Salary Up To £39, dependent On Skills And Experience)
Location Bedfordshire and surrounding areas
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 18 days at 12:59 GMT.
The vacancy
Full Time (40 hours per week) Hours are on a rota basis between 08:00 – 17:00pm, Monday – Friday Occasional weekend and evening shifts In this role, you will have use of a company van and power tools.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join bpha's In House Maintenance Service, who make a difference to our customer's lives everyday by delivering a high-quality repairs service designed around them.
We operate across Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and surrounding areas, and we utilise the latest technology to ensure that we not only deliver a great experience for our customers, but for our colleagues as well.
Would you like to be a part of our new in-house repairs & maintenance service where you are valued as a key member of our workforce and can truly make a difference to our customer's lives?
Are you an experienced qualified Electrician? If so, we want to hear from you
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and especially the services we deliver. Repairs and maintenance services affect our customers personally, impacting their quality of life and satisfaction with their home. So, to provide the very best service possible, we are bringing our repairs and maintenance service in-house.
We are looking for skilled Electricians who are passionate about delivering not only high standards of work, but also an excellent service to our customers. These roles will be working in our customers homes' as well as void properties.
You will be the face of bpha in our customers' homes therefore we are looking for friendly professional tradespeople of all backgrounds. Customer service is hugely important at bpha so we are looking for empathetic team members who are considerate, respectful and keen to provide a right first-time positive customer experience. Demonstrating our values and supporting our ambition to grow this service, embracing the opportunities that it will present, is hugely important to us.
You will join us with your experience and trade skills ready to cover a wide range of electrical related repairs within our customers' homes. You will be supported by a comprehensive people management structure, with regular training updates, one to ones and appraisals to help you embrace challenges, growth and development.
Health, Safety and Environmental awareness is a top priority at bpha to keep you and our customers safe and to minimize our impact upon our wider environment.
We'd Love To Meet Someone With
Excellent knowledge of domestic electrical installations, with proven experience is diagnosing, repairing, and resolving issues.
Good and relevant health and safety knowledge.
C&G; Certificate 18th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations as a requirement
C&G; 2391 Inspection and Testing Certificate (preferable)
NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation and AM2.
Certificate in Electrical Installation Parts 1 and 2 (or approved equivalent).
Experience of working within tight time restraints.
Full clean driving licence.
Amongst What We Offer You Is
A competitive salary of up to £39, dependent on skills and experience)
28 days holiday PLUS Bank Holidays (Rising with length of service to 33 days)
A generous contributory pension scheme
Private health care
Free life assurance
Enhanced Family Leave
Access to an extensive suite of wellbeing services and tools including a digital gym
Opportunities for learning and development
Discounted gym membership
Retail discount scheme
Please note the successful candidate will need to complete a basic DBS application and provide two referees.
We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.
About Us
bpha is a Housing Association located in the Oxford to Cambridge Corridor, which is committed to providing its customers with high quality, value for money services whilst continuing to develop energy efficient, sustainable and affordable housing.
We are a leading provider and developer of affordable homes – for rent, shared ownership and supported housing.
We work together with communities – to improve opportunities, independence and quality of life for our residents, and to benefit the wider community. We bring people together, and run and support a wide range of community activities.
We invest the money we make in existing homes, to enable us to build new homes, and to deliver new and improved services.
As a bpha employee, you'd be joining 500 passionate and valued colleagues. All working together, to achieve our mission and deliver quality service for over 20,000 homes and a more than 33,000 residents (and counting).
Our vision and values
'Quality homes. Connected communities'.
Our vision underpins our commitment to provide and maintain safe, sustainable, efficient, high standard homes for local people.
Our values underpin the work that we do and are ingrained in our culture at bpha. We are looking for people who can share these values and translate them into day-to-day practices for the benefit of our communities, customers and fellow colleagues. So that we can realise our vision, together.
We are ambitious
We are better together
We show empathy
We take responsibility
Benefits
We believe that benefits should be more than just perks. For us, they aren't simply little extras added on at the end, they're fundamental parts of what we stand for, from the very beginning. As standard.
That's why at bpha, we reward our employees by making sure we give them a supportive and caring environment, that empowers them to be happy, healthy and inspired, every day.
Holiday entitlement of 28-33 days a year, plus public holidays
Contributory pension scheme
Competitive pay
Life assurance cover
Private healthcare
Mental Health First Aid
Counselling service
Eye tests
Discounted gym membership
Cycle to Work scheme
Free annual flu jabs
Wellbeing activities and events
Free fruit and refreshments
Long service award
Annual staff recognition awards
Discretionary reward scheme
Annual volunteering day
Social events, clubs and activities
Breakout areas
Onsite cafe/restaurant at headquarters
Opportunities for professional training and qualifications
Workshops and training sessions for new skills
A fresh and modern eLearning platform
Documents
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