Maintenance

Position: Maintenance Technician 
Care home: Fairburn Vale
Location: Wheldon Road, Castleford, WF10 2PY
Contract type: 40 hours per week
Rate: £13.27 per hour
Care home CQC rating: Rated ‘Good’ by CQC

This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference every day. 

Join us as our new Maintenance Technician at Fairburn Vale care home in Castleford.

If you’re looking for a rewarding maintenance role with a difference, we have the job for you. 

At Fairburn Vale, our Maintenance Technicians ensure a safe and welcoming home for the people we support. 

In the role, you’ll ensure that everything works well and looks its best for everyone who lives, works and visits here.

About Exemplar Health Care

Fairburn Vale is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers. 

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, brain injuries, physical disabilities and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. 

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Maintenance Technician plays a key role in ensuring that the fabrics, fittings, fixtures and equipment in the home are in good condition.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• general maintenance

• decorating

• gardening

• plumbing

• tiling

• carrying out regular risk assessments, audits and checks. 

You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do – whether that’s painting bedrooms, building planters in the garden or putting pictures on people’s walls. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

Download our job description to read more: 

https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029781191

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• able to demonstrate a broad range of maintenance skills

• knowledgeable about, and experienced in, health and safety legislation and regulations

• a great communicator, both verbally and in writing

• someone with digital skills and an understanding of how IT works

• a team player

• kind, caring and understanding.

To apply for this role, it may be helpful if you have, or are willing to work towards, a 18th-edition Electrical Certificate. 

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including: 

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects

• access to wages before payday

• retail and lifestyle discounts

• free DBS check

• 24/7 counselling and support

• Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. 

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email pod5@exemplarhc.com.

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. 

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact recruitment@exemplarhc.com.