Call/email Alisdair at School Staffing Solutions Recruitment to get an application form and to receive a full job description
This school is part of a UK wide group of 28 Special Needs Schools.
They have an amazing benefits and will pay for all your training.
Maintenance Assistant
Locations: Smallfield, Caterham and Effingham, Surrey
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £25,604.80 – £28,704 dependent on experience
Hours: 40 hours per week – Monday to Friday – to include 3pm – 8pm – Additional 3 hours per day candidate choice
Your Skills & Qualifications for this job:
- Flexibility and sensitivity to the needs of a wide range of users with complex needs is essential.
- Understands and can apply Legislation and Regulations relating to all aspects of site management e.g. to fire, health and safety, Legionella, asbestos, security, COSHH and Safeguarding (within a college/ school environment preferred).
- Competent at basic building repairs and maintenance and grounds maintenance and to effectively delegate and monitor work of others.
- Computer literacy skills essential due to the utilisation of the internal CAFM system.
- Knowledge of current Health & Safety regulations. Health and Safety qualification desirable.
- Ability to liaise with staff at all levels of technical knowledge.
- Enthusiastic and pro-active, keen to be involved. General maintenance knowledge preferably with a qualification in electrics / plumbing. Alternatively, a construction trade.
- Customer service and problem solving approach
Benefits:
- Life assurance
- Pension
- Perkbox – offering high street discounts.
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme.
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan – Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
We’re currently looking to recruit a Maintenance Assistant to join a team across school sites in Surrey. You will be working from 3 school sites in Smallfield, Caterham and Effingham.
With your team members, you will be responsible for ensuring that all matters relating to the continuous operation, grounds and equipment are maintained in such a way that ensures a high quality site service is provided at all times thus ensuring the safeguarding, health, safety and general well-being of all those accessing the site.
You will be working with the premises manager you will also contribute to the development of the services through site expansion projects and integrating new/developed buildings.
Students range from 6 – 16 years old across the sites with difficulties with communication and social interaction, typically associated with Autism.
School Staffing Solutions Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.
