North Northamptonshire Council
Painter and Decorator
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About The Role
Transforming houses into homes through quality workmanship and attention to detail.
About The Role
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Painter and Decorator to help prepare empty Council properties to a high standard across the Kettering and Corby areas. Using your painting, decorating and basic plastering skills, you will play a key role in ensuring homes are ready for new tenants, delivering quality work that helps make a positive difference to our communities.
What will you be doing?
As a Painter and Decorator, you'll play an important role in preparing Council homes for new tenants, ensuring properties are safe, well-presented and ready to become homes once again.
- Carrying out painting and decorating works within empty Council properties to a high standard.
- Completing both internal and external decorating work across a range of residential properties.
- Preparing surfaces, including filling, making minor repairs and removing wallpaper where required.
- Working safely at height using ladders, scaffolding and access equipment such as cherry pickers.
- Following health and safety procedures, including COSHH regulations and safe working practices.
- Delivering a fast, efficient and customer-focused service while maintaining high quality standards.
- Driving Council vehicles to transport materials and equipment between sites.
- Identifying potential hazards, including asbestos-containing materials and other harmful substances, and reporting them appropriately.
- Undertaking minor maintenance and repair tasks associated with decorating work.
- Supporting the wider team with other duties of a similar nature as required.
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About You
- Safety Awareness – including manual handling and working at heights.
- City and Guilds NVQ 2 or equivalent
- At least 3 years’ experience.
- Knowledge of using PDA or similar for planning of work and communication with team.
- Conversant with COSHH regulations on decorating materials
- A dedication to being your best at all times – being professional, proactive and open to new ways of working.
- An enthusiasm for team working – being collaborative, innovative and showing support and respect for colleagues
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
- Full UK Driving Licence
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We Offer a Vibrant Working Environment With
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
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Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
- Customer-focused
- Respectful
- Efficient
- Supportive
- Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council
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- Painter Decorator North Northants JD PS.pdf
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