Vacancy: Multi Skilled Carpenter (Voids)

Closing date: Thursday 16 April

Shortlisting: Friday 17 April

Proposed Interview date: w/c 20 April

Salary: £29,626.51

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - 12months - 35hrs

About the vacancy:

We're looking for a skilled and versatile Multi-Skilled Carpenter to join our Property & Place team, helping us maintain and improve homes for our residents. In this hands-on role, you'll carry out a wide range of carpentry repairs and installations - from doors and windows (including fire doors) to stairs, locks, and roofing components. Using your multi-trade skills, you'll also support with basic plumbing, tiling, plastering, painting, fencing, glazing, and locksmith work, ensuring a safe and high-quality service every time.

In this role you'll play a key part in delivering an efficient, customer-focused repairs service, working closely with colleagues, using your trade knowledge to support surveys, and ensuring repairs are completed to the highest standard and within required timescales. You'll also help mentor apprentices, maintain accurate records, uphold health and safety, and positively represent the organisation within the community.

If you're adaptable, professional, committed to excellent workmanship, and want to make a real difference to the homes and lives of our residents, this could be the role for you.

Specifically, in the role you will:

• Undertake full removal and disposal of items, including full fitted kitchens and wardrobes, attic space and conservatories; de-nail and decking when required. This may involve exposure to rodents, bodily fluids and other hazards.
• Undertake preliminary visual fault and defect inspection and feedback to line manager.
• Undertake multi-skilled ancillary tasks associated with the primary role objective, where and when required. Specifically, the multi-skilling elements of the role will be inclusive of but not limited to:
• Basic carpentry e.g. works would involve removing/refitting boxing, replacing bath panels, fitting ply to walls for radiators and replacing small sections of skirting.
• Basic tiling, which will be limited to touch up's and making good.
• Basic plumbing e.g. removing, replacing and reconnecting sinks. Working with copper pipework and plastic solvent weld waste. Unblocking toilets, sinks, baths and showers and replacing toilet seats and shower curtains ensuring safe isolation of hot and cold feeds.
• Basic painting, which will be limited to touch up's and making good.
• Basic plastering, which will be limited to touch up's and making good.
• Undertake insulation of attics, when required.
• Undertaking overboarding of ceilings, when required.
• Basic electrical duties i.e. refitting light fixtures, sockets, switches and replacing bulbs.
• Basic external works i.e. slabbing, wall removals and fencing.
• Undertake general labouring duties and multi-skilled ancillary tasks associated with the primary role objective, where and when required.
• To mentor, coach and develop apprentices and other members of staff.
• To ensure all repairs are completed within the specified time period to a required standard and conform to the requirements of the current regulations.
• Drive an allocated works vehicle in line with the driver handbook, to pre-inspect, identify and obtain the resources, materials and plant required to complete a repair to the required standard.
• Accurately record work time, materials and plant used to complete a repair ensuring maximisation of resources.
• Ensure the safe use and safe storage of any plant issued reporting any defects.
• Conduct daily safety checks of the allocated works vehicle and record the findings in the appropriate manner.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across the business internally and externally.
• To work at all times in a safe and appropriate manner to meet the duties and responsibilities within the Health and Safety policies and procedures of the association.
• Additional, reasonable duties as required

*A full UK driving licence is essential to this role*

(Please refer to the attached recruitment pack for more information.)

For further information about the role, please contact

Application Process:

We require an application form to be completed for every role.

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We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV's will be treated as a direct application.

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Your Hedyn, our comprehensive benefits package:

We believe Hedyn is a great place to work and it's important to us that our people feel the same way.

As well as offering varied and fulfilling careers, we want every colleague to feel appreciated. That means having the best possible benefits package, the flexibility to maintain a great work-life balance and the opportunity to achieve your full potential.

We are still at the beginning of our journey. Join us to help shape it.

Enhanced Pension Scheme:

Apply promptly! A high volume of applicants is expected for the role as detailed below, do not wait to send your CV.
We offer an attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions of up to 12%. You are able to determine the level of contributions that is right for you.

Enhanced Annual Leave:
You'll start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase to 30 days following 3 years' service.

SMART Working (dependent on role):
You're trusted to manage your time to work in a way that meets the needs of our customers, colleagues and communities.

At Hedyn, we believe that 'work is something you do rather than somewhere you go.'

Health and Wellbeing:
We have many health and wellbeing policies and initiatives such as Cycle to Work and Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption.

Flexible Benefits
We have a flexible benefits package that allows colleagues to spend £625 towards the benefits that suit them. There is a wide range of benefits available to choose from including Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, the option to have your professional memberships paid for, and Electric Vehicles.

Development:
We offer many professional and personal development options such as sponsored study opportunities and career progression and development.

We want you to be at your very best. xbpsjku Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.

If you are looking for your next career challenge, seeking responsibility, and are passionate about delivering the best possible service, we'd love to hear from you.