a rota and independently.
• Commitment to health and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and clean council housing properties to a high standard.
• Assist residents and team with basic repairs and safety checks.
• Report faults and coordinate with facilities team.

Job description

Homeless Accommodation and Support Service

About the Handyperson role

An exciting opportunity within the Homeless Accommodation team has become available.

The Homeless Accommodation team provide an essential service to customers accessing emergency accommodation. As part of the team the Handyperson is essential to ensure both health and safety compliance within the accommodation and a welcoming environment for customers.

The successful applicant will be required to support the team and customers in relation to the property to ensure that the portfolio of properties are cleaned and maintained to a high standard.

Normal hours of work are 18.5 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.

About Bury

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.