Job Description

Duties


Co-ordinating planned and reactive maintenance reported by staff and/or residents using the maintenance portal, email or phone.

Work directly with the Head of Facilities to ensure our homes provide a safe, well-maintained, and comfortable environment for all residents and care staff.

Ensure the upkeep of our property dashboard, dealing with compliance actions that have been raised by internal and external visits.

Work positively with the Head of Facilities, Service and Home Managers to achieve outcomes for the longer-term tasks such as fit-out, refurbishment, regular servicing, PPM checks, and compliance inspections and remedial work.

Take an active role in the monitoring of any risk areas regarding the homes operations and security and advise the management accordingly.

Respond and work with others to find solutions to emergencies events/issues, including out of hours and occasional weekends.

Undertake and/or coordinate minor repairs to fixtures and fittings as appropriate.

Assisting the Regional Maintenance manager in monitoring maintenance staff conduct, training, timesheets, appraisals, annual leave, and mileage claims

Liaise directly with external contractors to negotiate emergency call outs, site surveys, arrange site access, and contract renewals.

Represent the Head of Facilities in their absence, at executive briefings, progress meetings, H & S visits, Fire Service inspections, and housekeeping meetings.

Benefits

WCS Care offers a range of benefits including:


staff rostering mobile app (BookJane) which lets you check your rota and pick up extra shifts quickly and easily from your phone flexible and scheduled shifts for work/life balance access to faster pay through Wagestream (up to 50% of earned wages before payday) as well as saving accounts, a benefits checker and financial advice employee assistance programme offering health and wellbeing, employment, financial and legal advice to staff and their family members in-house Management and Care Colleges to support team members to progress their careers in care free training online and in-person continual investment in our people, evidenced by our Investors in People Platinum level accreditation auto-enrolment pension scheme referral scheme offering 250 per successful candidate (when they've been with us for 3 months and have worked 3 shifts per week) free workwear, including fleece free DBS check

WCS Care is a registered charity and care home provider with 13 homes in Warwickshire. Eleven of our homes provide residential care for older people and people living with dementia and two of our homes provide care for adults with physical disabilities and lifelong conditions.



As a member of our team at WCS, you'll have the ability to get to know different residents and teams quickly and communicate with a wide range of people confidently.



We think our care team are heroes - in fact, we put it on their fleeces. They bring compassion, patience and love to their work. Whilst there are core elements of the work that everyone needs to do, we support our team members to bring the best of themselves, and their interests and passions, to work.