Maintenance Assistant

Job summary

As a Maintenance Assistant at Avocet Court Care Home, you will be responsible for ensuring all checks are complete and a safe environment for residents, team members and visitors whilst maintaining a high quality of service within the home. 

About Avocet Court Care Home: 
Situated in a residential nook in Ipswich, our 115-bedroom Avocet Court Care Home is surrounded by beautiful gardens. As one of the top residential care homes, we provide exceptional standards of care. 

We’re proud to have an award-winning activities team and a newly refurbished cafe? that is the heart of our home. We also have fantastic sustainability credentials, including solar panels and green initiatives to minimise our environmental impact. 

About the role: 
The Maintenance Assistant will work closely with the Maintenance Operative to manage and ensure the safe and pleasant environment for all residents and employees, working closely with wider teams to provide strong leadership and inspiration ensuring the highest service standards are achieved. 

Salary: 
£12.71 per hour. 

Shift Pattern: 
37.5 hours per week, worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

Home Location: 
Monmouth Close, Ipswich, England, IP2 8RS. 

Key Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Ensure that the decoration of the home is to the highest standard and snagging items dealt with in a timely manner.   
• Ensure that all minor repairs and plumbing are fixed within a timely manner.
• Responsibly for the maintenance of the refuse area and the removal of clinical waste and rubbish from the home.   
• Ensure that all electrical equipment and boiler house is maintained and repaired if required.
• Overall responsibility for carrying our weekly, monthly and annual tests of the equipment and systems within the home. 

Training, Skills & Experience Required: 

• Experience in a similar maintenance role is essential.
• Competent in Microsoft Office packages.
• Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills. 

What we can offer: 

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme. 

About Athena:
Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities.  ?

Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care, clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care.?

We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.