Premises Officer

**Part time (20 hours per week)**

**About us and the role**

This is an exceptional opportunity to join the Avanti Court Primary School’s site team.

Are you practical, can you turn your hand to most things, good at solving problems, able to use your own initiative, have good people skills, have high standards for health and safety and a clean and organised environment?

Are you a can-do person who is reliable, hardworking, patient, well organised, self-motivated, takes pride in their work, and has a sense of humour?

Then we need YOU

We need an exceptional person as our Premises Officer to join our team at Avanti Court Primary School who will support ensuring the site and premises are safe, secure and well organised so that our children have the very best learning environment.

The staff at Avanti Court Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our pupils. All staff that work at our school subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our children. This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both children and staff:

- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight

We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our children to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment, we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all children enjoy learning and surpass expectations.Why should you apply

**Why should you apply**

You will be working in a fantastic environment.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

**What will you do?**
- Keeping premises, grounds and car park tidy, swept and free of leaf and litter accumulation and ensuring hard surfaces are free from weeds, including providing an emergency ad hoc response in the event of adverse weather conditions to undertake snow clearance and gritting. Keeping external rubbish bins emptied.
- Receiving incoming goods and mail, receipting, sorting and ensuring correct distribution and dispatch. This does not include specialist equipment which should be organised by the responsible department. e.g. art displays, IT deliveries, science chemicals, exam and confidential papers etc.
- Setting up of all scheduled room layouts, equipment and the setting up during open evenings and weekends.
- Monitoring of car park at specified intervals, ensuring that only authorised users (from the list provided by the School) are parked
- For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description_

**What are we looking for?**
- Good communication skills; written and verbal.
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Numeracy and Literacy.
- General knowledge of building maintenance procedures and relevant skills
- Understanding of Health and Safety and security issues.
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision.
- Good organisational skills
- ability to meet deadlines and make decisions in emergencies.
- Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role._

**Further information**

Pre-employment checks

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

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