Facilities Assistant

We are recruiting for a prestigious, thriving school based in Northwood set within beautiful grounds. They are committed to delivering academic excellence and dedicated to equipping pupils with the skills needed to go places in a rapidly changing world

The facilities team ensure that the operation of the school’s facilities meet the needs of the school.

You will play a vital role in maintaining security of the school site and providing an onsite response in emergency situations.

**What’s in it for you?**
- **Salary: £24k**:

- **Hours: 40 hours per week, one weekend in 3**:

- **Annual Leave: 30 days (6 weeks’ holiday per annum)**:

- **Competitive pay**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Deliver a high-quality porter/caretaker service
- Ensure safe and effective systems of work are followed
- Implement safe and effective systems for the operation of lettings including site inductions and facility walk throughs & fire drills for new lettings
- Work with wider Facilities team to provide site security and security service provision
- Be an active member of the school’s fire team
- Lock and unlock school site
- Provide site security
- Provide out of hours On-call fire and intruder provisions
- Clean and clear to required standards
- Ensure safe and timely set up of events and function for both internal
- and external activities. Liaise and distribute deliveries of goods and equipment.
- Assist Senior Site officer in collecting monthly utility readings
- Monitor and communicate with onsite visitors, contractors, and hirers
- Provide health and safety inductions for new hirers

**What the employer is looking for**:

- Must own a car, hold a clean driving licence
- 2 years’ facilities experience or experience as a caretaker for a large or multi-faceted site
- Excellent organisational and customer service skills
- Good written and oral communications
- An understanding of quality assurance and experience of delivering high quality services
- Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, regulations
- Experience of overseeing third party contractors
- A strong sense of personal accountability
- Energetic self-starter with a positive outlook and remains calm under pressure
- Available to work 5 days over a 7-day week (approx. one weekend in 3)
- Red Door Recruitment _is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Full details available on our website.