Guardian Careers Near Me – Facilities Assistant

About the job

PADDOCK SCHOOL

36 hours per week, all year round

Permanent

Paddock is a popular, outstanding split site school, known for our excellent internal training programme to develop all staff to be experts. Because of our substantial growth, an excellent opportunity has become available to join our Facilities team.

The Facilities team deal with all day to day issues with the school buildings as well as providing strategic support on projects, with suppliers and budget management. Paddock is a busy environment and we require a skilled Facilities Assistant to join the existing team.

The school follows a robust Health & Safety policy and acts in accordance with Health and Safety regulation and ISO and BSI standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the Schools Support Services are maintained and consistently delivered to a high standard;
• Provide daily “hand’s on” services that are essential to the smooth functioning and operation of the school;
• Provide inter-site and external transport driving services;
• Manage the site stores / stock control;
• Maintain up to date records and adhere to the essential competencies and Service Level Agreements for the role;
• To act as key holder, carrying out security procedures (planned and emergency) for the buildings and grounds; including opening and locking up all buildings, including alarms.

Required Experience

• Previous facilities and building management experience;
• Proficient MS Office and IT skills;
• Good written and oral communication skills;
• Attention to detail;
• Self-motivated.

The successful candidates will demonstrate excellent interpersonal relationships and be proud to work in a school that has the vision to Nurture, Inspire and Transform Lives.

You should be:

• A team player;
• Keen to contribute to school life.

We offer:

• An outstanding training programme;
• A variety of career pathways;
• Opportunities for promotion within the school;
• Opportunities to work with a multi-disciplinary team;
• Access to employee wellbeing scheme.

To apply please download the documents including the Application Form from the Wandsworth Council website which can be found via the ‘visit website’ button at the top of this page.

For further details please contact the school on 020 8878 1521.

Completed application should be returned to the school either by email [email protected] or post.

Closing Date: 11 November 2023 (at noon)

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

This post is subject to a DBS check.

CVs are not accepted.

Paddock Lower and Middle School

Website: https://www.paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk/

Paddock Upper School & Sixth Form

Website: https://www.paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk/