Maintenance Person

Maintenance Person

Based at Abbotts Barton (SO23 7HB) and St Catherines View (SO22 4BL) in Winchester, Hampshire.

40 hours per week

Pay rate: £15.20 per hour

About the role:

The Maintenance Person provides routine maintenance services and minor repair work within our care homes. Safe, reliable facilities are essential to our residents’ individual well-being. You will agree priorities with your line manager and carry out monthly tests and inspections on equipment such as fire doors, water temperature outlets, fire extinguishers, security doors, internal and external lighting, wheelchair, window restrictors, reclining chairs and nursing beds. A central part of the maintenance role is administrative, keeping accurate records via our maintenance software system and reporting issues or observations to the Facilities Management team to ensure the home is safe and meets both Colten Care and Regulatory standards.

In addition to the planned maintenance tasks, you will also provide a wide range and number of reactive repairs and requests including the checking and repair of profile beds, fitting shelves and picture hooks, changing light bulbs, securing door handles or helping to move furniture. You’ll have a keen eye for detail, reviewing your reactive requests raised on the maintenance software system for matters requiring attention and providing a responsive approach to the various maintenance needs of the care home. You’ll be a car driver and own your own car, as you’ll be covering two homes during the working week.

**Essential requirement- Business insurance is essential due to travel during work hours**

Benefits:

• Excellent one to one induction, mentoring and ‘on the job’ support
• Friendly team and great support network of internal professionals
• Real career progression opportunities
• Annual pay review
• Additional hours / overtime opportunities
• Choice of hot or cold meals and drinks on duty
• Free uniforms
• Contributory pension scheme
• Background checks at no cost to you

About Colten Care

We’re an award-winning, family-owned, independent care home group, with an outstanding reputation within the industry thanks to our amazing people and our focus on keeping the resident at the heart of everything we do.

We challenge the stereotype of a care home, that’s why all 21 of our nursing homes are rated at least good and 7 are outstanding by the CQC, our national regulator.

For the 8^th year running, we’ve been named as one of carehome.co.uk Top 20 Care Home Groups in the UK, by the residents and their families who have first-hand experience of the care and support being given at our care homes.