Handy Person
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £20,000 to £30,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26,813 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | SW12 0AF |
| Company: | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MTVH172974 |
Summary
Position: Handy Person Location: SW12 Salary: £26,813
The role of Handyperson with Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our community's most vulnerable members. We're looking for a skilled individual who can provide responsive and small repairs handyperson services to elderly, disabled, or otherwise vulnerable people across all tenures, ensuring compliance with relevant procedures and Health & Safety legislation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Programming, installing, and servicing Community Alarms and Assistive Technology equipment, with thorough customer guidance on operation.
- Conducting Home Fire Safety Checks and installing Smoke detectors as directed by the Fire and Rescue service.
- Installing equipment for Domestic Violence Customers provided by the Community Safety partnership.
- Collaborating with local authorities and partner agencies on various projects.
- Adhering to Fire & Rescue Guidance on Driving DFRS Vehicles and maintaining accurate mileage records.
- Being accountable for Trade Card usage.
- Identifying areas for improvement, implementing changes, and providing necessary feedback.
- Working collaboratively with colleagues to enhance service effectiveness.
Requirements:
- Skills-based experience and training, ideally from a full craft apprenticeship.
- Flexibility to work occasional extra hours when required.
- Possession of a full UK driving license.
- Willingness to undertake trade and personal development training as requested.
- Preference for candidates with an established trade background.
Given the role's interaction with vulnerable adults accessing healthcare services, candidates must undergo a standard check with the Disclosure and Barring Service upon employment offer, renewed every three years to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality services.
Interviews will be taking place on Tuesday 14th May 2024
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring programme and apprenticeships
- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme