Maintenance Operative

1 week ago

Cambridge UK, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Baca Charity Part time

Responsible to: Premises Manager

Location: Baca office, Cambridge, England. The role will require regular travel to other locations where Baca’s services are delivered

Hours: Part Time, 15 hours including some evening and weekend hours may be required.

Salary: £23,480 to £24,480 per annum pro rata. Equivalent £9,360- £9,792 per annum for 15 hours. Plus £897.00 annual Cambridge Living Allowance.


Overall Purpose

To provide maintenance support to the organisation, ensuring premises are maintained at a standard that will serve the mission of Baca. This will include properties across Cambridge.


Duties Responsibilities

  • Organise and conduct required maintenance at all Baca sites. The below list is not exhaustive but some of the below skills will be required to fulfil the role; General Plumbing; bathroom and kitchen plumbing repairs, blocked toilets & sinks etc, Painting and Decorating, basic carpentry skills, Meter Reading for electricity and gas meters, Fire Testing; routine testing of smoke and CO alarms.
  • To become familiar and actively use the Baca’s maintenance management system which aids the reactive and planned works across all sites.
  • Communicating with contractors, residential workers and landlords as required, ensuring repairs and maintenance is conducted when planned.
  • Administering quarterly checks, quarterly cleans, health and safety requirements and annual servicing such as: PAT testing and Gas safety on properties and reporting issues for follow up.
  • Working alongside the Premises Manager, administer the Health & Safety checks on all Baca properties including the offices, to ensure regulatory requirements are met and associated paperwork is completed.
  • Support in the setting-up and closing down of properties and rooms between moves.
  • Administering the setup and set-down of rooms for young people moves between Baca properties, ensuring the rooms are ready for new young people.
  • Ensuring the office and car parks are clean and tidy, ensuring visitor experience is positive, professional, welcoming, friendly and helpful.
  • Assist the Premises Manager and Finance Manager with year-end Fixed Assets verification.
  • Supporting with other administrative activities in line with the team needs.


General:

  • Play an active and supportive role within the organisation.
  • Take ownership of files allocated, ensuring they are up to date and stored correctly.
  • Maintain strict confidentiality in relation to work undertaken and ensure all confidential material is stored according to Baca’s Confidentiality statement and Data Protection Policy.
  • Embrace the Vision and Values of Baca and reflect this in working practice.
  • Treat all staff and young people fairly and without prejudice, in line with Baca’s Equality and Diversity policy.
  • Be aware of the correct procedures for dealing with any suggested incidences of safeguarding concerns and to follow them, in line with Baca’s Child, Vulnerable Adult Protection & Safeguarding Policy.
  • Adhere to all Baca’s policies and procedures.


Personal Specification

Baca is looking for someone who can help the organisation with the housing maintenance and day to day function of all properties it houses young people in and our offices. The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Baca does and the young people in our care. They will be very organised and practical, able to get on with tasks that need doing on a day-to-day basis, managing a varied and busy workload. They will be very approachable and enjoy working on their own as well as part of a team and supporting others. The successful applicant will need access to transport as the role requires travel between the properties that Baca manages including the transportation of items to the properties.

The successful applicant will have a personable style that is in line with Baca’s vision and values. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable and personable.


Qualifications/Knowledge/Experience

  • Good knowledge/understanding of the building and maintenance process.
  • A good awareness of general health and safety, especially regarding maintenance work.
  • Ability to use computers well, with experience in Microsoft Office and on-line email systems.
  • Experience of prioritising workload to meet competing deadlines.
  • Advocate of customer care including experience of dealing with a range of client queries/concerns in a professional and understanding manner.


Skills/Abilities

  • Experienced in the use of hand tools and familiar working with timber, basic plumbing materials, furniture building, decorating and gardening.
  • Excellent personal organization with a high attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage a number of tasks at any one time.
  • Self-motivated to complete a varied workload.
  • Working well as part of a team is essential.
  • Good interpersonal skills and able to interact well with staff, contractors and visitors to the office and other properties.
  • Ability to work to deadlines and respond in a flexible way to the changing demands of Baca’s work.


Other Expectations

  • Appointment is subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
  • Applicants to have a genuine concern for and commitment to asylum seekers/refugees, young people and UASCs in particular.
  • Ability and commitment to work at all times within a framework of confidentiality and anti-discriminatory practice.
  • Commitment to work within the aims, values and ethos of the organisation.
  • Ability to have flexibility with working hours to facilitate occasional out of office hours access to accommodation for contractors.
  • Holds a full, clean driving licence and has access to transport.


Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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