Maintenance Decorator

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom The Perse School Full time
About the Role

The Perse School is seeking a skilled Maintenance Decorator to join our Estates team. As a key member of our maintenance department, you will be responsible for ensuring the school's sites provide a safe, attractive, and well-maintained environment for pupils, staff, and visitors.

Key Responsibilities
  • Decorating: to include the correct preparation of floors, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, the application of wallpaper, stains, emulsions, undercoats, and gloss/satin paints to a high standard.
  • Undertaking small and varied day-to-day maintenance tasks, installations, and support of some of our project work.
  • Using a School device, to use a facilities management software 'Halo' in order to capture, distribute, and report on tasks.
  • Being flexible and willing to undertake additional hours or assist with out-of-hours contractor control, reacting to adverse weather, working in collaboration with other site teams, assisting with security or safety concerns, and other site maintenance concerns or breakdowns.
  • Participating in regular training and development, including Educare and other online courses, tool-box-talks, and face-to-face training to support safe professional practice and ever-improving performance of the role.
  • Carrying out tasks in a manner ensuring the safety of oneself and those around them, and following any risk assessments and policies outlined by the School.
  • Supporting important school events, and therefore it may be requested for the team to work on Open Days, conferences, or similar.
About the School

The Perse School Cambridge is one of the country's leading independent co-educational day schools for children aged 3-18, who attend our Pelican, Prep, or Upper schools.

We aim to be a leading employer of choice, striving to be a school where staff say they are proud and excited to work, and feel valued, respected, and motivated.

We are committed to providing a very competitive salary and benefits scheme at the same time as offering a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional development.

We want our staff to feel engaged and purposeful so that they, in turn, help pupils to be happy and successful.

What We Offer

We actively support equality, diversity, and inclusion and encourage applications from all sections of society.

The School actively supports safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including references from previous employers, a Disclosure and Barring Service check at the enhanced level, as well as eligibility to work in the UK (in compliance with UK immigration regulations).

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone's responsibility. The School is committed to acting in the best interests of the child so as to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.



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