As a Voids Multi Skilled Technician, you will be required to complete maintenance work within our empty/void properties. Being skilled in 3 trades or more, you will be responsible for completing repairs to our empty homes and ensuring that the properties are ready for re- letting.

The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications and/or be able to demonstrate solid previous experience in this type of maintenance work. The successful candidate must have a relevant City and Guilds or NVQ or relevant experience in maintenance and repairs work specific to trades. A sound knowledge of relevant legislation and/or Codes of Practice i.e. Construction, building regulations and health and safety is required

As a Paradigm Technician working for our DLO (Direct Labour Operation), we’ll supply you with a fully equipped hybrid van (no insurance renewals or services to concern yourself with as we do that) and a fuel card to ensure you can get around easily. We’ll provide you with an electronic tablet where your you can see your scheduled jobs and access our intranet for the latest company news. You’ll also get a mobile ‘phone, work clothing and PPE and we’ll aim to book your jobs in your local area where possible.

We offer a very generous package including the following:

• Holidays – 25 days to start (this rises with service to a maximum of 30 days) plus 3 paid days between Xmas and new year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to condition
• Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
• Annual Bonus potential
• On-call potential payments (for some roles, depending on business needs)

• Family Friendly policies incl generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
• Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category!
• Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions)
• Opportunities for career advancement – if that’s what you want, but it’s fine if you don’t
• Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

If the above appeals to you apply today and/or pass on these vacancy details to someone who may also fit the bill. What have you got to lose?

We are a Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. The organisation is clearly focussed on the delivery of its five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.

We welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification.

We will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time, therefore reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

Further information

For the full job description, role specific requirements and person specification please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (email address removed) and we will respond as soon as possible.

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.