One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services, Sanctuary Group employs around 13,000 people and manages more than 100,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Estate Technician
Salisbury – Covering Salisbury, Bournemouth, Portsmouth
£23,890
- £25,147 per year
40 hours per week – Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 16:30pm
We have an opportunity for an Estate Technician to join our well-established Estate Services based in Salisbury. You will be part of a small team, primarily lone working on the clearing and then cleaning of empty properties on our sheltered and general needs services as well as completing ad-hoc duties such as removal of fly-tipping and gutter cleaning.
The role of Estate Technician will include:
- Assisting with general cleaning and clearing of void properties
- Conducting compliance checks (fire alarms, emergency lights, legionella testing)
- Completing ad-hoc work orders which may include cleaning of gutters and removal of fly tipping from our schemes
- Completing daily work records and maintaining stock levels
- Ensuring tools and equipment are kept in a useable condition
- Working with customers to resolve issues and improve services
- Providing accurate information and updates on the progress of allocated work
Skills and experiences:
- Working knowledge and experience of undertaking grounds maintenance, caretaking, general cleaning and basic repairs duties
- Some experience of working to deadlines and prioritising work loads
- Recent experience in interpreting written instructions and maintaining simple written records
- Working knowledge of Health and Safety legislation
- Excellent interpersonal and customer care skills
- This role will involve driving on company business. In order to drive a company vehicle, drivers must hold a full valid UK manual driving licence
About us
Sanctuary Property Services provide in-house repairs and maintenance services for an extensive portfolio of properties across Sanctuary. As part of a not-for-profit organisation, we aim to achieve outstanding results for our customers based on our values
- working in an open and transparent way, creating strong partnerships with our customers and providing a first-class customer service.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 24 days annual leave plus public holidays
- A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
- Life Assurance
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- £23,890 per annum (rising to £25,147 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
Closing Date: 08 April 2024
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
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