Position: Handy Person Location: Balham 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.

Essentials for the role:

• Full clean UK driving license is essential
• Skills-based experience and training, ideally from a full craft apprenticeship.
• Flexibility to work occasional extra hours when required.
• Willingness to undertake trade and personal development training as requested.
• Have an established trade background.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete a Standard level background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, once an offer of employment is made which is paid for by MTVH. You will also be added to the DBS updating service which will be renewed every 3 years

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 are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

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.