Advanced Craft Carpenter

Advanced Craft Carpenter Hours: 36 hours per week, rota covering Monday-Sunday 8am-8pm Location: Within all properties maintained and managed by the Wrekin Housing Group, including but not limited to, Shropshire, Staffordshire and the Midlands Salary: £28,618.13 per annum The Organisation: The Wrekin Housing Group is a socially minded organisation that makes a difference to people's lives. We do this by: Providing more than 13,500 homes for affordable rent across Telford & Wrekin, Shropshire and Staffordshire. Delivering care services to older people, adults with learning difficulties and people with dementia. Channelling social investment across communities to create jobs and promote economic growth. We generate opportunities for people to gain employability skills, maximising the social value of our services and delivering wider community benefits.At Wrekin you will be joining a team of more than 1200 colleagues who inspire positive change, communicate clearly, grow together and ensure that everyone matters. We make sure that all colleagues have the tools and training to flourish and contribute to our collective goal of making a difference to people's lives. The Role: We are looking for suitably qualified individuals who can demonstrate an ability to carry out a range of high quality maintenance and repairs across their area of expertise and a range of minor repairs and associated works outside of this. Key responsibilities will include assessing the work to be undertaken, ensuring it meets the agreed specification and where appropriate organise relevant materials for the work. You will also liaise with tenants and other customers whilst taking responsibility for completing the appropriate paperwork associated with the work being undertaken. What you will need: With a relevant City and Guilds qualification, you'll have experience of maintaining domestic properties and working unsupervised as part of a team. Successful applicants will need to have a flexible approach to work and a can-do attitude, to delivering the highest levels of customer service. A full UK Driving license is essential. Given the environment you will be working in, you must be able to demonstrate effective communication, strong team working, organisational, interpersonal skills and maintaining high levels of confidentiality at all times. You will be expected to promote a positive, friendly and understanding attitude towards our customers and other colleagues in order to achieve consistency with the high levels of performance, efficiency and quality that is expected of our Employees. Our Inclusive Culture We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer. All applications are considered on the requirements of the role regardless of gender identity, nationality, ethnicity, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief or background. Please refer to our Equal Opportunities Policy below for further information. Benefits In return we offer you an interesting, challenging and rewarding opportunity to join a supportive Organisation with over 1290 employees. Starting with 22 days annual leave increasing with service to 30 days plus 11/12 days bank holiday per annum, there is also a competitive pension scheme, health care options and free life assurance. The Recruitment Process In partnership with our trusted external providers we are committed to undertaking care and safeguarding checks with all colleagues. These checks may vary according to the role you have applied for. We also ask for two references for everyone who is offered a position, one of which must be your current or most recent employer. All roles will also be offered subject to satisfactory right to live and work in the UK checks; if you need any further information on these checks please visit Closing date: Wednesday 28th September 2022 Interview date: Monday 3rd October 2022 Reference Number: WHG1972