Facilities Manager

Location: Warwickshire, UK

Salary: £21,579 - £25,604.83

Education Phase: Through School

Working Pattern: Part-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 11/12/2024

Interview Date: TBC

About us

Venture Academy is a specialist school for children and young people aged 9 -16 years with autism and/or a social, emotional or mental health diagnosis. The school has capacity for 50 students and is based in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire

Job Description

Reporting to our Business Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the site’s security, cleaning, building and grounds maintenance. You will oversee health and safety of the site ensuring that all planned preventative maintenance is carried out in a timely manner. You will line manage a facilities team and ensure that the academy maintains high standards of presentation, repair and cleanliness. You will work with the Business Manager to develop schedules of maintenance work to be carried out, agree budgets and negotiate preferred rates with contractors.

You will ideally be undertaking a similar role with experience of facilities management either in the private and public sector to include demonstrative experience of building maintenance and repairs. You will have the relevant knowledge of regulatory bodies relating to facilities and the associated health and safety to include writing Risk Assessments. You will be an effective communicator both written and verbal and in turn be a confident negotiator. We need someone who will have a commitment to ensuring that all work that is carried out is undertaken to a very high standard.

Due to the size of our school we require the right candidate to be reactive and operational as well as organised and compliance focussed. You will need to be prepared to take a hands on approach to tasks throughout the school.

You will also need to be able to work on your own initiative, able to prioritise your workload effectively. You need to be sensitive to the needs of children and young people with learning disabilities and have an attitude towards others based on respect, dignity and equality.

Benefits

Our people are the heart of our success 

A competitive salary  

·        Excellent local government pension scheme 

·        Family Friendly policies 

·        Wellbeing, Bereavement and Menopause policies 

·        Enhanced Sick Pay 

·        Wellbeing initiatives in your setting 

·        Full induction 

·        Training and development and the support of a trained line manager and dedicated senior leaders 

·        Access to further professional development  

·        Cycle to Work Scheme 

·        Annual MAT Life Day to take for that special occasion 

·        Annual Flu Jabs 

·        Free eye tests through Specsavers 

·        An Employee Assistance Programme to Support your health and wellbeing an access to various perks including discounts Tesco, Cineworld, Go Ape and many more 

·        Death in Service 

·        Long Service Recognition 

·        Recommend a Friend Scheme - £100 Voucher 

·        Trained Mental Health First Aiders 

·        Enhanced DBS Certificate (Paid for by MacIntyre Academies) 

·        Self service portal to facilitate leave and amend personal information 

·        We have an active employee engagement programme which includes Termly ‘You are Awesome’ awards, an annual Employee Big Thank you Day, Annual CPD Trust wide conference. 

·        Access to Blue Light Card/ Discounts for Teachers which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for social care staff/ Teachers and support staff 

Essential Criteria

MacIntyre Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions will require an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and registration with the DBS Update Service together with all other relevant recruitment checks including obtaining references. This post includes engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide: DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Referees will be asked to assess suitability of candidates to work with vulnerable adults, children or young people and will be verbally verified. Individual Safeguarding Policies for our Academies can be found on our website under ‘Essential Information’ and candidates will be asked about this as part of the recruitment process.

In line with the update to KSCIE 2022 MacIntyre Academies will carry out an online search of the candidate once the shortlisting process has been completed as part of their due diligence. This may involve a google search of the candidate’s name, looking at the top three search results over the past three years. If any incidents or issues are identified that are publicly available online this will be explored with the candidate at interview stage. 

*Salaries are based on Full-Time-Equivalent and are pro-rata for part time roles. Salaries are dependent on experience with option of additional hours through the extended school provision.