As the Multi-Skilled Maintenance Operative at Ashlynn Grange Care Home, you will be responsible for ensuring there is a safe and pleasant environment for all residents and employees, working closely with their teams to provide strong leadership and inspiration ensuring the highest service standards are achieved.
About Ashlynn Grange Care Home:
Ashlynn Grange is an exceptional 153-bed care home in Peterborough. The home prides itself on the surrounding gardens that grow flowers and a variety of different vegetables.
The level of care at Ashlynn Grange is exceptional, and all staff love to keep residents entertained with a full programme of activities and live performances on our outdoor stage. Our newly refurbished café is available to our residents and their visitors, serving a variety of fresh tea, coffee and cakes daily.
About the role:
Reporting to the General Manager, the Maintenance Operative is responsible for ensuring all maintenance checks are conducted, and that the home is a safe environment for residents, team members and visitors whilst maintaining a high quality of service within the home.
Salary:
£14.18 per hour.
Shift Pattern:
37.5 hours per week, worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.
Home Location:
Bretton Gate, Peterborough, PE3 9UZ.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all minor repairs and plumbing are fixed within a timely manner.
- Ensure that all electrical equipment, drainage systems and the boiler house is maintained and repaired if required.
- Ensure that the decoration of the home is to the highest standard and snagging items dealt with in a timely manner.
- Overall responsibility for carrying our weekly tests of the emergency systems within the home.
Training, Skills & Experience Required:
- Experience within a similar maintenance role, ideally within a healthcare environment, is essential.
- Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of and competence in building maintenance.
- Good computer skills in order to complete reporting duties.
What we can offer:
- Fully comprehensive induction.
- Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
- 28 days of holiday per year.
- Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform. Refer a friend scheme.
About Athena:
Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).
We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities.
Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care, clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care.
We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.
