Overall Purpose
To provide an excellent painting and decorating service across all Get Living residential homes, ensuring properties are maintained to the highest standard of finish. This includes preparing and treating surfaces, applying paints, wallpapers, and other finishes, and carrying out repair and touch-up work. The role is customer-focused, delivering safe, efficient, and considerate service to residents, colleagues, and stakeholders, enhancing the overall living experience.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Prepare walls, ceilings, woodwork, and other surfaces by sanding, filling, and priming.
- Apply paints, varnishes, wallpapers, and specialist finishes to achieve high-quality results.Carry out minor repairs to plasterboard, woodwork, and other surfaces as required.
- Ensure work areas are protected, clean, and left tidy on completion.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and contractors to complete decorating projectsComplying with all relevant Health & Safety legislation and procedures, including task specific risk assessments and method statements, reporting unsafe working practices, installations, or equipment.
People
- Build and develop effective working relationships with all colleagues in the maintenance and Neighbourhood teams.
- Attend team briefings and understand operational objectives and goals.
- Communicate effectively with residents about scheduled works, ensuring sensitivity to their privacy and respect for their homes.
Health & Safety
- Ensure all health and safety guidelines and control measures are delivered.
- Assist with Crisis Management and Office evacuation measures as required
- Ensure all work order records are always maintained and available for compliance audit purposes.
Qualifications & Experience
- City & Guilds/NVQ Level 2–3 in Painting & Decorating (or equivalent experience/qualification).
- Proven experience in painting, wallpapering, and decorative finishes.
- Experience working in residential property maintenance preferred.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Good communication skills, friendly, respectful.
- Ability to build strong working relationships and communicate effectively.
- Able to analyse situations and use good problem-solving skills.
- High level of attention to detail.
- Numeracy skills to work out surface areas and quantities.
- Clear and concise report writing skills.
Note - this is a summary of the main duties of this position. The Company reserves the right to require the role-holder to undertake such additional tasks or duties as may be within their capabilities and abide by all reasonable rules and instructions given by the Company.
Get Living Commitment
ESG
Lead and promote ESG initiatives as well as identifying ways to improve sustainability goals.
Health and Safety
Get Living is responsible for providing a safe and healthy environment for all its employees, residents, commercial occupiers, service providers, and visitors who may be affected by its undertakings across its portfolio.
We are committed to continual improvement of performance, recognising the importance of investing in the health and welfare of its Employees by providing a physical and social working environment which is conducive to maintaining a healthy, fit and highly motivated workforce.
We encourage a positive health and safety culture by actively promoting occupational health and safety through the provision of information, training, instruction and supervision. Through ongoing consultation with employees, partners and suppliers everyone is enthusiastically involved in managing risk and ensuring that our sites are a safe place to live, work and visit.
Our Commitment
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
