Handy Person

Handy Person

Leeds

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw), Monday - Friday

Pay £12.00 ph, (£23,464 pa) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

We have a fabulous job opportunity for a Handy Person to join our awesome team at The Sycamores.

You will be the multi skilled hands-on practical support that helps our colleagues deliver services to our customers.

As a business we support customers with differing support needs and vulnerabilities in a wide range of properties and grounds.  

Typical day as a Handy Person


* Doing minor or emergency repairs, decorative touches or even cleaning in our properties or communal areas


* Doing things like hanging curtain poles, moving furniture, touching up paints, changing tap washers, unblocking sinks, mowing lawns, and clearing grounds or properties.


* Carrying out regular Fire Safety checks and building compliance checks


* Working with colleagues, commercial partners and customers throughout your day.


* Liaising with our Customer Service Centre and external contractors to report repairs outside of your remit and chase up outstanding works.


* Finally, if building flat pack furniture is your thing, then this is the perfect job for you!

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK! 

About You


* A team player with a can-do attitude and enthusiasm.


* You’re multi skilled with general maintenance skills, know a bit about general repairs, carpentry, basic plumbing and can wield a broom or paint brush!


* Comfortable working and communicating with people from all walks of life


* It would be amazing if you have been a handy person in a previous job, but it’s not a deal breaker.


* Able to use technology to keep building records updated, access emails etc 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.

Our team 

You’ll join Emma and our Housing team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of The Sycamores and opening the brand-new service.

We’re a supportive bunch and like to work hard with whilst having some fun.

Job details


* Based at The Sycamores Over 55's Extra Care Service in Woodlesford, but you may be required to visit other services.


* Monday - Friday 9 am – 5pm, but we’re flexible and as long as we can meet our customers need, we can flex your work patterns to suit you.


* Occasionally travel outside of our service to work on a property that you may not have worked on before, or when we have an all hands on deck situation.


* You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work.

We want all our colleagues t...