Maintenance Assistant

**There is no better time to start a career within our maintenance team than now**

Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?

Troup House School are recruiting for a Maintenance Assistant to join their maintenance team. We are looking for a passionate handyperson and an enthusiastic DIYer, who will carry out reactive day-to-day maintenance issues within the site and their grounds. You will also assist in supporting our other homes in the community, liaising with contractors when on site and ad-hoc requests from management as and when necessary.

**Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more**

Our school is located in a beautiful rural setting near Banff, Aberdeenshire, and is situated within 42 acres of woodlands which enables us to provide unique learning experiences in a safe, positive and nurturing environment. Our naturally therapeutic environment provides the ideal physical surroundings for young people to access compensatory experiences and alternative learning opportunities which form part of their Individual education and care plans. The aim of Troup House School is to take an inclusive approach to ensuring the best experiences and outcomes for our young people by supporting them to achieve the best possible social, academic and vocational outcomes.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

**The role**:

- Under direction, delivers an efficient and effective maintenance service to assist in the well-being, safety and comfort of patients, students and pupils.
- Provides a security service, maintaining the security and integrity of the building as well as the safety of its occupants.
- Maintains a well decorated, safe and comfortable environment throughout the unit, in line with quality standards, and follows work processes which comply with statutory regulations.
- Identifies and reports damage, faults and other related issues to line manager (and then actions as agreed) to ensure that environmental conditions continue to meet quality standards and statutory regulations.
- Undertakes regular internal and external patrols of the unit and its grounds, ensuring that all the windows and doors are closed and locked as appropriate to the time of day.
- Deals with any potential acts of disturbance, vandalism or theft within the grounds, reporting these and any other untoward or suspicious incidents to the manager in charge.
- Maintains an accurate record of all incidents and suspicious activities within a logbook.

**_ If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there._**

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.