Required to travel between our local homes in Basingstoke area to provide support where needed -Full UK manual driver’s license required -Must have held your UK license for at least 2 years -Must be over the age of 25 About the role. To carry out planned and reactive maintenance to all services, grounds and vehicles ensuring that all Health & Safety, regulatory and company standards are met. At Progress Housing, you will work with extraordinary people who achieve fantastic successes. Your main responsibilities will be to inspect and evaluate contract services, coordinate with managers, instructors, and others to provide equipment and materials needed within the care home environment, source and purchase good quality supplies and materials whilst being cost effective. You will be working in an environment, which supports service users with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and associated complex health needs, to live the life they want to within our services. You will support the managers of these services by ensuring a safe environment for the service users, scheduling repairs and maintenance so there is minimal disruption the service users. You will respond to emergency repair situations immediately considering health and safety requirements and solutions for repairs or replacements. You will need to perform skilled duties in the operations, maintenance, and repair of buildings and grounds areas About You You will be kind, compassionate, empathetic and comfortable to work in a care home environment You will ideally have knowledge of maintaining and repairing electrical and plumbing systems You will ideally be comfortable to assist with painting and decorating, plumbing and carpentry work, maintaining electrical equipment and fire alarm testing as required You will be able to perform preventive maintenance on equipment and building facility systems You will undertake regular checks for leaks within the water and for proper operation of boiler, water heater, furnace and refrigeration You will report any potential hazards to the Registered Manager You will maintain gardens in line with health and safety regulations You will be willing to take on any additional responsibilities on behalf of the service as instructed by the facilities manager You will have knowledge of COSHH requirements Package. Market leading pay rates Length of service leave (up to five extra days holiday) Fully funded Blue Light Discount Card Access to Wagesteam – our financial wellbeing app that lets you access your pay as and when you earn it, get discounts at supermarkets and helps you save. Employee Assistance Programme (access to free telephone counselling and legal advice) Free compliance training, and opportunities to develop NEST Pension Scheme Flexibility in creating your own rota to suit your life Free enhanced DBS check Life Assurance (2 x salary) The successful applicant will need to pass an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory referencing prior to commencing employment. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome, and encourage, applications from all backgrounds – we are happy to discuss any possible reasonable adjustments. Please note the Support Worker role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.