Maintenance Technician

Position

Maintenance Technician

Thames House

Thames Street, Rochdale, OL16 5NY

Full Time, 40 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

£13.27 per hour

Rated ‘Good’ by CQC

This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference every day. Join us as our new Maintenance Technician at Thames House care home in Rochdale. If you’re looking for a rewarding maintenance role with a difference, we have the job for you.

At Thames House, our Maintenance Technicians ensure a safe and welcoming home for the people we support. In the role, you’ll ensure that everything works well and looks its best for everyone who lives, works and visits here.

Thames House is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with dementia, complex mental health needs and neuro‑disabilities including brain injuries, Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Our team is trained to support people at their end of life and we have close links with Springhill Hospice.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

Our Maintenance Technician plays a key role in ensuring that the fabrics, fittings, fixtures and equipment in the home are in good condition. No two days will ever be the same, but your day‑to‑day responsibilities will include:

• general maintenance
• decorating
• gardening
• plumbing
• tiling
• carrying out regular risk assessments, audits and checks

You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do – whether that’s painting bedrooms, building planters in the garden or putting pictures on people’s walls. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

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Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

• able to demonstrate a broad range of maintenance skills
• knowledgeable about, and experienced in, health and safety legislation and regulations
• a great communicator, both verbally and in writing
• someone with digital skills and an understanding of how IT works
• a team player
• kind, caring and understanding

To apply for this role, it may be helpful if you have, or are willing to work towards, a 18th‑edition Electrical Certificate.

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on or email

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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