Property Services Technician

St Elizabeth Hospice; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Life Cover

Cycle to Work Scheme

Car Leasing Scheme

Health Service Discounts

Occupational Sick Pay

Blue Light Card

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

St Elizabeth Hospice is seeking a Property Services Technician to maintain our hospice buildings and retail units, focusing on high-quality decoration and safe, welcoming environments for patients, staff and visitors.

You will perform maintenance, painting, decorating, and basic repairs, travel between sites with a valid driving licence, and join a charity that values safeguarding and supportive benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in property maintenance, with specific expertise in painting, decorating, and minor repairs is preferred but not essential.
• Strong communication skills and a respectful approach suitable for a healthcare and charity environment.
• A full driving licence is essential to travel between the hospice and our retail units.

Responsibilities

• Property Maintenance: Carry out routine, preventative, and reactive maintenance tasks safely and efficiently.
• Painting & Decorating: Execute high-quality internal and external decorating projects to keep our environments uplifting and well-maintained.
• Safety & Security: Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, maintaining secure premises across all sites.

Skills

Property maintenance

Painting & decorating

Minor repairs

Communication skills

Driving licence

Job description

We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Property Services Technician to deliver a high-standard, efficient maintenance service across our hospice buildings and retail units.

In this role, you will ensure a safe, secure, and welcoming environment for our patients, staff, and visitors at all times.

A primary focus of this position will be maintaining the aesthetic quality of our sites, with a strong emphasis on high-quality internal and external decoration.

Key Responsibilities

• Property Maintenance: Carry out routine, preventative, and reactive maintenance tasks safely and efficiently.
• Painting & Decorating: Execute high-quality internal and external decorating projects to keep our environments uplifting and well-maintained.
• Safety & Security: Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, maintaining secure premises across all sites.

About You

• Skilled Tradesperson: Experience in property maintenance, with specific expertise in painting, decorating, and minor repairs is preferred but not essential.
• Compassionate & Professional: Strong communication skills and a respectful approach suitable for a healthcare and charity environment.
• Mobile: A full driving licence is essential to travel between the hospice and our retail units.

St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness.

Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families. The hospice's work is centred on the individual's needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital or in the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families via the Inpatient Unit, the Community Care Unit including outpatient's clinics, home visits from the community nursing, medical or therapy team, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support.

In 2023, St Elizabeth Hospice merged with East Coast Hospice to form a collaborative approach to developing achievable and sustainable specialist palliative care services for people living the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.

St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.

Hours 17.5 hours per week Weekdays 16:00 - 20:00 and weekends 11:00 - 19:00 Shift pattern week 1: Monday and Saturday Shift pattern week 2: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Discover St Elizabeth Hospice and what it's like to work with us

The hospice offers a generous benefit package, including:

• 27 days annual leave entitlement
• Life Cover
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Car Leasing Scheme
• Health Service Discounts
• Occupational Sick Pay
• Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme