Facilities Assistant

Do you have what it takes to be a Facilities Assistant?

Are you a team player with excellent communication skills? Can you effectively engage with our learners to ensure they understand our behavioural expectations?

We are seeking a Facilities Assistant who will play a vital role in creating a safe and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors. You will work closely with the Facilities Supervisor to achieve this.

• Conduct routine maintenance tasks to keep our campus in top condition.
• Adhere to strict health and safety guidelines.
• Ensure teaching and learning spaces are well-maintained and functional.
• Carry out regular inspections to identify and address maintenance issues.
• Contribute to a clean, hygienic, and inviting campus environment.

The role is 37 hours per week, spread equally over 5 days. The campus currently operates Monday to Friday. Your role is over 52 weeks. Weekend work may be required when we have any external or internal college events.

What You Will Do

• Litter Picking, cleaning external areas.
• Refilling photocopiers and distributing internal and external mail.
• Setting up of rooms, which include moving furniture for teaching and exam requests.
• Assisting the Facilities Supervisor with weekly compliance checks.
• Unlocking and Locking up of the premises including setting of the Intruder Alarm.
• Assist the site team and provide support with the Emergency Evacuation Procedures such as Fire Alarm Activations and any other emergency.
• Support the Facilities Supervisor with on-site contractors and visitors, ensuring an understanding of the College guidelines and procedures. 
• Minor repairs.

About You

The most important and essential attributes for this role are a commitment to self-development and to deliver outstanding customer service to our students and staff. Attributes required are: good interpersonal skills, being able to communicate effectively, be a team player, stay focused on the tasks in hand and be able to deal with challenging situations in a calm and measured manner.

English and Maths GCSE or equivalent is essential, along with a willingness to take part in a First Aid at Work course with the college and undertake all mandatory online training.

Benefits

There are plenty of benefits available to our staff members, here are just a few:

• Generous Annual leave entitlement - If you work full time, you'll get at least 39 days holiday plus bank holidays. This includes closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part time staff).
• Support Staff 39 days
• Academic 44 days
• Senior Management 44 days
• Excellent Pension schemes
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme 
• Local Government Pension Scheme 
• Memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes such as TOTUM card (formerly NUS card). 
• Travel and commuting - discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
• Learning and development opportunities - including staff development days
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities - this will vary depending on role requirements

About Us

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.

Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.

SAFEGUARDING

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity. Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. We continually assess and improve our practices to ensure that every individual, regardless of background, has an equal chance to succeed. By championing EDI, we aim to create a workforce that reflects the richness of our communities and drives innovation through diverse perspectives. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.