Who are we?
Home Help and Care Liège – Huy – Waremme, in partnership with the Mutualité Chrétienne de Liège, offers and coordinates integrated, multidisciplinary home help and care services in the districts of Liège, Huy and Waremme.
It promotes networking in order to meet patients' needs.
To achieve this, it can count on the collaboration of more than 750 professionals (family carers, nurses, nursing assistants, home carers, coordinators, social domestic helpers, multi-skilled workers, childcare workers, etc.).
Within the ASD, the social economy department offers and implements services that complement the care and assistance provided by their colleagues. Its activities include a sewing and ironing centre, home care services, various interior work and home maintenance. We work with people who have lost their physical or social independence (elderly people, isolated people, people with disabilities and/or financial difficulties).
As technical manager, As a member of the social and administrative middle management team, you act as the interface between the multi-skilled social home worker and the beneficiary, upholding the values that underpin the helping relationship.
Through your work, you contribute to enabling our beneficiaries to remain in their own homes and to improving their physical and emotional well-being.
You report to the assistant to the DES Director.
Types of work
- Painting and wallpapering a room from start to finish.
- Ceiling work.
- Plumbing (e.g. bleeding a radiator).
- Minor plumbing repairs (repairing a toilet, flush, tap, unblocking, etc.).
- Electrical work (changing or installing a light fixture, replacing a light bulb, etc.). Carpentry (planing a door, installing a hinge or handle, small cuts, etc.).
- Tiling (replacement of a splashback in a kitchen or bathroom, no floor tiling).
- Bricklaying (repairing an exterior wall, a crack, levelling, etc.).
- Maintenance of outdoor areas during the season (maintenance of window frames, garden sheds, lawn mowing, brush clearing, pruning, etc.).
Your responsibilities
CONSTRUCTION SITE MANAGEMENT:
- You carry out home visits to analyse and process the beneficiary's request and provide initial advice on adaptations. You check that the various actions are carried out correctly.
- You prepare estimates based on rough measurements in order to carry out renovation and/or repair work (painting, wallpapering, exterior maintenance, installation of security equipment, minor electrical work, minor plumbing and carpentry).
- You will be responsible for managing the stock of materials and tools, including placing orders, tracking, receiving and checking.
- You prepare and ensure supplies for each construction site for multi-skilled workers.
- You keep yourself informed about market price trends.
TEAM MANAGEMENT:
- You will support and supervise a team of versatile social workers, working in tandem with your colleague when you first take up the position.
- You organise and plan the work for your team members: you distribute and assign projects according to geographical areas and your colleagues' specialisations.
- You monitor staff performance (absences, holidays, etc.) and arrange for replacements as necessary.
- You prepare and organise team meetings.
- You will assist in recruiting a future member and will be responsible for their induction, training and integration.
- You act as a mediator in the event of conflict and ensure good relations and cohesion in general.
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT:
- You are responsible for the administrative management of your assignments in accordance with the objectives set.
- You draft, send and follow up on quotations. You make changes to them as needed and requested.
- You check and forward supplier invoices and other invoices to the accounting department.
- You are encoding data.
- You seek out and build new partnerships to diversify your activities and expand your network.
- You suggest ways to improve and ensure the development of your department (calls for projects, search for additional training, subsidies, commercial and technical relations, etc.).
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- You promote and uphold ASD's operations and values; you ensure that your professional activities comply with the FASD quality charter at all times.
- You comply with the rules of professional ethics, duty of discretion, professional secrecy and shared secrecy.
- You actively participate in training courses (in consultation with the ASD Management) and put the skills you have acquired into practice.
- You participate in meetings and comply with the decisions made and/or actions to be taken.
Desired profile
- You have a technical degree and initial experience in team management. In-depth knowledge of the non-profit sector is a major asset.
- You demonstrate managerial qualities: you have the ability to support, motivate and unite your team members. Your social skills enable you to support and supervise the organisation of daily work and develop new projects (e.g. improving and developing the adaptation of a home for a person with reduced independence).
- You have sound technical knowledge of construction to coordinate renovation and refurbishment work, both indoors and outdoors.
- You demonstrate autonomy, initiative and rigour in your administrative follow-ups.
- You can easily adapt to each new situation you encounter and respond creatively when proposing solutions.
- You have a sense of responsibility and enjoy interacting with people. You express yourself easily both in writing and orally, and you adapt your communication style to suit your audience.
- You have good organisational skills and demonstrate strong analytical abilities.
- You are proficient in Office Suite, particularly Excel. You are able to learn and use new software.
What we offer
- A human adventure that is built on a daily basis, in a multidisciplinary team using communication and mutual support as tools.
- A salary package based on current pay scales, CP 318.01
- A permanent contract for 32 hours per week.
- 20 days of statutory leave and 12 days of extra-statutory leave, 3 additional days of leave (full-time equivalent).
- A laptop and a work smartphone.
- A respectful work-life balance.
- Location: your office is located in Grâce-Hollogne, and you will be working across all three of our districts: Liège-Huy-Waremme.
Want to be part of the human adventure?
Send your CV and a few lines about your motivations to: job@asdliege.be
- The recruitment team will contact you by telephone to better understand your career plans and answer any questions you may have.
- We will meet with you for two interviews at our offices.
Come and experience a different way of «taking care»... A way that suits you!