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About the Role
In this highly rewarding role, you will be joining a highly motivated team of facilities professionals and facilities operatives gaining invaluable multi-skilled experience in all areas of property maintenance and compliance while working in a meaningful environment that truly changes lives.
Within The Bridge Care Facilities Management Team, no two days are exactly the same. You will work alongside our experienced team to ensure our facilities remain safe, comfortable and welcoming environments for the people we support.
An average week will involve a mix of planned preventative maintenance, responsive repairs and property safety inspections:
- Carrying out day-to-day repairs and maintenance – Helping with a wide variety of practical trade skills including basic joinery, plumbing, plastering, decorating.
- You will explore repairs and faults to their route cause and use outside-the-box thinking to find solutions that work for the people we support.
- Conducting safety compliance checks – Undertaking routine property inspections and safety monitoring, including water temperature checks, plant & service checks, and environmental safety checks to ensure the environment is safe for the people we support and colleagues.
- Responding to critical repair requests – Sometimes faults, repairs or damage can have an impact on the safety of the environment for the people we support. We respond responsively, inline with established response times to investigate, make-safe and repair property and assets to ensure the safety of the environment at all times.
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving – We see things differently and take the time to find solutions to problems that work for the people we support. We flip problems on their head to find outside-the-box solutions for the complex needs of the people we support.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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Course contents
- Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
- Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
- Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
- Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
- Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
- Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
- Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
- Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
- Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
- Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
- Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
- Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
- Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
- Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
- Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
- Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
- Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
- Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
- Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
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Requirements
GCSE in:
- English (grade 3)
- Maths (grade 3)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Job Details
This role will involve working outdoors at times. Some heavy lifting will be involved. We work across multiple properties across our portfolio in Yorkshire.
About The Bridge
The Bridge provides community-based, registered support focused on individual’s unique needs. We offer the ideal environment and personalised support to help people with complex needs and behaviours that challenge, live happily and safely in the community.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
After successful completion of the apprenticeship, we would like to welcome you with the opportunity of a permanent full-time position at The Bridge Care.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEART OF YORKSHIRE EDUCATION GROUP
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