Maintenance Assistant

One YMCA are poised and ready to enter a period of rapid expansion and growth, with aspirations to both diversify and strengthen our housing provision. As part of these exciting plans, we have newly established Place & environment team who will focus on providing a full range of maintenance and repairs works that includes delivering our unique programme of major stock refurbishment.
The Labourer role will be providing support and general repairs on a reactive basis with a particular emphasis on general handyman works to include changing of light fixtures/light bulbs, replacing door handles and locks, painting and decorating, general wear and tear maintenance and turning around void’s to a hight standard.
As well as carrying out reactive repairs, the post holder will be responsible for some planned maintenance activities such as planned refurbishments as part of One YMCA’s ongoing efforts to ensure a safe environment for our residents, staff and visitors.
The post-holder will form an essential part of one YCMA’s customer focused service delivery and, as such, will always maintain the highest standards in terms of workmanship. Putting our customers first, you will ensure work is completed safely, quickly and in line with one YMCA’s internal standards. You will demonstrate high quality workmanship and will have a ‘saying what I do and doing what I say’ attitude. The post holder will also work closely with other members of the Place & Environment team, but be equally confident when working on their own.

One YMCA and its subsidiaries, the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade, via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive, three-day Kickstarter Event.

By the end of these three days, there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas, which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do “more and better, together” so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.

These include:

• Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
• Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
• Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
• Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
• Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
• Family support through a network of children’s and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
• Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
• Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire, Luton and Hertfordshire
• Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
• Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
• A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity, and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.