Maintenance Assistant (St Albans)
- Posted 09 July 2025
- Salary £23,850- £26,000 per annum
- LocationCardiff
- Business Area Property, Facilities & Maintenance
- Reference051297
- Closing Date 06 August 2025
Job description
Location: Cardiff, CF24 2NT
Shifts: 37.5 hours per week, may include some weekends
Salary: £23,850- £26,000
Sponsorship: We do not provide sponsorship for this role
About Us
We’re one of the largest adult social care providers in the UK today – and we plan to keep growing and benefiting more lives.
Our support is dynamic, person-centred and fulfilling, so people can enjoy a flourishing life. We deliver care and support with energy, passion and positivity.
Through our Residential, Supported Living and Complex Care services, we support people’s interests and inspire new ones. We do this through a mix of bigger planned activities and smaller everyday goals and tasks. We really understand each individual, so we create a person-centred plan to help them Strive every day.
We're very proud to be recognised as one of the best organisations to work in by ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024 and 2025!’
Your responsibilities:
* Positive communication with service managers, meeting with them regularly to understand their priorities and to outline progress with works currently being undertaken and those planned.
* Ensure great standards and that all services are maintained to a high standard. Working independently or alongside your team complete general maintenance, decoration and grounds maintenance activities that are from time to time required, including minor electrical and plumbing works.
* Liaise and support the project team as required.
* All work is completed safely and that the process for Risk assessments is followed.at all times.
* Maintain the CAFM system updated with activity completed each day.
* Coordinate and allocate reactive and planned maintenance activity.
* Oversee the works undertaken by both your own works and external contractors, ensuring safe working and excellent quality.
* Support the statutory compliance program administered by the Property Support Hub, meeting contractors and service managers to resolve significant issues.
* Seek technical or specialist support where required, to ensure that works are conducted in conjunction with statutory standards and best practice.
* Support energy reduction activity.
* Be willing to provide out of hours cover through an on-call rota.
* Keep up to date with company policies and procedures.
* Make judgements and escalate when maintenance activity, or a particular situation has arisen that requires the attention of a more appropriate person.
Skills and experience:
* Previous experience of working in maintenance, or similar.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Ability to prioritise effectively.
* Good technical knowledge and understanding of when and how to seek specialist expertise.
* Confident IT user.
* Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
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