Maintenance Technician
Meadowcroft, Sutton in Ashfield
Position: Maintenance Technician
Care home: Meadowcroft
Location: Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4BR
Contract type:Full time 40 hours per week
Rate:£12.50ph
Care home CQC rating: Good
This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference every day.
Join us as our new Maintenance Technician at Meadowcroft care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
If you’re looking for a rewarding maintenance role with a difference, we have the job for you.
At Meadowcroft, our Maintenance Technicians ensure a safe and welcoming home for the people we support.
In the role, you’ll ensure that everything works well and looks its best for everyone who lives, works and visits here.
About Exemplar Health Care
Meadowcroft is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.
We support adults living with complex mental health needs.
As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.
About the role
Our Maintenance Technician plays a key role in ensuring that the fabrics, fittings, fixtures and equipment in the home are in good condition.
No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- general maintenance
- decorating
- gardening
- plumbing
- tiling
- carrying out regular risk assessments, audits and checks.
You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do – whether that’s painting bedrooms, building planters in the garden or putting pictures on people’s walls. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.
If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.
Download our job description to read more:
https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029781191
About you
Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
You’re also:
- able to demonstrate a broad range of maintenance skills
- knowledgeable about, and experienced in, health and safety legislation and regulations
- a great communicator, both verbally and in writing
- someone with digital skills and an understanding of how IT works
- a team player
- kind, caring and understanding.
To apply for this role, it may be helpful if you have, or are willing to work towards, a 18th-edition Electrical Certificate.
What we offer
We offer great rewards and perks including:
- regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
- access to wages before payday
- retail and lifestyle discounts
- free DBS check
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility.
How to apply
Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.
For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email pod8@exemplarhc.com.
Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
About Meadowcroft
Meadowcroft is a specialist care service that supports 24 adults living with complex mental health conditions and behaviours of concern.
We support people to live their best lives by promoting independence, building life skills and engaging in the local community.
You’ll usually work on one of our small units so you can get to know the people you support and develop the clinical skills to support their complex needs.
Meet our colleagues
Phil works as a Health Care Assistant at our Dearnevale care home . This is his first care job following a 14 year career in the Royal Air Force. Despite not having any experience in care, the induction, support and training prepared him well for the role. Phil loves how rewarding it is to help people in a career in care.
About Exemplar Health Care
Exemplar Health Care is a leading provider of specialist nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.
Our mission is to make ‘every day better’ for the people we support and our colleagues.
We’re proud of the culture that we’ve created at Exemplar Health Care, which is underpinned by our vision, mission and values.
Learning and career development
Our sector-leading learning and development opportunities give you the skills and support to excel in your role and take your career to the next level.
- Welcome induction and role specific induction
- Care Certificate for new care colleagues
- Exemplar Positive Behaviour Support (EPBS) training
- Role specific apprenticeships, diplomas and qualifications
- ABC of Caring programme for Health Care Assistants
- Leadership and management development programmes
Rewards and benefits
Our care homes live and breathe because of the incredible colleagues who work in them.
Our rewards and benefits are just some of the ways we like to say thank you.
- Paid DBS check
- Lifestyle and retail discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access wages early via fastP.A.Y.E
- Company Shop membership
- Paid NMC membership for Registered Nurses
Our values
Our values underpin everything that we do and ensure that we continue to make every day better for our people.
We look for these values in everyone who works with us.
- Fun
- Integrity
- Responsive
- Success
- Teamwork