Facilities Assistant

Job Advertisement: Facilities Assistant

Contract type: Permanent- Full- time 37 hours per week, Full Year

Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley

Salary: NJC Scale 3 £23,500 – £23,893

Closing date: 20th September 2024

Interview date: TBC

Details of the Role

The role of Facilities Assistant will be to assist in ensuring the safe, efficient, and effective day to day running of the Facilities Department & Estates service through the satisfactory performance and completion of planned preventative maintenance, cyclical programs, and other required duties.

The Facilities Assistant will be reporting to the School Assistant Facilities Manager and will be responsible for providing a safe and fit for purpose school premises for pupils, staff, visitors and volunteers to complete their day-to-day activities. This will include ensuring that all school operations comply with relevant legislation, assisting with routine building inspections to detect and report any defects to the Facilities Manager/ Assistant Facilities Manager, and undertaking an appropriate programme of repair and maintenance for the property and grounds.

We are looking for a candidate who has experience in managing facilities within a large school or similar setting, strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, and has the initiative and ability to work without direct supervision, taking entire responsibility for tasks, prioritising and scheduling own workload. A Full driving license with access to a car is essential.

Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk

About ELT

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities. 

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

●      Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities

●      School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry

●      Opportunities for professional development and leadership

●      A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings 

●      Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

 We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).