Maintenance

Maintenance

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Position: Maintenance  
Care Home: Fairwinds
Location: Rotherham (S61 1AJ)
Contract type: Permanent - 40 Hours Per Week
Shifts Available: 40 hours hours per week 
Rate/Salary: £13.77 per hour
 

This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference every day!

Join us as our new Maintenance Operative at Fairwinds care home in Rotherham.

If you’re looking for a rewarding maintenance role with a difference, we have the job for you. 

At Fairwinds, our Maintenance Operatives ensure a safe and welcoming home for the people we support. 

In the role, you’ll ensure that everything works well and looks its best for everyone who lives, works and visits here. Come and join our friendly and professional team!

About Exemplar Health Care 

Fairwinds is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of specialist nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. 

We support adults living with complex mental health needs. The home has two small units - one that's exclusively for people who identify as female. 

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Maintenance Operative plays a key role in ensuring that the fabrics, fittings, fixtures and equipment in the home are in good condition.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

- Carry out decorating and redecorating as directed
- Assist in emergency evacuations and fire drills & carry out weekly fire checks
- Pat testing of electrical equipment
- Liaise with external contractors
- Ensure smooth running of plant machinery and equipment, including gas, electric, oil, and water installation
- Complete maintenance checks identified in the maintenance manual and regulative checks
- Ensure health & safety of self, Service Users, staff and contractors/visitors
- Safe handling of equipment and chemicals
- Possess and maintain a valid driving licence
- Electrical, Plumbing and Joinery work
- Being available for emergency call outs
- An enhanced DBS disclosure is required.

You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do – whether that’s painting bedrooms, building planters in the garden or putting pictures on people’s walls. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards!

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

About you
Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• able to demonstrate a broad range of maintenance skills
• knowledgeable about, and experienced in, health and safety legislation and regulations 
• a great communicator, both verbally and in writing
• someone with digital skills and an understanding of how IT works 
• a team player
• kind, caring and understanding.

To apply for this role, it may be helpful if you have, or are willing to work towards, a 17th-edition Electrical Certificate. 

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including: 

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects 
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.