Maintenance Operative. Burscough Manor Care Home

£12.70 per hour

Full time, 37.5 hours per week

**Shift pattern**: typically 8am - 4pm / 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday (must be available for occasional weekend working if urgent maintenance issues arise)

The Sandstone vision is to provide its residents and staff with the opportunity to live and work in high-quality, modern and dynamic environments, in which our residents and their loved ones can relax, enjoy and call their own home. Looking out over the serene open fields of Burscough's historical airbase, this luxury 80-bedded home nursing home was purpose-built just 2 years ago to deliver exceptional standards of specialist care, including: complex care, dementia care, palliative care, and general residential and nursing care.

Having just taken new ownership of this beautiful home, Sandstone Care Group are excited to develop this setting to its full potential, starting with building an exceptional team of passionate and skilled individuals. As the home is currently at a low occupancy level, this is a fantastic opportunity to ‘make your mark', help to create a positive culture and be part of Burscough Manor's journey as the home grows busier. With highly competitive pay rates on offer, excellent transport links and great development opportunities - why not come along and have a chat with us about career opportunities?

**As a Maintenance Operativeat our home, your role wouldinvolve**:
Maintaining the building and equipment
Carry out routine checks weekly, monthly, annually on systems in the home and ensuring that external checks are carried out within the agreed timeframe
Monitor and respond to the fire alarm call, boilers and lift.
Make effective and efficient use of resources in any maintenance or repair.
Maintain the building, grounds and equipment to ensure the safety of residents, staff and visitors to the House including decoration and repair, minor plumbing works and maintaining the garden areas.
Maintain good communication and relationships with other teams and colleagues at the House.
Maintain awareness of the Home's policies and procedures especially the Fire Policy.
Participate in Training and Development as an individual and as part of the team.
Get involved in the induction of new staff by training them on the building layout and fire policies and procedures.
Maintain client and business confidentiality at all times.
Control and ordering of stock and acceptance and checking of deliveries.
Maintain an awareness of the Health and Safety requirements.
Observe and maintain high levels of communication within the teams of staff, individual colleagues and residents.
Maintain client and business confidentiality at all times.
To carry out any additional duties as requested.

The post-holder will assume responsibility for assisting in providing a safe, secure and attractive environment for our residents by carrying out routine, planned and responsive maintenance for the Home as required.

You will be expected to ensure the upkeep and maintenance of all internal areas of the Home, as well as tending to the gardens, car park and all other external spaces. There will also be a requirement to carry out regular health and safety checks and document these checks accurately and consistently.

Applicants will need to demonstrate significant experience of property maintenance and ideally also be able to undertake very basic plumbing repairs as required. The ability to show initiative and excellent troubleshooting skills are key requirements of this role, as there will at times be a need to provide and/or source solutions to maintenance issues arising at short notice.

**Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits**:
Free uniform. Free Meals*. Free DBS.
Discounts on the high street* - with retailers like Asda, Costa and Argos
Refer-a-Friend - and get a £250 bonus
Flexible pay* - choose when you are paid, and get money management tips too
Free wellbeing programme - helping you look after your physical and mental health
Employee recognition scheme - we recognise and reward great work
Pension scheme - helping you plan for your retirement
In-house training - on-going face-to-face training, tailored to you
Career opportunities - The chance to ‘make your mark' and play a key role

**Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer**: