Handy Person

JOB DESCRIPTION AND PARTICULARS OF APPOINTMENT • Job Title: Handyperson • Post Number: P25151 • Grade and SCP: 7 SCP 12 - 17 • Directorate: Place Directorate Where your role fits at Shropshire Council As Shropshire Council we are rightly proud of our achievements and we have proven to be a resilient local authority in our response to the many challenges we overcome, particularly over recent years. We will be continuing this momentum with ambition and a focus on delivering our four key priorities outlined within the Shropshire Plan: Healthy People, Healthy Environment, Health Economy, and Healthy Organisation. We are committed to achieving this by aligning everything we do to our vision 'Shropshire - living the best life'; to tell everyone that Shropshire Council is a great place to be. We will enable a skilled, happy, healthy, diverse, inclusive, empowered, and proud workforce that influences and leads change, addressing any inequalities. As a member of the Handyperson Team within the Place Directorate, you will support the achievement of these key priorities, making a real difference to the lives of people living in Shropshire. Our primary function is concerned with promoting independence and safety for children, families and older people in their own homes and their local community within Shropshire. This will be carried out thorough assessment, partnerships and collaborative working with health, housing, the private and independent sectors. Overview of your role Your main focus will be on completing low level work in people's homes i.e grab rails, stair rails etc to maintain their independence and reduce the risk to the person without them. You will have the ability to use IT, databases, and record service user's information on the database. This will include the use of emails. Who will your manager be and what will you be responsible for? You will be: ▪ Reporting to Team Manager, Handyperson team who is in turn responsible for your health and safety, training, and development. ▪ Supervision and monitoring of work will be undertaken by the Team Manager/Coordinator for Handyperson services. What will you be doing? To support the development and delivery of the Council's vision, values, and strategic objectives. To ensure the delivery of the Council's key functions in accordance with the Councils core values and service standards. To work alongside but independently with Housing Services, Adult Social Care, Health teams and Occupational Therapy team to undertake low-level works in client's own homes. The above duties are an illustrative outline and are not an exhaustive list. You will be expected to become involved in a range of work to enable the service to respond effectively to the changing requirements of the Council and changes affecting the workforce. What we expect of you You will: ▪ Adopt a customer focused approach when delivering your service, ensuring engagement with service users and maintenance of an appropriate personal profile, ▪ Act as an advocate for your service and work collaboratively with colleagues across the whole Council to meet the needs of the people of Shropshire, ▪ Meet individual, service and personal development targets agreed through the Personal Development Review Process, learn from experience, and be committed to continuous improvement individually and as an employee of the Council, ▪ Work with colleagues to meet your team's key performance indicators, support a culture of team working and ensure the team functions successfully in support of the Council's corporate and service objectives, ▪ Meet the behaviours and competencies adopted by the Council in the way in which you achieve your objectives and carry out the work. Main Duties General: • • Installing Stair Rails Installing Grab Rails • Installing hand rails • Building Half Steps • External Wall to Floor & Floor to Floor Rails • • • • • • Assembly of Flat Pack Furniture • Moving Furniture Installing Sensory Smoke Detectors and Doorbells Installing Room Loops Installing & Setting Key Safes Installing Curtain Poles & Rails Installing Shower Rails Carpentry & Joinery: Installing Spindles • Making & Installing Newel Posts • • Door Hanging & Reversing • Fitting & Replacing Door Locks • Fitting & Replacing Window Restrictors & Locks • Making bespoke Safety Gates Plumbing: • Tap Removal and Installation • Washer Replacement Building: • Brick & Block Work • Full Steps • Slab Laying & Re-bedding • Step Extensions Decorating: • Painting, Gloss, Emulsion, Ceilings & Walls • Wallpaper Stripping • Plaster Patching Other: • Measuring up potential jobs to enable quotation • Pricing materials and identifying accurate timescales for completion • Producing quotes to include labour charges • Basic IT skills • Vehicle maintenance • Driving • Ordering & Sourcing Materials • Maintaining your own supply / tool stock levels • Stock taking • Completing in depth 4-weeks of minimum training for new Handypersons on policies, procedures, etc • Undertaking regular training to keep up to date with latest developments • Taking payment for private Handypersons work when developed • Completing works for clients with a range of complex needs, accommodating those needs as described • Completing safeguarding referrals for clients of worry when out completing works, advising the manager, and safeguarding team • Signposting vulnerable clients who need help to the relevant team or charity These duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to become involved in a range of work to enable the service to respond effectively to the changing requirements of the Council and changes affecting the workforce. What are your conditions of Service The conditions of service are those laid down by Shropshire Council, which have been adopted and amended as necessary from those laid down by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services. Your post is subject to the following: • The post is a fixed term contract of 2 years from the time of commencement working 37 hours per week, • Normal office hours are 7 am - 7 pm Monday - Friday with a minimum lunch break of 30 minutes. Actual working hours are 8-4 Mon - Fri This post carries eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme. Information about this will be sent with any formal offer of appointment. Annual leave entitlement is a pro rata flat rate scheme of 207 hours (28 days) annual leave plus bank holidays, with five days extra awarded to those staff with five years local government service giving an entitlement of 244 hours (33 days). Two days of an employee's allowance (pro rota for part time staff) must be taken at Christmas for any potential Christmas closures. Employees who work in a building/service which is required to open over the Christmas period, the two days leave (pro rota) can be carried over into your next leave year but must be used by the end of March. The appointment is subject to one month's notice in writing on either side. The appointment is subject to six months' satisfactory probationary service during which time the notice period will be one week on either side. Smoking is not allowed in Council buildings, in Council vehicles or in any Council place of work. What pre-employment checks will we undertake? The appointment is subject to receipt of the following pre-employment checks: 1. Satisfactory employment references, 2. Medical report, 3. Evidence of the qualifications required for the post/listed on your application form, The applicant appointed to this post will be subject to a Enhanced Disclosure check once the appointment is confirmed. This check will include details of any unspent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Supplying false information or failing to disclose relevant information could be grounds for refusal and could amount to a criminal offence.