Careers

About The Role

Our new Care Home in Driffield is undergoing development and is expected to be completed in May 2025. The Home is located very close to the centre of Driffield, within walking distance to lots of shops and restaurants such as Forty One.

This luxury 68 bedroomed care home will include facilities such as an in-house bar, restaurant standard dining rooms, a full beauty salon and hairdressing room, a cinema, a convenience store, and outdoor terraces on each floor. The home will offer large, beautiful gardens, with a bowling green, allotments, and private seating areas for family, friends, and residents to enjoy.

All the bedrooms are designed to be spacious and will all come fully furnished with en-suite and all will include highly finished décor and interiors.

The ground-floor bedrooms will include doors out to private patio areas. There are also premium suites which all have their own kitchenettes or lounge areas and have been specially designed for couples or siblings but can be used individually also.

Yorkare Homes is one of the highest CQC-rated care providers nationally and that same level of care will be provided at our Driffield Care Home.

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Operative

(CV selections will commence W/C 3^rd February with interviews beginning to be scheduled starting the following week and ongoing until opening)

£12.60 per hour regardless of age

Shift pattern 8:30am -5pm Monday to Friday (some on-call over the weekend required)

A 40 hours per week role.

The role of Maintenance Operative includes to ensure the residents are provided with safe and well maintained environment in which to live in.

Support is provided by the Estate Manager, Area Maintenance Team, Decorator and Gardener.

It is essential that all our staff are;

• Flexible, caring and compassionate.
• Positive, self-motivated and organised.
• Willing to undertake any training necessary to develop skills and competency relevant to the role.
• Sensitive to the needs of others.
• An active team player and must be able to work on own initiative.
• Possess good communication skills with colleagues and residents.

Overview of Job Description

• To complete health and safety audits to make sure our residents Home is safe.
• To ensure the environment is well maintained, including decorating and gardening.
• To support the Home out of normal hours to if required in an emergency.
• To liaise with the Head Office team and external contractors.
• To review servicing of equipment at the Home.

In return the company will offer you:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Free enhanced DBS check*
• Free Uniform
• Fully comprehensive training and development support from our in-house trainer
• Career Progression
• Staff recognition awards
• Rewards App
• Health Scheme
• Working with a fantastic team of friendly, supportive, like-minded individuals

Yorkare Homes is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer

*Fee will be recouped should you leave within your probationary period.