Maintenance Caretaker

Sanctuary Students provide safe and secure accommodation to thousands of students around the country. We believe that our strength lies in our dedicated staff who help students with their everyday needs.

Maintenance Caretaker

Sanctuary Students, Dundee

£9,533 to £10,034 per annum

14.5 hours per week – 2 days per week

We’re looking for a hard working and self motivated Maintenance Caretaker to work within our student accommodation sites based in West Park, Dundee. The ideal candidate will have recent experience working in a caretaking role including completing maintenance and compliance tasks within an accommodation setting. Working in a small team, you will be responsible for providing a safe, clean and well maintained environment for residents. Some lone working will be required.

The role of Maintenance Caretaker will include:

Undertake reactive basic repairs and maintenance duties in student accommodation, undertaking repairs and reporting issues which require specialist attention

Ensuring statutory compliance is maintained including carrying out Fire Alarm Tests, emergency Lighting and water hygiene, ensuring they are all completed in a timely manner Record keeping in line with standard operations procedures

Assisting the management team with flat inspections and audits to ensure safe and secure environments in line with Health and Safety and emergency procedures and regulations.

Ensuring the standard of cleanliness of the site is maintained including waste management and cleaning in accordance with specific site requirements and schedules

Act as first point of contact to our customers, responding positively to complaints and service breakdowns

Skills and experiences:

Experience within a caretaking or maintenance role is essential

Practical skills in identifying and /or carrying out basic repairs

Working knowledge of health and safety

Excellent communication skills allowing you to provide great customer service

Ability to interpret written instructions, maintain simple written records and assess priorities to then a plan work schedule effectively

Why work for us?

Sanctuary Students manages accommodation for over 11,500 students across England and Scotland. We work in partnership with universities to provide cost-effective facilities management and support services, as well as providing specifically designed and purpose-built accommodation direct to students across the UK. We offer a range of accommodation from shared flats to self-contained apartments in some of the biggest university towns and cities in the UK, including London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow.

Our Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental, and financial health, and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

25 days leave rising to a maximum of 30 days (plus public holidays) pro rata

A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary

Life Assurance

Employee Advice Service including counselling

Cycle to Work Scheme

Voluntary health plans

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support and tools

Employee recognition scheme

Job Reference: 226421

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Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.

We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.

Sanctuary Students is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.