Handy Person
- Employer
- MTVH
- Location
- Balham
- Salary
- £26,813
- Closing date
- 18 Aug 2024
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- Function
- Community and Customer Services, Care and support
- Seniority
- Officer
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organisation Type
- Housing association / RP
Job Details
Position: Handy Person Location: Blaham SW12 Salary: £26,813
The role of Handyperson with Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our community's most vulnerable members. We're looking for a skilled individual who can provide responsive and small repairs handyperson services to elderly, disabled, or otherwise vulnerable people across all tenures, ensuring compliance with relevant procedures and Health & Safety legislation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Programming, installing, and servicing Community Alarms and Assistive Technology equipment, with thorough customer guidance on operation.
- Conducting Home Fire Safety Checks and installing Smoke detectors as directed by the Fire and Rescue service.
- Installing equipment for Domestic Violence Customers provided by the Community Safety partnership.
- Collaborating with local authorities and partner agencies on various projects.
- Adhering to Fire & Rescue Guidance on Driving DFRS Vehicles and maintaining accurate mileage records.
- Being accountable for Trade Card usage.
- Identifying areas for improvement, implementing changes, and providing necessary feedback.
- Working collaboratively with colleagues to enhance service effectiveness.
Requirements:
- Full clean driving license is essential
- Skills-based experience and training, ideally from a full craft apprenticeship.
- Flexibility to work occasional extra hours when required.
- Possession of a full UK driving license.
- Willingness to undertake trade and personal development training as requested.
- Preference for candidates with an established trade background.
Given the role's interaction with vulnerable adults accessing healthcare services, candidates must undergo a standard check with the Disclosure and Barring Service upon employment offer, renewed every three years to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality services.
Interviews will be taking place week commencing 26th August
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
- Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Company
Welcome to MTVH!
Our organisation was built on a simple mission – to give people a safe, secure, and affordable home. That is as true today as it was in the 1950’s, when our founder Molly Huggins established on organisation to provide homes for Windrush migrants in London. Our core purpose I that “everyone should have a home and the chance to live well” To fulfil this vision, we work with partners to make our neighbourhoods – new and old - sustainable and vibrant places, where our customers want to live. We put people at the heart of everything we do and to guide is in every decision we make. Through managing more than 57,000 households we work at a scale that means our actions to achieve this have real impact.
We firmly believe that by serving people better every day, we will support a healthier, better cared for, and more prosperous society in the future. Like our founders before us, we will leave a lasting legacy for future generations. Our colleagues are crucial to our success in achieving this. Therefore, we are committed to investing in colleagues and creating the opportunity for them to develop. Our working environment has been designed to be one that brings out the very best in people.
We are a member of the National Housing Federation and the g15, which represents London’s 15 largest housing associations and houses one in 10 Londoners (www.g15london.org.uk).
We also offer a wide range of benefits:-
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- In addition to annual leave a 'belief day' to be taken at a time of your choosing
- 2 paid voluntary days to support your community
- Smarter working is the MTVH approach to future working arrangements for colleagues registered as office-based to adapt to the needs of the customer.
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions up to a maximum of 9% contribution
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits
- Cycle to Work scheme
- 'Nudge' financial wellbeing platform
- Employee assistance programme
- Season ticket loan
- Access to extensive on-line training
- Website
- http://www.metropolitan.org.uk/
- Mini-site
- MTVH
- Telephone
- 0203 535 3611
- Location
-
2nd Floor, The Grange
100 High Street
Southgate
London
London
N14 6PW
GB
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