Description
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week
Salary: £24,456 - £28,542 per annum
Location: Burford, OX18 4PF
Closing date: Wednesday 25th March 2026
Interview date: W/C 30th March 2026
We’re recruiting a Maintenance Steward to join our team at our beautiful Burford site in the Cotswolds.
More about the role
As a Maintenance Steward, you'll play a crucial role in keeping our site safe, clean, and fully operational. You’ll take on a variety of tasks, from performing basic maintenance, housekeeping, and groundskeeping to ensuring health and safety compliance across the site.
With a keen eye for detail, you will carry out our planned repairs, identify and address non-routine repairs, ensure compliance is met with the maintenance of facilities and equipment and is carried out efficiently and safely while communicating professionally with site staff. Your proactive approach will be essential in facilitating vehicle & equipment servicing and maintaining clean, fully operational work areas. On occasion you will assist other team with unloading essential materials and contribute to training new team members, ensuring they are well-equipped to perform their duties. Additionally, you will carefully document all tasks to ensure compliance with safety regulations and to uphold our standards consistently.
Your contributions will make a real difference every day, ensuring the site runs smoothly and efficiently.
This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday from 9am – 5pm. There may be an occasional need to work outside of these hours.
If you excel in an environment where you can see the difference you make every day, then this is the role for you. Interested? Then apply and let’s work together to see if this is the role for you.
About you
The ideal candidate will take pride in their work, maintaining our centres to the highest standards while providing support across all activities. You'll be skilled in planning ahead, prioritising tasks, and collaborating with all departments to ensure the centres are fully prepared for events. Strong interpersonal skills are essential, as you’ll be communicating with a diverse range of people across the site, ensuring smooth coordination and effective teamwork. Flexibility and empathy are key, as you'll be working closely with both people and animals, always maintaining a professional and courteous demeanour.
Knowledge, skills, and experience
* Full driving licence
* Previous gardening or grounds maintenance experience
* Experience of handyman/general maintenance work
* Basic vehicle maintenance
* Demonstrate good communication skills, both written and verbal
* Experience of grass mowers and maintaining grounds equipment
* Basic computer and administration skills
* Demonstrate safe handling and lifting methods
Although not essential, it would be great if you also had:
* Managing/monitoring Health and Safety aspects of the workplace
* Experience in animal care
* Some working knowledge of managing and maintaining land facilities
* LANTRA Qualification for operating gardening equipment
* Experience in supervising volunteers
* Experience of towing trailers or larger vehicles
* Experience of driving tractor and loader (ideally holding current competency certificate)
* Standard compliance testing experience
How to apply
Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date on Wednesday 25th March 2026.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Blue Cross benefits
Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make the difference that we do today.
In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can. We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.
Our generous benefits package includes:
* Full time equivalent of 38 days holiday rising to 43 with service (including Bank Holidays)
* Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
* Free access to GP via MetLife- 24/7 GP services, private prescriptions and more for you and your family
* Health cash plan
* Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
* Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
* Professional fees paid with Continuing Professional Development and personal development support.
* Life assurance
* 20% discount on Pet Plan pet insurance
* Enhanced family friendly policies
* Recognition scheme
* Annual volunteer days
* Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers
To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.
If you’d like to learn more about Blue Cross, our mission, and the work we do to support animals and people, take a look at our About Us page