Independent Living Handyperson
| Posting date: | 25 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £12.62 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | COVENTRY, CV3 2SU |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | OBT PX4TL |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Independent Living Handyperson
Reference no: OBT PX4TL
Pay rate: £12.62 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36.25 Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: COVENTRY
Enhanced DBS required for this role
An Independent Living Handyperson is required to cover the Stratford upon Avon / South Warwickshire area. To provide a localised handy person service to sheltered and extra care schemes within a region. The handy person will support the customers by completing small repairs in and around the customers home that customers have responsibility for, and which may affect their safety, security and comfort while living in the scheme. To provide a high standard cleaning service to communal areas in blocks including lifts, stairwells, floors, walls and windows.
Key responsibilities:
Assist and encourage residents in completing minor repairs and jobs in the home, and deal with day to day maintenance issues across Independent Living schemes and the wider community.
Responsible for providing a high standard cleaning service to communal areas in blocks including lifts, stairwells, floors, walls and windows. To maintain clear, tidy and safe refuse areas such as bin stores, chute rooms and hoppers, following specific cleaning specifications and standards.
Responsible for reporting faults and repairs, situations concerning anti-social activity, fly tipping as seen on the estates to the CSC.
Undertake external work within schemes and customer’s properties.
Ensure accurate records are kept and all allocated work is completed to a high standard within a timely manner.
Assist other members of the Independent Living team with Health and Safety checks and other scheme-based tasks, ensuring all relevant policies and procedures are adhered to at all times.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Hold a full UK driver’s license.
Experience:
Experience of working in a similar role.
Experience of trade background desirable.
Experience of carrying out a wide range of small repairs and adaptations.
Knowledge of Health and Safety and ability to write risk assessments.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge and/or experience of the issues faced by older people or vulnerable groups.
Skills & Abilities:
Ability to negotiate with and influence the customer with the aim of delivering assistance and improving the quality of life for the individual in question.
Possess a pleasant and caring disposition.
Able to work on own initiative.
Ability to maintain accurate records both written and electronically.
Excellent standard of reading, writing and numeracy.
Competent user of ICT, with the ability to send emails, compose and print letters, complete online forms and be able to use in-house IT packages.
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.
SC
1
Job Ref: OBT PX4TL
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.