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Handyperson - Children and Young People

Posting date:	30 July 2024
Salary:	£12.50 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 August 2024
Location:	SHEFFIELD, S7 1DB
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Sheffield 0009 1F3C / 1

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Handyperson - Children and Young People

Reference no: Sheffield 0009 1F3C / 1

Pay rate: Up to £12.50 per hour PAYE depending on experience

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 08:45 – 17:00

This opening assignment is for 12 months

City: SHEFFIELD

Enhanced DBS required for this role

A Handyperson is required to work at a Care Leavers site and work City wide with Care Experienced young people from the point that they are successful in securing their own tenancy. As a Handy Person, you will have a range of responsibilities, skills, and experience to carry out routine repair and maintenance jobs and carry out a range of minor repairs to building, furniture and equipment. Working with housing, ensuring flats are ready for young people, supporting young people with household maintenance and decorating and providing a point of contact for young people for advice about household maintenance.

Key responsibilities:

Work within the Care Leavers service and provide support in times of emergency.
Maintain the material standards of the flats - domestic decorating, routine repairs and maintenance of fixtures and fittings.
Carry out general maintenance of grounds in all weathers.
Carry out routine checks on lighting systems, fire system, health and safety checks.
Report repairs and maintenance to the Council property management or appropriate contractors and to manage contractors whilst on site.
Maintain information logs, and repair logs where appropriate.
Attend monthly supervisions, performance reviews and staff meetings (as appropriate.)
Provide domestic and cleaning support when required.
Provide rapid responses to damage in the flats to ensure repairs are completed swiftly and standards in the homes maintained.
Build positive relationships with young people.



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:

Numerate and literate.
Willingness to attend appropriate training, and undertake further training as required.
Full driving licence and ability to drive a minibus if required.



Experience & Knowledge:

Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
An understanding of Health & Safety issues including fire, legionella and asbestos management.
An understanding of COSHH regulations.



Skills & Abilities:

Ability to operate domestic / commercial equipment in accordance with departmental, local and statutory health and safety regulations.
Ability to maintain a safe working environment and follow Health and Safety regulations and guidance. To include the moving and handling of objects. Also, to recognise and report any Health and Safety risk or concern or risk to the appropriate officer.
Ability to work within Departmental and Council policies and procedures.
Ability to carry out routine repair and maintenance jobs in the home and to undertake routine checks on the minibus.
Ability to carry out a range of minor repairs to building, furniture and equipment, and to undertake redecoration when required.
Ability to carry out routine cleaning tasks to a high standard.
Ability to demonstrate respect for and build relationships with young people. Ability to relate to others within and outside supported accommodation.
Ability to work flexible hours and covering Bank Holidays.
Ability to be able to use a PC to undertake required eLearning.



***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.

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Job Ref: Sheffield 0009 1F3C / 1


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.