Position: Maintenance Technician
Care home: The Lodge 
Location: Swallownest, S26 4WB
Contract type: Part Time - 24 hours per week
Rate: £12.50 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 The Lodge learning disability service in Swallownest.

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

At The Lodge, 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 

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

We support six adults with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities.

With this small group living, we provide a homely environment for the people we support. 

With us, you’ll be mindful that you’re working in people’s home and understand that every day is led by what the people living at The Lodge want to do. Flexibility and adaptability is a must. 

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

About you

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 pod7@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.