• Careers Site Advertising End DateAdvertising End Date:
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  • Internal Advertising End DateInternal Advertising End Date:
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  • Function:
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  • About The Role

  • What you can expect from us

    • We offer a competitive salary of £35,300
    • Van (for business use, including home to work) and power tools provided.
    • 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
    • Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme.
    • Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
    • A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
    • Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
      Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
    • Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
    • Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
    • Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
    • Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

    About the Role

    We are recruiting an Painter (Multi-skilled)  to join our Onward Repairs team with a specific responsibility to work with our Damp and Mould team focusing on the improvement to properties across the North West of England. 

    This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business to deliver property maintenance services, undertaking repair activities predominantly within customer’s homes, but also voids. 

     Start and finish your day from home with no need to attend our office daily -just for team meetings.

    Key Responsibilities 

    Delivery 

    • Following training generally assess and diagnose damp and mould problems and any HHSRS risks. 

    • Carrying out three stage Damp and Mould treatment, and ensuring homes are within regulations to relet 

    • Completing legal disrepair work, ensuring the homes are decorated in line with housing standards 

    • Undertaking full painting and decorating duties 

    • Identifying and rectifying defects in paintwork 

    • Preparing all walls/ ceilings “internal” to receive paint or paper 

    • Painting internal walls/ ceilings with emulsion paints following the correct preparation 

    Customer Services 

    • To provide excellent customer service whilst ensuring prompt work of the required standard. 

    Liaison and technical advice 

    • Liaise with clients, customers and colleagues regarding access, safe working practices, and assessment of repairs requirements and progress of repairs. 

    Health and Safety 

    • Undertake work activities in line with all health and safety requirements demonstrating a sound working knowledge of key legislative health and safety information and safe working practices. 
  • About Us

  • Skills, Knowledge and Experience 

    Essential 

    • Sound knowledge of building construction, components, building trades and applicable building regulations. 

    • Experience of working in a customer focussed service. 

    • Proven ability to deliver a quality customer centred repairs service.  

    • Experience of working in a target driven environment. 

    • Sound knowledge of health and safety regulations, regulation and ACOPS relevant to the post and associated tasks undertaken within it, in line with HASAWA 1974. 

    Desirable

    • Experience of working within a commercial and domestic property maintenance environment. 

    • Experience of delivering services within the social housing sector. 

    •  Experience of using PDA technology (handheld/mobile working technology). 

     

    Qualifications 

    Essential 

    City and Guilds Craft Certificate in painting or equivalent. 

    Desirable 

    • Hold relevant health & safety qualifications which relate to the sector/construction industry in general. 

    • Asbestos awareness training. 

    • Relevant power tool training. 

    • Manual handling training. 

    • Appropriate and current training in COSHH & PPE. 

    • Access equipment and working at height training e.g. mobile work platforms.  

    • Appropriate HHSRS qualification or willingness to work towards completing it. 

    • Appropriate Damp and Mould Training or willingness to work towards completing it. 

    About Onward

    Onward Repairs is the in‑house repairs and maintenance service for Onward Homes, keeping customers’ homes safe, secure and well maintained. Our skilled teams deliver responsive repairs, planned works and voids services, combining high standards, strong teamwork and a customer‑first approach. We invest in our people and take pride in making a real difference to our communities.

    Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.

    We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

    In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

    We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

    If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [email protected] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

    Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.

    #LI-AM1

    #INDHP

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