Facilities Coordinator

**Full Job Description**:
**Location: The Falkland House School, Fife, Scotland, KY15 7AEe**

**Salary: £23,000 per annum**

**Hours: 40 hours per week**

**Contract: Permanent**

We are looking for an experienced Facilities Coordinator to join our fantastic team at Falkland House School

**Job purpose**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensuring Garden and surrounding areas, including pathways, hedging, trees, car parking and external play areas are well maintained.
- Move heavy and awkward shaped furniture and supplies
- To supervise all external contractors ensuring that all necessary procedures are adhered to.
- Maintain security of the site e.g. opening and closing of premises in line with procedures
- Be a named key holder for emergency call outs. Liaise with the alarm company as and when required.
- To ensure that all equipment and materials are used in accordance with Health & Safety guidelines.
- To ensure that company tools and equipment are kept in good order and propose solutions to repair any faulty tools or equipment to the School Administration Manager.
- To have weekly meetings with the SLT to discuss the operation of the site.
- To undertake banking runs as and when required.
- To provide transport duties including mini bus runs as required

The successful applicant will previous experience in a similar setting and hold a clean full UK Driving Licence.

**About us**

Falkland House School is an independent school offering day and residential placements to boys with autism and complex needs, including learning difficulties. The majority of young people are residential placements aged 8-18 years old and are a mix of 38 and 52 weeks.

The site is based in Fife, Scotland and is part of Acorn Care and Education, the second largest private sector provider of special needs education in the country operating 20 schools and 19 residential homes for children and young people. As specialists in our field we will take a holistic approach to learning that wraps therapeutic care and educational support around the individual needs of each child. With the therapeutic support and nurturing environment that will be offered, pupils will be able to develop their social skills, emotional skills and resilience alongside their academic development.

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.