Builder

**Builder**

**Wiltshire/Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire**

**Salary - £23,882-£29,724 per annum - depending on skills and experience.**

**Contract type - permanent**

**Working hours - Full Time**

**Closing Date - 15 February 2024**

**Interview Date - TBC**

**About the role**

You will complete maintenance work in occupied and unoccupied properties unsupervised.

You will repair or replace items to maintain properties to a high standard.

You will work with and support other members of the Planned/ Responsive Maintenance / Void Team to ensure that the quality and performance targets for the team are met.

You will achieve a first time fix on as many jobs as possible, taking responsibility where follow-up work is required for ensuring robust arrangements are in place to make sure the work is completed.

Your role will be to manage an electronic diary, keeping management, colleagues and the contact centre updated on progress and any problems.

You will record in a timely and accurately manner details of jobs including status, materials and labour using the electronic handheld device (PDA).

**Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require a DBS check to be completed. Further details will be sent following offer.**

**About you**

You will have or working towards NVQ Level 2 in Construction Operations.

You must have experience of labouring duties in the maintenance or building related sector.

You will assist in the refurbishment of properties including; kitchens, bathrooms, disabled adaptations, roofs, communal areas and community buildings.

You will be able to ensure the safe and proper use of all mechanical and non-mechanical plant and equipment under their direct control.

You will be able to work without immediate supervision in the most economical manner.

You will have the ability to work at heights from ladders, scaffolding, lifting platforms and cherry pickers.

**About us**

GreenSquareAccord is one of the biggest social housing and care providers in England.

We believe passionately in our mission to build better lives and provide social housing and support services to 54,000 people across our four localities. We are proud to play an active role in helping people to deal with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.

We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.

**Our purpose**

We are proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently.

Our focus is on building better lives. Everything we do is about people - whether that's providing a good quality, safe home or providing care which helps someone to live an independent life.

Our colleagues live and breathe this social purpose and we need great people, with skills across a range of disciplines, to make this happen.

**The GSA Way**

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.

A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.

Our five core commitments are:

- We believe our customer is everything
- We are one team
- We are supportive and caring
- We are business-minded for social purpose
- We are curious and ambitious.

You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack.

**Benefits**

In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
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