Maintenance Assistant

As a Maintenance Assistant at Ashlynn Grange 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 Ashlynn Grange Care Home: 
Ashlynn Grange is an exceptional 153-bed care home in Peterborough. The home prides itself on the surrounding gardens that grow flowers and a variety of different vegetables. 

The level of care at Ashlynn Grange is exceptional, and all staff love to keep residents entertained with a full programme of activities and live performances on our outdoor stage. Our newly refurbished café is available to our residents and their visitors, serving a variety of fresh tea, coffee and cakes daily. 

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: 
£11.44 per hour. 

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

Home Location: 
Bretton Gate, Peterborough, PE3 9UZ. 

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). 

Our aim is to be the provider of choice for our residents and the employer of choice for our team members. 

Our purpose is to create excellent quality homely environments with the highest standards of care, catering, housekeeping and activities. 

We aim to enhance the lives of our residents and enable them to enjoy life to the full as individuals in happy, comfortable and safe surroundings.