General Maintenance Person - #192397

Dovehaven Care Homes


Date: 2 hours ago
City: Southport
Salary: £13.45 per hour
Contract type: Full time

*Please note we do not offer Sponsorship*

Dovehaven Care Homes are recruiting for a Maintenance Person to join our team at Dovehaven Residential Care Home and Argyle Park Care Home in Southport, working Monday- Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm, 40hr Contract avalible. The hours will be split between the 2 homes - 20hrs at each care home per week.

Dovehaven Rest Home is a friendly and established care home in Southport providing high-quality care and support for elderly residents in a safe, comfortable, and welcoming environment.

Take a look at the home: https://dovehaven.co.uk/our-homes/dovehaven-residential-home

About The Role

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the general maintenance of the care home, ultimately ensuring the safety of all residents, visitors and employees.

  • General Internal Maintenance: furniture, fixtures and fittings, equipment basic heating faults
  • General Exterior: Maintain grounds & gardens, fences and furniture, clear snow and grit paths, clean all signs & lighting.
  • Safety: Identify hazards and risks, testing of fire alarm, liaise with contractors onsite, maintain a maintenance book. Ensure paints & varnishes are stored correctly, test and record water temps
  • Moving & Handling: assisting receiving deliveries and storage
  • General duties as requested by the home manager or maintenance manager*

About You

Our ideal Maintenance Person will have the following:

  • Essential Experience of DIY and decorating
  • Caring nature
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team and individually
  • Flexibility and be able to adapt to the needs of Residents
  • Full clean driving licence
  • A Health & Safety or Maintenance qualification is desirable
  • Previous experience within a Care or Nursing Home setting or similar

All applicants will be subject to satisfactory references and all employees are checked against the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

If you would like to read the DBS code of practice please copy and paste this link into your browser:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-code-of-practice

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