Maintenance Support

Children's Team

22 Oct

Written By Cat Abbott

Are you looking to help extraordinary people achieve extraordinary things? Diverse Abilities offers you the opportunity to achieve this and is now recruiting for Maintenance Support at The Treehouse.

Hours: 16 hours per week

Location: The Treehouse, Christchurch

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Managed by: Facilities Manager

Rate: £11.44 per hour

Overall purpose:

To maintain the grounds of The Treehouse, whilst also conducting minor repairs to the grounds or the building. Supporting the Facilities Manager to perform health and safety checks and liaise where needed with external contractors. Assisting in driving vehicles when required

Commitment to safeguarding

Diverse Abilities is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Please ensure a full work history is completed in your application form including any gaps of employment. Applicants will be required to complete satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) check is required for this post prior to commencement. The Charity is an equal opportunities employer.

This role requires staff to

Maintaining grounds by mowing lawns, clearing leaves and gritting paths when necessary

Inspecting, fixing and maintaining equipmen

Completing scheduled maintenance tasks

Conducting preventative maintenance and identifying when items need upgrading or replacing

Liaising with contractors to ensure that they complete projects on time

Painting and decorating or conducting repairs to flooring and other fittings

Supporting Short Breaks Management team to be compliant with all Health and Safety checks

Lead the gardening volunteers and ensure that task are completed that are required.

Assisting with driving vehicles to meet the needs of the charity

Benefits

We offer a wide range of employee rewards and benefits. These include access to thousands of retailer, restaurant, entertainment and hotel discounts through Blue Light Card, auto-enrolment pensions, paid accrued holiday, and a cycle to work scheme.