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How You'll Make a Difference
Working in our Handyvan Team you will use your tradesman experience to complete a wide range of building repairs and gardening for households, schools and commercial properties across South Gloucestershire, with a key objective to provide services to support older and vulnerable people feel safe and remain independent in their own homes.
How You'll Make a Difference
Working in our Handyvan Team you will use your tradesman experience to complete a wide range of building repairs and gardening for households, schools and commercial properties across South Gloucestershire, with a key objective to provide services to support older and vulnerable people feel safe and remain independent in their own homes.
What You Will Be Doing
* You will complete maintenance in residential homes such as plumbing repairs, carpentry, flooring, painting and decorating, fencing, decking repairs, shelving, flat pack furniture building or tiling and grouting
* In the role you will conduct work within schools and commercial buildings offering a minor works maintenance service, mainly, plumbing repairs, carpentry, window and door repairs, glazing, drainage, painting and decorating.
* You will also support garden maintenance such as grass cutting and strimming, lawn care, hedge trimming, shrub pruning, patio repairs, fence repairs, gutter cleaning and repairs
* It is expected that you will use your technical knowledge to carry out assessments of work environments in homes or offices including costing and invoicing for the work undertaken.
* It is essential that you ensure work is completed to required standards are followed and that all statutory requirements and professional standards are complied with in order to secure the safety of staff and customers.
* You will ensure timely and accurate records are kept on work activities, providing information and be able to communicate effectively with external contractors and suppliers ensuring that value for money is obtained for the organisation.
What We Need From You
* You must be a skilled craftsman with a City and Guilds trade qualification
* We require you to have and in-depth working knowledge and experience of property maintenance with experience of safe working practices including health and safety legislation as it relates to the operational tasks associated building maintenance
* You will have experience of face-to-face contact with the public within a working environment showing competency in customer care
* It is key that you have a working knowledge of meeting timebound deadlines, financial targets and costs in an operational team
* It is essential that you can proficiently use a wide variety of hand and power tools associated with the building or electrical trade and have experience in using mobile working technologies such as hand-held devices
* You will have a good level of competence in literacy and able to interpret information in a variety of formats including bespoke or standard ICT systems, maps and specifications from paper or on hand-held technology.
* You need a Driving licence and CPC to category C1E no restrictions.
What You Need To Know
* Interviews will be held on Wednesday 27th August 2025.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
* As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
* We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
* We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
* We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
* We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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