Maintenance Manager

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New Career, New You, New Opportunity; New Care!

Our stunning care home The Grand Care Centre is a purpose built care home facility in West Bridgford, Nottingham. The home is registered to provide care to 82 residents who have a variety of care needs including residential, nursing and dementia residential. The Grand is rated GOOD in all domains by CQC. We provide the highest standards of safety, comfort and care to residents. We are in a great location and have a very good local reputation. New Care has had a 0 agency usage for over 4 years as we employ a permanent staff team to ensure continuity of care to residents from staff that know them and that residents know and trust. Across New Care all of our staff are paid the national living wage or above.

We are seeking to appoint a kind, organised and experienced Maintenance Manager to join our team. To ensure that the buildings, equipment and fixtures are maintained in good, safe working order, compliant with safety regulations and records updates. Responsible for the maintenance of the accommodation that it is in a constant clean and attractive condition. We have a 40 hours contract available with a competitive salary! Shift times are 0800-1630, Monday to Friday. Flexibility may be required to meet the needs of the business.

Role Responsibilities:

• Carry out regular inspections throughout the Home, monitor and action plan any maintenance issues found.
• Report defects requiring specialist attention in a timely manner.
• Carry out domestic painting, decorating and wallpapering to a schedule defined by the Home Manager, and ensure bedrooms are of good standard for new admissions.
• Carry out minor joinery work and minor plumbing.
• Undertake regular inspections/room checks to identify any defects that need rectifying and enter into the maintenance log book to create a schedule for completion.
• To undertake and prioritize other tasks as required by the Management team.
• Ensure all compliance documents are up to date.
• Carry out Health and Safety and Fire Safety drills and training as required.
• Complete Legionella testing in liaison with consultants.
• Take responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of adults that the post holder is responsible for or comes into contact with.

Skills and experience required:

• Experience in basic plumbing, electrical, joinery or gardening work is essential.
• Specialist skills in a building trade is preferable.
• Ability to use basic tools and operate equipment.
• Must have a full clean driving license.
• Must be reliable and be able to communicate with residents and other members of staff.
• Care home background is preferable.

The Benefits

Opportunities to progress through our career paths into more senior and management roles

• Bank holiday and overtime enhancements
• 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum
• Paid DBS
• Uniform provided
• Paid training
• Refer a friend referral scheme, for the following roles only - Registered Nurse, Team Leader / Senior Care Assistant and Care Assistant
• Excellent induction programme for new starters
• A rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress within the company
• Ongoing support and training for nationally recognised qualifications
• A competitive rate of pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing programmes
• Recognition awards - employee of the month and golden tickets
• Ongoing career development
• Travel plan - walk or ride a bike and get a free meal that day
• Christmas Bonuses
• Pension scheme
• HASTEE - access to your money as you earn (pay advance)

About New Care

The care philosophy of New Care aims to ensure all residents maintain the highest level of independence and achieve their full potential whatever that may be - physical, intellectual, emotional or social. We believe this philosophy can be achieved by providing professional, person- centred care, nurturing each resident individually exploring and understanding their needs. The health, well-being and happiness of our residents is always our number one priority.

Each New Care home is purpose built and expertly designed with the needs of our residents in mind. Internally the design is luxurious yet comfortable and practical.

The company ethos 'To celebrate the wonder of people' relates to all those who are part of the New Care family, residents, their family and friends, staff members and professional visitors. Ultimately we want residents to live their lives to the fullest and to be proud of their home and feel happy to invite their family and friends to visit.

This position is subject to a DBS check