Peripatetic Head of Maintenance

Overview

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Peripatetic Head of Maintenance at a Barchester care home, you'll travel across your region to ensure a clean and well-maintained environment so that residents feel at home and staff can do their jobs well. Creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere is part of our commitment to delivering first-class care and support. You can expect plenty of variety as a Head of Maintenance with us. You’ll help with tasks within the care home building as well as in the gardens and grounds, from fixing a leaky tap to planting bulbs. You should be comfortable working alone, leading a team and supporting the General Manager with annual budget planning. You will liaise with contractors on jobs outside the expertise of your team.

Main duties of the job

As a Peripatetic Head of Maintenance at a Barchester care home, your role involves traveling across your region to ensure a clean and well-maintained environment. This helps residents feel at home and enables staff to perform their duties effectively. The position entails a variety of tasks within the care home, including both building and garden maintenance. Responsibilities range from fixing a leaky tap to planting new bulbs. You should be comfortable working alone or leading a team, as well as assisting the General Manager with annual budget planning. Liaising with contractors for more specialized work is another key aspect of the role. You must prioritize the wellbeing of residents, ensuring maintenance work is carried out with sensitivity to their needs. A background in property maintenance is required, along with at least one trade skill and a proven ability to handle a wide array of maintenance tasks. Flexibility and reliability regarding working hours, a full UK driving license, IT literacy, and GCSEs in Maths and English or equivalent are also necessary.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a prominent provider of high-quality care services, operating numerous care homes across the UK. As part of its commitment to outstanding care, the organisation emphasizes creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere for residents. Barchester offers a broad range of services, tailored to meet the varying needs of individuals, from residential and nursing care to more specialized health support. Employees at Barchester are given access to excellent training and development opportunities to enhance their skills and support their professional growth. The company provides a variety of benefits, including access to wellbeing tools, retail discounts, a refer-a-friend bonus scheme, and employee reward programs. Barchester takes pride in delivering compassionate, personalized care that aligns with the best standards, aiming to make a significant positive impact on the lives of its residents and their families.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Peripatetic Head of Maintenance at a Barchester care home, you'll travel across your region to make sure we have a clean and well-maintained environment so that residents feel at home and staff can do their jobs well. Creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere is part of our commitment to delivering first-class care and support.

You can expect plenty of variety as a Head of Maintenance with us. You'll turn your hand to all sorts of tasks within the care home building as well as in the gardens and grounds. That could mean fixing a leaky tap one minute and planting some new bulbs the next. You should be comfortable working alone, leading a team and supporting the General Manager with annual budget planning. We'll also need you to liaise with contractors on jobs that fall outside the expertise of your team.

ABOUT YOU The wellbeing of our residents will be your number one priority as a Head of Maintenance at Barchester you'll make sure all work is carried out with sensitivity to their needs. With hands-on experience of property maintenance, you'll have at least one trade skill and, ideally, a proven ability to undertake a wide range of maintenance tasks. You should be reliable and flexible when it comes to your working hours. This role also calls for a full UK driving licence, IT literacy and GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent).

REWARDS PACKAGE In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including: Free training and development for all roles, access to wellbeing and support tools, a range of retail discounts and savings, unlimited referrals with our Refer a Friend bonus scheme, Employee of the Month rewards and Long Service Awards.

And so much more!

If you'd like to use your maintenance and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence, IT literacy, GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent), hands-on experience of property maintenance, at least one trade skill

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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