Maintenance Operative
Company: Hawthorns Retirement
Location:
Upton
NN5 4RR
Northampton
Date Posted: 2025-04-05 08:00:41
Salary: £12.25 per hour
Job Type: Permanent
ABOUT THE ROLE
Your focus as a Maintenance Operative will be to ensure the building and grounds are well maintained, undertaking a variety of routine maintenance tasks, checks to services applying basic fixes to equipment and systems whilst ensuring facilities are fully functional.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out all general maintenance tasks and basic repairs including all electrical, plumbing joinery and building tasks both inside and outside the Home.
- Supporting new residents to arrange their room as they wish.
- Ensuring routine re-decoration is undertaken as required to maintain the standards in the home.
- Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
- Providing out of hours emergency service, participating in the on-call rota.
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.
Our ideal candidate must:
- Have a minimum of one years’ experience in a general maintenance or handy person role and/or hold a professional qualification in a trade.
- Hold a full driving licence.
- Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
- Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
ABOUT THE HAWTHORNS
The Hawthorns is a unique retirement model that offers retirement properties to rent for couples or individuals who seek a rich, independent lifestyle, at beautiful locations across the country. The Hawthorns retirement villages are vibrant and companionable places; we eat together, we have fun together, and we live together. Our vision of ‘creating meaningful lives together’ is reached by the exceptional service and experience we proudly offer throughout our portfolio of four luxurious retirement homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice for residents and employees.
Please note this role will require:
- A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
- Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
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