Trade Careers

Are you a qualified, experienced trade professional looking for a new career with purpose?

Join us at our Qualified Trade jobs fair and explore a range of roles, opportunities and learn about us as an employer.

You will be able to meet the team, talk about roles and vacancies and if it’s a match, walk away with a job offer just in time for Christmas!

Location: Parks Leisure Centre, Howdon Road, North Shields, NE29 6TL

Date and time: 2.30pm to 6pm, Wednesday 25 September 2024

Housing and Property Services is responsible for the delivery of all repairs, maintenance and construction activity to the housing stock, public buildings, and schools across North Tyneside.

We have some ambitious plans and key service priorities for the upcoming year, including:

• Over £26m annually invested in our council homes, from kitchen and bathroom replacements to replacing the roofs.
• We deliver over 45,000 responsive repairs per year across our 14,000 homes
• Complete over 3,000 repairs to our Public Buildings across the borough
• Provide 5,000 affordable homes
• Reduce the number of derelict properties across the borough to support our affordable homes programme
• Provide a fit for purpose housing stock which supports a thriving, secure and green borough

Although as a qualified tradesperson you may be asked to work across different services areas, this event will focus on finding motivated individuals to support our Kitchen and Bathroom replacement programme.

This service area consists of a dedicated, highly skilled team of approximately 30 individuals. We target around 400 properties each year replacing the kitchen and bathrooms, as well as electrical refurbishments.

The work is extremely rewarding with a real sense of satisfaction for those involved.

As an employee of North Tyneside Council, you will feel valued from the moment you join us. We have a comprehensive induction process to ensure you are supported in your role from day one and our experienced and approachable management team will support you to achieve your professional goals.

Not only does North Tyneside Council offer competitive rates of pay, as an employer we also offer a wide range of employee benefits which include, but not limited to:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (for contracts of 3 months or more)
• A supportive Occupational Sick Pay scheme
• A range of flexible working and leave options, including part-time working, to support work/life balance (subject to business requirements)
• Access to Occupational Health services including physiotherapy and counselling
• Our Employee Assistance Programme which includes a telephone helpline and extensive online resources for support and advice
• Extensive training and development opportunities including access to our Learning Pool online platform
• Supported career progression
• Discounted membership of our Leisure Centres including 5 gyms; 4 pools; 2 spas and over 250 classes every week
• The Benefits Plus Scheme, enabling salary sacrifice for Car Leasing, Cycle to Work Scheme, additional annual leave, public transport season tickets, and professional subscriptions
• Credit Union Savings Scheme

Not a lot is the simple answer.

If you have an up-to-date CV, that outlines your career history, please bring this along to share with us on the day.

We want to be able to have an informal, experience and skills-based conversation with you and by bringing your CV, you will support us with this conversation. If you don’t have a CV, don’t worry, we would love to chat with you anyway.

As this is a qualified trade event, we would also like to see proof of your qualification, such as a certificate. Again, don’t worry if you don’t have this available to the day. This is something we can get from you at a later date.

We also understand that not everyone will have a qualification and that length of experience can often be equally important, so if this is you, please come along and have a chat with one of our team.

If we think you're the type of person we are looking for, with experience and values that match ours, then the job is yours.

Sounds good to be true - What's the catch?

No catch. It really is this simple.

We just need to do a few little checks before we can issue you a contract.

These include:

• Right to work in the UK
• Medical discussion with one of our Occupational Health professionals
• Two references (Ideally one from your last employer)

More information on roles and responsibilities is available on the day.

If you have any questions please contact peopleteamrecruitment@northtyneside.gov.uk