Care Home - Facilities & Home Support Maintenance Operative

Maintenance Operative

Location
Richmond Northampton Village
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Full Time
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Job Description:

Job Title: Maintenance Operative
Location: Richmond Village Northampton,
Bridge Meadow Way, NN4 5EB
Salary: £12.65ph & Excellent Benefits
Contract: Full Time
Shift pattern: 8-4/9-5 MON-FRI ON CALL ON ROTA BASIS

We make health happen

Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.

As a Maintenance Operative, your primary responsibility will be ensuring that our facilities remain fully functional. You will maintain buildings and equipment effectively while complying with all relevant Bupa Standard Operating Procedures, legislation, and industry best practices. Your role is crucial in ensuring our accommodation meets Bupa's cultural and brand values.

You'll help us make health happen by:

  • Ensuring that all maintenance and repair tasks are completed to a high standard with minimal disruption to our residents and visitors, including the maintenance of offices, workshops, and plant rooms
  • Contributing to the management of the maintenance budget, taking the lead as appropriate
  • Carrying out ad-hoc internal decoration of all accessible areas as indicated, ensuring it's maintained to a high standard
  • Reporting unrepairable defects to management, escalating, or seeking specialist repair if required
  • Liaising with, and supporting, our care home-based Maintenance Operatives, including assisting with the induction and training of new starters
  • Ensuring that all health and safety and compliance checks are carried to deadlines, and all policies and guidelines are adhered to at all times
  • Working on call as and when required to support our care home outside of hours

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Essential:

  • A full driving licence is essential

  • You hold a building/electrical/plumbing qualification or relevant experience in a property maintenance or general repairs role.

  • Friendly and approachable, you'll have a good understanding of building services including, heating, hot and cold-water distribution, ventilation, electrical distribution, and plumbing.

  • You understand the importance of maintaining high standards and have knowledge of relevant statutory requirements and compliance. You can work flexibly to meet demands and you're always happy to help the wider team.

  • You'll enjoy working with others and building relationships with our residents.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

  • My Healthcare - Free access to 24/7 support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support

  • Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350

  • Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes

  • 28 days holiday

  • We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.

  • Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!

  • Free meal on every shift

  • Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets

  • We offer a range of Bupa pension plans - find out more on our career site

  • Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents -find out more on our career site

  • Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health

  • Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

Why Bupa

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

** Please note, this role is not at or above RQF Level 3 and is not included under the UK's Points Based Immigration System for sponsorship by an employer.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Care Home - Facilities & Home Support

Locations:

Richmond Northampton Village

Maintenance Operative

Location
Richmond Northampton Village
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Full Time
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Our
purpose

Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.

Our
values

Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.

We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you. 

As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.

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Free to be
you

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. 

You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.

Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.

Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.

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Maintenance Operative

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Richmond Northampton Village
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Full Time
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