Maintenance/Gardener
Carebase
Date: 2 hours ago
City: Chelmsford
Contract type: Part time
Job Reference Ref/62/1178
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Contract Type
Part Time
Contract Details
Permanent Part time contract, 10 hours per week, Weekdays
Salary
£13.50 per hour
Working Hours
10 hours per week, Weekday shifts
Location:
Writlle Road, Chelmsford
Closing Date
17/01/2026
Home
Cherry Wood Grange
Benefits of joining our team
Why join us?
We’re proud of our happy home and are dedicated to creating a place where everyone enjoys coming to work each day.
As well being part of a lively and supportive team, we are surrounded by fascinating residents who also bring so much to our lives every day too.
About The Role
As our Maintenance/Gardener, you’ll be responsible for all repairs and maintenance across our home. You’ll walk the home daily to pro-actively identify any areas that need attention, whilst also conducting regular safety checks on various equipment. You’ll create a maintenance programme for the home alongside our Home Manager. You'll also will maintain our lovely garden area by managing and developing our garden areas and ordering gardening supplies when needed and of course you’ll interact with our residents on a daily basis - so you’ll be friendly, caring and kind whilst respecting our residents’ dignity at all times
Here’s some other important things you need to know:
Exceptional people make an exceptional care home
We're looking for people who have a caring nature and want to work as part of an amazing team, surrounded by kindness and fun! For most of the roles in our vibrant care home, you don’t need specific qualifications or experience to be successful as full training is provided.
What we do look for are individuals who share our sense of compassion, care about people’s comfort and happiness and want to make a positive difference to the lives of our treasured residents and team members.
About Us And Our Home
Caring for Our Mental Health – Together
At Cherry Wood Grange Care Home, we believe a happy, supported team delivers the best care. That’s why we’ve signed the Mental Health at Work Commitment – developed by experts with six essential standards that help us to create a home where everyone feels safe, valued, and able to thrive.
From trained Mental Health Champions to our online Wellbeing & Mindfulness Space, we make sure our people have the tools, time, and support they need – because your wellbeing matters here and when we take care of our minds, we can take care of each other and our residents even b
Apply for this job
Apply for this job
Contract Type
Part Time
Contract Details
Permanent Part time contract, 10 hours per week, Weekdays
Salary
£13.50 per hour
Working Hours
10 hours per week, Weekday shifts
Location:
Writlle Road, Chelmsford
Closing Date
17/01/2026
Home
Cherry Wood Grange
Benefits of joining our team
- £13.50 per hour
- Part time – 10 hours per week
- Weekday shifts
- Paid holiday
- Pension
- Staff recognition schemes
- Refer a Friend bonus of up to £1000
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive Training and Career Development
- A friendly and supportive working environment
- Dedicated mental health champions
Why join us?
We’re proud of our happy home and are dedicated to creating a place where everyone enjoys coming to work each day.
As well being part of a lively and supportive team, we are surrounded by fascinating residents who also bring so much to our lives every day too.
About The Role
As our Maintenance/Gardener, you’ll be responsible for all repairs and maintenance across our home. You’ll walk the home daily to pro-actively identify any areas that need attention, whilst also conducting regular safety checks on various equipment. You’ll create a maintenance programme for the home alongside our Home Manager. You'll also will maintain our lovely garden area by managing and developing our garden areas and ordering gardening supplies when needed and of course you’ll interact with our residents on a daily basis - so you’ll be friendly, caring and kind whilst respecting our residents’ dignity at all times
Here’s some other important things you need to know:
- You will need to be experienced at painting and decorating. Having electrical and plumbing skills would be beneficial but not essential
- You will need to demonstrate that you have excellent knowledge of Health and Safety, COSHH, Fire Safety and Food Safety
- You will keep up to date and accurate records of all checks and repairs completed and scheduled
- Know how to develop garden areas, including digging, forking, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, and planting
- Knowledge of how to use hand gardening tools
Exceptional people make an exceptional care home
We're looking for people who have a caring nature and want to work as part of an amazing team, surrounded by kindness and fun! For most of the roles in our vibrant care home, you don’t need specific qualifications or experience to be successful as full training is provided.
What we do look for are individuals who share our sense of compassion, care about people’s comfort and happiness and want to make a positive difference to the lives of our treasured residents and team members.
About Us And Our Home
Caring for Our Mental Health – Together
At Cherry Wood Grange Care Home, we believe a happy, supported team delivers the best care. That’s why we’ve signed the Mental Health at Work Commitment – developed by experts with six essential standards that help us to create a home where everyone feels safe, valued, and able to thrive.
From trained Mental Health Champions to our online Wellbeing & Mindfulness Space, we make sure our people have the tools, time, and support they need – because your wellbeing matters here and when we take care of our minds, we can take care of each other and our residents even b
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