Position: Maintenance Technician

Care home: Springfield Vale 
Location: Perserverence Street, Barnsley, S70 6HD
Contract type: Full time 40 hours per week
Rate: £13.27 per hour

This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference every day. 

Join us as our new Maintenance Technician at Springfield Vale care home in Barnsley.

If you’re looking for a rewarding maintenance role with a difference, we have the job for you. 

As our Maintenance Technician, you’ll enjoy a varied and challenging role. You’ll be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of our new home, ensuring it’s always in excellent condition. 

At Springfield Vale, you’ll have the rewarding opportunity to ensure a safe and welcoming home for everyone who lives, works and visits here. 

About Exemplar Health Care 

Springfield Vale is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.

When open, Springfield Vale will provide nursing care for adults living with complex needs arising from dementia.

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

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 17th-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 pod1@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.