Assistant Facilities Manager

Job Title: Assistant Facilities Manager

Location: Ellis Guilford school, Nottingham

Salary: £27,711 - £31,067 per year, actual salary

Start Date: January 2025

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours a week, all year round

About Our School:

Ellis Guilford School is a growing and thriving larger than average secondary school with a clear mission “to ensure that children attending our school have a better chance of success”. With a recently graded “Good” Ofsted in 2023, Ellis Guilford is at an extremely exciting point in its journey. We deliver a broad curriculum and have an extensive co-curricular offer to support our children to become confident, independent and balanced individuals, to allow all pupils to exceed beyond their potential. We do this by putting our values of equality, integrity and ambition at the core of everything we do.

About the facilities team:

The facilities team play a crucial role in maintaining a safe, clean environment conducive to learning. Many areas from building maintenance and security are effectively managed by the team to ensure that classrooms and common areas are well-equipped and functional. By coordinating with other schools in the trust, they can share resources and best practices, enhancing the overall efficiency and quality of the facilities. Their efforts ensure that students and staff have a comfortable and supportive environment, allowing them to focus on education and personal development.

About You:

As Assistant Facilities Manager at Ellis Guilford School, you will bring a keen eye for detail, be self-motivated and have a commitment to creating a safe and welcoming environment for students and staff. You will need to thrive when working autonomously in the role, assist with the organisation and management of contractors on site, be able to drive projects to practical completion and undertake as required repair and maintenance work whilst dealing effectively with day to day facilities issues as they arise. Our ideal candidate would have:

·       Experience in managing facilities within a large school or similar setting in the education sector.

·       Preferably already have a recognised health and safety qualification (IOSH Managing Safely or similar as a minimum) or be willing to work to this qualification

·       Experience of using a facilities management system and have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office

·       Proven initiative and ability to work without direct supervision, taking entire responsibility for tasks, prioritising and scheduling own workload.

·       Have a first-rate customer focused and flexible approach to work

Requirements:

To apply for the Assistant Facilities Manager opportunity, you must hold:

·       At least GCSE grade C or 5 or equivalent in English and Maths

About Creative Education Trust:

Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people.

We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.

CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:

CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.

We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.

Next Steps:

Applications close 9.00am Monday 6th January 2025

Please submit your application through our website using the direct online application method.

We warmly welcome visits to our school or if you would like to arrange a confidential conversation with the Line Manager of this position, please jo.bingham@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk who would be happy to assist in arranging this.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. We will hold interviews as soon as we have received enough applications from suitably qualified applicants. If a successful appointment is not made, then we will repeat the process. Please do not hesitate to contact stevanie.hemingway@ellisguilfordschool.org.uk if you would like an update on your application and details of a potential interview date.

Essential Information:

Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.

All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.

The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.