Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
01/10/2019
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 24/10/2019 13:30
Job Category:
Building Maintenance / Caretaking
Employment Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Further Information
Closing date: 24 October 2019 at 11.30pm
Interviews: 6 November 2019
Are you an experienced handyperson with excellent decorating, gardening and general DIY skills looking for a role that lets you enjoy your evenings and weekends? You’ve found it! Join us as a DIY Support Advisor and help our service users learn how to maintain and improve their homes.
Benefits include 30 days annual leave, the possibility of flexible working, enhanced family friendly policies and significant opportunities for learning and development.
About the role:
You’ll provide practical assistance to people in their own home, ranging from painting/decorating and gardening, to teaching basic DIY skills. However, this is no normal DIY job. You’ll be taking on a demanding workload and some people we work with have complex issues including homelessness, mental and physical health issues and substance misuse. Your work will contribute to our service users’ support package and you’ll need a real interest in sharing your skills with this group. Prioritising work according to the needs of the service users involved will be important and you will be supported with this by the team and your manager.
About you:
You’ll be skilled in a variety of household DIY areas, e.g. decorating and gardening etc. and will be able to prioritise and organise your work. We’ll also be looking for experience of advising and supervising others undertaking practical tasks around the home. What’s more, you’ll need a full clean driving licence, the ability to complete and maintain records of all work carried out and the ability to use Microsoft office applications.
Please note that you will be required to have an enhanced DBS check for this role.
For further information about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. We campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.