Painter (Multi-Skilled)
(Ref: P151024)
Blaina, Blaenau Gwent
£28,263.97 per annum (Subject to cost-of-living increase for 2024/25)
Job Description
About Us:
Tai Calon was established in 2010 as a not-for-profit organisation, and with almost 6000 homes, we’re the largest provider of homes in Blaenau Gwent. We’re dedicated to ensuring that every resident has a nice and safe place to live, and we’ve spent over £130 million to ensure our homes meet the Welsh Housing Quality Standards.
We’re proud to announce that we recently celebrated our Great Place to Work certification, demonstrating our commitment to ensuring Tai Calon fosters a culture of trust, fairness, respect and camaraderie, making it a place colleagues truly want to work.
With more than 280 people trained and dedicated to their job, we’re a big employer in the area, and we’re looking for a Painter (Multi-Skilled) to join our team.
About You:
To be successful as a Painter (Multi-Skilled), the ideal candidate will
• Be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent people skills, very personable and able to develop good working relationships.
• Problem solve and make sound judgements of decisions when required.
• Negotiate / liaise with customers and staff effectively showing a willingness to find common ground.
• Well organised with attention to detail to ensure effective work planning, prioritisation, multi-tasking and meeting of deadlines of own work.
• Work as part of a team.
• Be tenant and customer focused.
• Be open to change and demonstrate positive, solution focused attitude.
• Work on own initiative, think laterally, negotiate and develop creative and innovative solutions.
• Demonstrate integrity and support for CALON values.
• Committed to ongoing personal development.
Your Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications
You will also need to have the following knowledge, experience and qualifications
• Educated to a level 2 national qualification framework in City and Guilds Advanced Craft or NVQ
• Asbestos awareness level 1 / skills level 2
• City & Guilds Level 1 Multi-Skilling or willingness to work towards.
What you’ll be doing
Our Painters (Multi-Skilled) carry out all aspects of decorating work including damp treatments along with a range of ancillary works associated with the trade activity, within a range of occupied and void properties including communal areas, garage sites and commercial properties.
This is an important customer facing role, working with customers to ensure their homes are maintained in a timely way, keeping them informed and completing repairs right first time to help reduce costs and meet our service first principles.
As a Painter (Mutli-Skilled) you’ll take ownership to:
• Completing craft works ensuring tasks are undertaken in a considerate manner with satisfactory standards in terms of performance and quality.
• Daily completion of job tickets, timesheets detailing work undertaken and updating Tai Calon’s DRS/PDS systems with relevant information.
• Working in customer focused manor within tenanted homes and community areas.
• Carrying out dynamic risk assessments for work to be undertaken including referring all available risk information, such as asbestos survey data.
• Safe and effective use of tools appropriate to work undertaken.
• Maintaining safe and clean working environment.
• Identifying materials and essential plan and equipment, appropriate for completion of repairs and maintenance.
• Responding to changes in work programme and identifying course of action for priorities and/or emergencies during the working day.
• Interpreting site conditions including weather and excessive moisture levels and to take appropriate action.
• Appropriate use of company equipment to include mobile phones and lone working devices.
• Driving a company vehicle in a safe and responsible manner.
• Engaging with the wider Property Services Team and Management, sharing knowledge, reporting additional works requires, reporting health and safety issues and taking part in meetings with the team and line manager as required.
• Working with other Tai Calon teams and external agencies to deliver customer service across all areas.
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
As a Painter (Multi-Skilled) , you will work 37 hours per week.
Where You'll Be Working:
This role requires travel across the Blaenau Gwent area to complete work in tenant and void homes.
For the days that you're in the office, we've got a bright, open and modern space for you to catch up with colleagues and work from.
Benefits:
In joining our team, you will access the following:
• Free on-site parking
• 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
• Occupational Sick Pay • Training and Development opportunities
• A comprehensive range of company benefits, including a Cycle to Work scheme and access to HOP (Home of Perks) with a whole array of shopping discounts and cashback.
• Free, confidential, 24/7 employee assistance programme (with access to flexible counselling)
Disability Confident Employer:
We are a disability confident committed employer, and if you require any adjustments or support to be considered for this role, email our team at hradmin@taicalon.org or contact us on 0300 303 1717.
More Information:
If you'd like more information about this role, why not reach out to one of the team using the details below.
• Email: hradmin@taicalon.org
• Telephone: 0300 303 1717
What happens next:
If you decide this role is for you, we look forward to receiving your application. Here’s what you can expect on the recruitment process with us
Shortlisting
- We’ll review your application when the vacancy has closed.
- On average it’ll take us around 5 working days to complete shortlisting, so if you don’t hear from us before then, please don’t worry
- We’ll update you with the status of your application, so please make sure your contact details are correct (email address and phone number)
Interview
- Our interviews typically take place at our offices in Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, and it’s a great chance for you to see where you could be working in
- Typically, you’ll spend between 45 minutes and 60 minutes with us, but this will of course depend on the role you’re interviewing for
- We’ll do everything we can to make it a great experience, and we’ll share as much information on the process as we can in your invitation email
- After your interview, we’ll let you know the outcome and how it went
Starting with Us
- If you’re successful in securing the role, we’ll be in contact to discuss your Offer of Employment in more detail, to make sure you have all the information you need
- We’ll agree a start date with you and send all documentation to your email address via our digital signing platform
- As part of your onboarding, we’ll complete a number of onboarding checks which may require you to provide documentation, these include: Obtaining documents to confirm your Right to Work in the UK. Obtaining two work or character-based references. Completing your DBS check (if applicable to your role) Obtaining copies of any qualifications listed in the advert above
- We’ll stay in touch with you throughout your Onboarding, and we’ll see you on your first day with us.
Closing date
15/10/2024