Multi-skill Trades Painter and Decorator - Gloucester, Gloucestershire
| Posting date: | 11 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,320 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 1AA |
| Company: | Platform Housing Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1128132 |
Summary
Have you got the right tools for the job?
Calling all experienced Multi Skill Trades Painter and Decorators - can you give our homes the perfect finish?
We are looking for an experienced Painter and Decorator to join our talented and busy Programme team and help maintain our homes in and around the Evesham, Bishops Cleeve, Tewkesbury and Pershore area.
What could you be doing?
Putting the finishing touch to our Kitchens and Bathrooms you will be an important part of a busy team delivering Kitchen and Bathroom fittings in this area. With a passion for detail, you will have the ability to work on your own initiative. If you also have additional trade skills, especially experience of tiling you should really get in touch!
We want somebody who can:
A team player, you’ll be hard working and keen to learn with a can-do attitude. You’ll be working in people’s homes, so you’ll need to be friendly and approachable with good communication and customer service skills. You’ll also need to be organised and recognise the importance of delivering work right first time.
Some things we need from you:
• You will have served an apprenticeship in Painting and Decorating or obtained an equivalent City & Guilds qualification
• Extensive time served in Painting, Decorating and associated trade skills
• It would be desirable if you had tiling skills but if not a willingness to learn tiling as this will be part of the role
• Good organisational skills
• Experience of keeping jobs on track
• Takes ownership, responsibility for their tasks and has a right first-time approach
• Works well alone but also as part of a team
• The drive to ensure works are completed quickly and efficiently whilst meeting strict deadlines
• Full current valid driving Licence essential as this is a mobile role
• As you will be working in customers’ homes you will need a DBS check.
Check out some of our core benefits
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy and sell leave.
• PPC Van with Fuel Card
• Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
• Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts.
• Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
• Pension contribution scheme with employer contributions of up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
• Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers
Platform Property Care, part of Platform Housing Group, is a well-established property maintenance business. Working with us is more than just a job. We value the contribution that our colleagues make to our business; our vision is clear – we are growing fast, and we aim to achieve our plan through an engaged and highly skilled team.
If this sounds like the place for you then we’d love to hear from you! To find out more about this role, please contact Martin Sparrey, Service Manager, at martin.sparrey@platformhg.com for a chat.
This role is a permanent contract with Platform Housing Group/ Platform Property Care, working predominantly on a contract supplying repairs and maintenance to Rooftop Housing Group.
This role is mobile, so it is essential you have a current valid driving licence. Unfortunately, we cannot progress applications from applicants who do not hold this.
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
Calling all experienced Multi Skill Trades Painter and Decorators - can you give our homes the perfect finish?
We are looking for an experienced Painter and Decorator to join our talented and busy Programme team and help maintain our homes in and around the Evesham, Bishops Cleeve, Tewkesbury and Pershore area.
What could you be doing?
Putting the finishing touch to our Kitchens and Bathrooms you will be an important part of a busy team delivering Kitchen and Bathroom fittings in this area. With a passion for detail, you will have the ability to work on your own initiative. If you also have additional trade skills, especially experience of tiling you should really get in touch!
We want somebody who can:
A team player, you’ll be hard working and keen to learn with a can-do attitude. You’ll be working in people’s homes, so you’ll need to be friendly and approachable with good communication and customer service skills. You’ll also need to be organised and recognise the importance of delivering work right first time.
Some things we need from you:
• You will have served an apprenticeship in Painting and Decorating or obtained an equivalent City & Guilds qualification
• Extensive time served in Painting, Decorating and associated trade skills
• It would be desirable if you had tiling skills but if not a willingness to learn tiling as this will be part of the role
• Good organisational skills
• Experience of keeping jobs on track
• Takes ownership, responsibility for their tasks and has a right first-time approach
• Works well alone but also as part of a team
• The drive to ensure works are completed quickly and efficiently whilst meeting strict deadlines
• Full current valid driving Licence essential as this is a mobile role
• As you will be working in customers’ homes you will need a DBS check.
Check out some of our core benefits
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy and sell leave.
• PPC Van with Fuel Card
• Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
• Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts.
• Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
• Pension contribution scheme with employer contributions of up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
• Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers
Platform Property Care, part of Platform Housing Group, is a well-established property maintenance business. Working with us is more than just a job. We value the contribution that our colleagues make to our business; our vision is clear – we are growing fast, and we aim to achieve our plan through an engaged and highly skilled team.
If this sounds like the place for you then we’d love to hear from you! To find out more about this role, please contact Martin Sparrey, Service Manager, at martin.sparrey@platformhg.com for a chat.
This role is a permanent contract with Platform Housing Group/ Platform Property Care, working predominantly on a contract supplying repairs and maintenance to Rooftop Housing Group.
This role is mobile, so it is essential you have a current valid driving licence. Unfortunately, we cannot progress applications from applicants who do not hold this.
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
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