Maintenance Operative

At Everyturn Mental Health, we believe safe, well-maintained environments are essential to supporting recovery and delivering high-quality care. We are now looking for a skilled and proactive Maintenance Operative to join our Estates team and help ensure our services are safe, functional, and welcoming for the people who use and work in them.

About The Role

The main purpose of this role is to carry out day-to-day general maintenance across our services, ensuring all buildings are maintained in a safe, efficient, and fully operational condition.

You will play a key role in both planned and reactive maintenance, helping to keep our services running smoothly and responding quickly to issues as they arise.

Please note: Due to the nature of this role, it is essential that you hold a full UK driving license. We do provide an vehicle for work related travel

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as is does not meet the requirements as set out by the UK Visa and Immigration Service

What You'll Do

In this hands-on and varied role, you will:

• Carry out a range of planned and reactive maintenance tasks, including general building work, basic joinery, basic plumbing, painting and decorating, and external grounds maintenance
• Complete planned preventative maintenance in line with scheduled programmes
• Act as a first responder for breakdowns, faults, and maintenance requests
• Liaise with and coordinate external contractors and suppliers where required
• Undertake general facilities support tasks, including installation, delivery, and removal of furniture and equipment
• Carry out inspections, identify and report defects, risks, and maintenance issues
• Follow Everyturn’s health and safety policies and procedures, including identifying hazards and completing point-of-work risk assessments
• Communicate effectively with service occupiers to minimise disruption during maintenance activities

Support the Estates team with additional duties as required

Take part in additional training and development opportunities as needed - there are great training opportunities available!

What You'll Bring

We are looking for someone with:

• Significant experience in a building trade or property maintenance role
• A City & Guilds craft certificate in a construction trade, or a Level 2 NVQ Diploma in a relevant trade (or multi-trade building maintenance), or equivalent hands-on experience
• Multi-trade skills qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain maintenance work verbally and in writing
• Basic IT skills, including using smartphones/tablets, emails, apps, and taking photographs for reporting purposes
• A full UK driving license
  
  

What We Offer In Return

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) and the option to purchase or sell day
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream - ability to release earnings, giving you instant access to your pay
• Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme, including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and counselling sessions Shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer!
  
  

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQ+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies, so please submit your application as soon as possible.