Title : Maintenance Personnel
Location: Travel throughout designated area
Responsible to: Contracts Manager
Main Objectives
To undertake general maintenance duties to ensure the homes within the designated area of responsibility is maintained to an adequate level.
Duties & Responsibilities:
· Ensuring the maintenance of homes is consistently at a high standard.
· Ensuring that the homes are externally maintained to include, gardening, external painting, general tidiness, basic repairs.
· To carry out any internal decorating to a high standard.
· External window cleaning
· Rectifying damage professionally internally and externally
· Coordinate refurbishment as required through external contractors.
· Respond to emergency maintenance as and when it arises including boarding up windows, replacing locks, roof repairs.
· Ensure the homes are ready for inspection and are not penalized by regulators for being in a poor state of repair.
· To carry out minor electrical repairs .
· Ensure that the homes remain comfortable and welcoming for the children to live in and that oil levels are monitored.
· Manage allocated petty cash budget.
· Working quickly and effectively within given timescales.
· Carpentry, i.e. door hanging, frame fitting, putting up shelves, boarding up windows, doors and minor furniture repairs
· Minor plumbing tasks eg leaks, replacing boilers, radiator repairs etc
· To carry out a monthly check on the house cars and change oil etc as required.
· Other duties as required
Hours of work – hours per week will depend on need within area. Hours will be worked over 7 days to ensure continuous service to the homes.
Equipment will be provided and you have a duty to maintain it in a good state of cleanliness and repair.
You will be expected to drive from home to home in your designated area so a driving license is essential.
Empathy towards looked after children is essential as well as being reliable, hardworking and flexible.