Maintenance Operative at Cwrt Enfys (40 hours a week)

To ensure that all aspects of the home are kept safe and well – maintained for residents, team members and visitors, and they comply with internal and external standard and regulations

You will be working alongside 2 other experienced operatives, ensuring that all aspects of the Care Home are kept safe and well-maintained, complying with all internal and external policies, standards, and regulations.

• Ensuring that the home is kept secure
• Ensure that all minor repairs are fixed in a timely manner
• Maintaining the decoration of the home to the highest standard, and any snagging items dealt with in a timely manner
• Assuring that all electrical equipment is PAT test checked on an annual basis, and that residents’ appliances are visually checked and recorded appropriately
• Securing the plant room, tool stores, and sheds, and ensuring that they are regularly maintained and kept clean, tidy and organized
• Ensure that the refuse area is clean and well maintained and that clinical waste is removed appropriately
• Maintaining all external areas keeping them clean, tidy and well maintained
• Responsible for working within legislator frameworks such as: Health and Safety, COSHH, Health and Social Care Act and Environmental Health, thus ensuring that residents and the team have a safe environment
• Ensure that the requirements from audits and remedial action plans are dealt with within the timescales required
• Support with emergencies as appropriate in the home, including out of hours and call outs
• Develop good relationships with residents
• Investigate and act with integrity upon shortfalls in service, to ensure we are open, honest and transparent at all times
• Oversee external work and contractors, and manage accordingly
• Practice safe systems of work across a range of tasks and in particularly moving and handling of loads, by assessing risk and having due regard for personal safety and the safety of the residents, visitors and staff
• Carry out all appropriate checks and record them as per Silvercrest standards
• Carry out quality assurance reporting and budget management documents

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Motivated with a positive can-do attitude
• Flexible and adaptable
• Problem solver

• Ideally worked within a healthcare environment
• Minimum of two years in a maintenance role
• Liaising with and managing external contractors

• Relevant building maintenance experience
• A sound understanding of the main Health and safety Regulations, including COSHH and Risk Assessment
• Relevant building maintenance experience
• A sound understanding of the main Health and safety Regulations, including COSHH and Risk Assessment
• Strong leadership skills
• Knowledge and competence in building maintenance
• Experience in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel