Regional Painter & Decorator

As a Regional Painter & Decorator at Athena Care Homes, you will be responsible for ensuring the home is a safe environment for residents, team members and visitors whilst maintaining a high quality of service within the home

About Athena Care Homes:
Athena Care Homes is an award winning, family-owned business operating seven residential nursing homes in East Anglia where care and compassion runs through to our very core. There is a shared vision across all of our specialist care homes: we strive to provide happy, safe and comfortable care to every resident.

At Athena we celebrate everyone as an individual. Whether that’s delivering authentic care, supporting our team to make moments for our residents and their loved ones, or whether that’s learning and growing together.

About the role:
The Regional Painter & Decorator will be in charge of ensuring that all painting, decorating and minor repairs are fixed within a timely manner for all the homes within the group.

This role would suit someone who lives in either Cambridgeshire or West Norfolk and who is happy to travel across East Anglia to our seven care homes (we’ll pay your mileage and travel time). We are looking for someone who is passionate about working with our teams at each care home to ensure our residents’ home is always looking it’s very best.

Salary:
£12.00 per hour, including travel times from your home address plus mileage reimbursement.

Shift Pattern:
0-hour contract, you will be a part of our bank team. This allows us to be completely flexible around your other commitments and the needs of our care homes.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the decoration of the home is to the highest standard and snagging items dealt with in a timely manner.
• Respond to requests from the team regarding painting, decorating and wallpapering duties for each home.
• Ensure the relevant equipment and environment is safe within the home in accordance with your role.

Training, Skills & Experience Required:

• Be experienced in all aspects of painting, decorating, and wallpapering.
• Be competent at achieving a high standard of finish.
• Be able to work to high standards with minimal supervision.
• Good at record keeping, and the ability to accurately manage the relevant paperwork.
• Full UK driving license and access to your own vehicle.

What we can offer:

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena:
Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

Our aim is to be the provider of choice for our residents and the employer of choice for our team members.

Our purpose is to create excellent quality homely environments with the highest standards of care, catering, housekeeping and activities.

We aim to enhance the lives of our residents and enable them to enjoy life to the full as individuals in happy, comfortable and safe surroundings.