Maintenance Operative

7 months ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom Athena Care Homes (UK) Limited Full time

**_As the Maintenance Operative at Avocet Court Care Home, you will be responsible for ensuring there is a safe and pleasant environment for all residents and employees, working closely with their teams to provide strong leadership and inspiration ensuring the highest service standards are achieved._**

**About Avocet Court Care Home**:
Situated in a residential nook in Ipswich, our 115-bedroom Avocet Court Care Home is surrounded by beautiful gardens. As one of the top residential care homes, we provide exceptional standards of care.

We’re proud to have an award-winning activities team and a newly refurbished café that is the heart of our home. We also have fantastic sustainability credentials, including solar panels and green initiatives to minimise our environmental impact.

**About the role**:
Reporting to the General Manager, the Maintenance Operative is responsible for ensuring all maintenance checks are conducted, and that the home is a safe environment for residents, team members and visitors whilst maintaining a high quality of service within the home.

**Certificates of Sponsorship Are Not Available For This Position**

**Salary**:
£12 per hour.

**Shift Pattern**:
8am to 4pm or 9am to 5pm

**Home Location**:
Monmouth Close, Ipswich, England, IP2 8RS.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Ensure that all minor repairs and plumbing are fixed within a timely manner.
- Ensure that all electrical equipment, drainage systems and the boiler house is maintained and repaired if required.
- Ensure that the decoration of the home is to the highest standard and snagging items dealt with in a timely manner.
- Overall responsibility for carrying our weekly tests of the emergency systems within the home.

**Training, Skills & Experience Required**:

- Experience within a similar maintenance role, ideally within a healthcare environment, is essential.
- Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of and competence in building maintenance.
- Good computer skills in order to complete reporting duties.

**What we can offer**:

- Fully comprehensive induction.
- Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
- 28 days of holiday per year.
- Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
- Annual recognition awards ceremony - The AFTAS.
- Refer a friend scheme.

**About Athena**:
Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

Our aim is to be the provider of choice for our residents and the employer of choice for our team members.

Our purpose is to create excellent quality homely environments with the highest standards of care, catering, housekeeping and activities.

We aim to enhance the lives of our residents and enable them to enjoy life to the full as individuals in happy, comfortable and safe surroundings.



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