General Operative

Salary: £25,785 per annum

Location: Bath

Contract Type Permanent: Full-Time

Closing Date: 02/03/2025 23:59

1st Stage Interviews: 19th February 2025

What you'll be doing

You will join our Empty Homes Team, assisting in the repair and maintenance of our empty properties ensuring they are at a suitable standard to be re let. Your main duty will be completing Clearances of our empty properties, maintaining gardens, basic ground works and supporting the empty homes trade teams with day-to-day tasks. We are a forward-thinking organisation so technology will play an important part in your role and as such you must be comfortable using a tablet device.

More about you

You will ideally have a range of basic trade skills, ideally with some experience of delivering high quality and timely works to domestic dwellings.

You will also have the aptitude to work with mobile technology and demonstrate a commitment to delivering first class customer service, ensuring works are carried out to a high standard and, whenever possible, resolved at the first visit.

You will need to have a full driving license as you will be allocated your own van.

At the same time you will demonstrate resilience and the desire to work in an interesting environment where no day is ever the same!

We will need to take up an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check for this role which we will do for you when you start.

What you’ll get in return

We think you’ll have a job that makes you feel good about what you’re doing and help us to make a difference to our customers’ lives every day.

So in return for all your hard work, not only do you get a great salary but we also offer:

34 days annual leave including bank holidays (rising to 37 days after 3 years’ service).
An additional day’s leave on your birthday
Contributory (Salary Sacrifice) Pension Scheme matched by CURO up to 10%
Annual ‘Homes for Good’ Reward.
Life Assurance Policy (up to 6x your annual salary)
Flexible Benefits including the ability to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave, gym membership, Health Cash Plan, Computer Scheme, Green Cars, Cycle to Work
‘Perks at Work’ – access to 1000’s of discounts online and in-store.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – providing friendly impartial advice on financial, health, work or mental wellbeing.
Free Parking at many of our Offices.

For an informal discussion about the role please call: Lee Graveson on 07837987963

We will be closing applications on 16th February 2025, however we will be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the vacancy earlier should we find the right applicant. So, if you think you’re the person for this job, please don’t delay and apply today!

About Curo

Curo is an organisation with social purpose at its heart. We provide affordable homes that help people find security and stability and a positive future. We’re one of the largest housing associations in the South West and an expanding house builder, using our profits to create more affordable housing in our communities.

Our values are at the core of how we work. We care about our colleagues and their wellbeing and recognise their sense of pride in the work they do to support our customers.

We’re proud to say that since 2016 we have been ranked by Best Companies as being in the UK's top 75 Large Companies to work for. We're also listed in the top 10 best housing associations to work for in the country, and among the top 25 best companies to work for in the South West!

One more thing

We provide homes and services to a community that is diverse. We recognise that we need to do more to ensure that the colleagues in our organisation better reflect and understand the community we serve and for that reason we particularly welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and abilities. We are a recognised ‘disability confident’ employer and we have also signed up to the Social Housing Anti-Racism Pledge (SHARP). We guarantee to interview all disabled, black or minority ethnic applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.

If you need support to assist you to make an application or attend an interview, then please email our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk and we will be happy to help.