Maintenance Person

**Maintenance Team Member**

**Salary: £26-28k**

**Hours**: 40 hours a week. Occasional weekend/evening overtime for emergencies.

**Location**: Barnstaple and surrounding areas.

**Reporting to**: Finance director and wider SMT team.

**About us**:
Blue Elephant Childcare is an exciting organisation offering residential placements for children and young people, in properties owned or leased to the company.

We are a growing company currently with 8 homes in the North Devon area. We will imminently be opening our next home and have plans for the ones following.

We specifically operate in the North Devon area; Barnstaple is the main hub with all homes within a 25-mile radius of Barnstaple. As we grow this region may expand as needs dictate.

We are an inclusive company who listens to its staff and respects suggestions and ideas that improve the service we give to our children. The role is diverse and requires skills in problem solving resource management and imaginative solutions to unfamiliar problems.

**Main responsibilities**:

- To help us provide a safe and pleasant living environment for the children we care for.
- Routine maintenance and repairs of residential properties as and when required. This could include:

- Painting and decorating.
- Property/furniture repairs where they have been damaged.
- Minor plumbing and electrical repairs.
- Furniture building and moving.
- General DIY.
- Fire door upkeep and hanging.
- Fire alarm systems testing.
- Garden maintenance to include mowing/strimming of grass areas/banks.
- Keeping the grounds, including fences, hedges, trees, shrubs, and gates in good repair.
- Regular inspections of residential properties to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
- Consult with your line manager to plan works in a timely, cost-effective manner.
- To provide advice and telephone support to the staff team during emergency situations. Where required attend to the sites out of hours to ensure the safety of our clients.
- Regular inspection of all equipment. Reporting to your line Manager for any replacement/servicing required.
- To liaise with external professional bodies organising relevant regulatory checks e.g. water/samples.

**Knowledge & Skills**:

- To be aware of safeguarding requirements, whilst working around our children and their settings.
- Previous maintenance person experience required.
- Knowledge of carpentry, and any other core maintenance-oriented areas would be advantageous.
- Good attention to detail - completing jobs independently and in a systematic way.
- Proactive and personable with excellent communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- An understanding and enthusiasm for the work Blue Elephant do.
- Full driving licence and able to drive a manual vehicle.

**Benefits**:
What we offer:

- A competitive salary
- 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Christmas Bonus
- Christmas Hamper
- Annual ‘Thank You’ party for you and your family
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health & Wellbeing benefit scheme from start date
- Blue Light card (cost covered)
- Wellbeing events throughout the year
- The opportunity to grow the role alongside the growth of the organisation
- Use of company vehicle and tools for Blue Elephant Childcare business purposes
- Full training in safeguarding and other essential training for the role.

**Additional information**:
The content of the role as reflected in the job description may change from time to time.

**Other duties**:
To undertake any other duty within your ability and within reason, as may be required from time to time, at the direction of your line manager or company directors. Please note that occasionally, as with all Blue Elephant staff, you may be called upon to assist during anti-social hours.

**PLEASE NOTE**:

- If you are invited to an interview, proof of experience, qualifications and references from previous employers will be required.

Start date: ASAP

Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

- Yearly bonus

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person