Handyperson

Home Group

Applications Closed

Posted 24 days ago

Full Time

Affton, Missouri

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

Perform minor repairs, decorating, and cleaning across supported accommodation properties and communal areas. Conduct regular fire safety checks and coordinate with contractors for repairs outside the handyperson's remit.

Qualifications

You possess general maintenance know-how, including basic carpentry, plumbing, and painting skills. You are a team player with a can-do attitude and are comfortable using technology for job-related tasks. A valid driver's license is required, and you will be provided with a company van.

Must Have Skills for ATS

carpentry

basic plumbing

painting

mowing lawns

fire safety checks

DBS check

Job Description

Handyperson

Salary £26,300 per annum

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw), Monday to Friday 9am until 5pm

Hull & East Yorkshire

We can’t offer CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

We have a brilliant opportunity to join our fantastic, supported accommodation services in East Yorkshire. We are the multi skilled hands-on practical support that helps our colleagues deliver services to our customers.  

We work with customers who have varying support needs, across a mix of properties and grounds. As our handy person, you’ll spend much of your time working across our amazing services in East Yorkshire.

What’s in it for you?  

  • 34 days leave, (including bank holidays and a “me day”)  

  • Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%25, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary) 

  • Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies 

  • Instant pay access with Stream

  • Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses 

What you'll do

  • Perform minor or emergency repairs, decorating and cleaning in properties and communal areas.

  • Handle tasks like hanging curtain poles, moving furniture, touching up paint, changing washers, unblocking sinks, mowing lawns and clearing grounds. 

  • Carry out regular fire safety checks.

  • Work with colleagues, contractors and customers.

  • Liaise with Customer Service Centre and contractors to report and follow up on repairs outside your remit.

Why join us

Your skills make a real difference to people's lives and communities. You’ll have the tools, trust and training to do your best work and see the impact it makes. Be part of one of the UK’s top Great Places to Work!

You have

  • A team player with a can-do attitude and enthusiasm.

  • General maintenance know-how, a bit of carpentry, basic plumbing and confidence with a paintbrush or broom   

  • Comfortable working and communicating with people from all walks of life.

  • Ability to use technology for accessing emails, logging and recording of jobs and Health & Safety tasks. 

  • To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle, The great news is that we’ll provide a Home Group van! 

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

  • We mainly work Monday - Friday, 9am to 5pm, but we’re flexible as long as we meet our customer’s needs.

  • You'll be based at Hull and travel around the properties in our East Yorkshire region, mostly in Hull, Scunthorpe, Driffield, Scarborough and Doncaster.

  • Occasionally you'll head outside the patch for all hands-on deck situations.

  • You’ll need a Standard DBS check, we pay for it.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Handy Person Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Roles can close early, so don’t wait.

For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.

Home Group

We're Home Group, a housing association, social enterprise and charity with a turnover of £505m and one of the UK's largest providers of high quality housing and integrated housing, health and social care. We're proud of the difference that we have made over the last 90+ years and we continue to work hard to support over 125,000 customers who live in more than 57,000 homes across England and Scotland. Our aim is to build homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! We're the 17th best place to work in the UK, the 4th best in the North East and the 8th best for women. Our apprenticeship programme is award winning; in 2019 we were named large employer of the year and large north east employer of the year in 2020. If you want to find out more about us, visit our website below.
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