School Maintenance Operative

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Department**: Premises

**Job Title**: School Maintenance Operative

**Grade**: To be negotiated

**Responsible to: Estate’s manager**

**Supervisory Responsibility**: None

**Important Functional Relationships**:Internal: Estates Manager and Central Team, Premises Team, Heads of School, Pupils, Staff

External: Parents, contractors, other Schools and Colleges, suppliers of goods and services, visitors, cleaning contractors.

**Main Purpose of Job**:
To maintain a high standard of security, cleanliness, safety and general maintenance of school buildings, grounds, and facilities for all school sites, to provide practical support in arrangements for meetings/events and to assist in maintaining the security of the school. To meet and liaise with contractors on site to ensure works are carried out correctly.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To report any major defects in building, equipment and security systems observed in the course of duties and to liaise with approved contractors. To liaise closely with the school admin teams and central team.
- To assist in the collection and disposal of all refuse and ensure the school buildings and grounds are free of litter and graffiti. To ensure, in winter especially, that access roads, pavements, steps and playgrounds are always safe for use where possible
- To manage and operate systems of staffing cover for lettings and other community usage of the premises, to advise on the security of buildings during periods of lettings and to ensure appropriate heating arrangements are made to meet lettings demands.
- To undertake regular inspections of the site and report significant defects and remedy minor defects.
- To take deliveries of stores, materials, and other goods and to undertake porterage duties as required.
- To undertake occasional gardening duties.
- To undertake routine maintenance and minor refurbishment of premises, fixtures, and fittings, as necessary.
- To maintain the overall security arrangements of the premises including ensuring that staff are aware of the procedures on security and the use of alarm systems, that there is an appropriate system of key holding management, that periodic reviews of site security are conducted, and that appropriate progress action is followed through.
- To ensure general cleanliness and tidiness of all hard surface areas of the school, including drains.
- To maintain records and complete paperwork as required to maintain compliance throughout the Trust.
- To attend site meetings as required.
- To respond to emergencies, when necessary, in respect of accident, failure, break in, or weather.
- To maintain confidentiality of information acquired while undertaking duties for the department.
- To be responsible for your own continuing self-development, undertaking training as appropriate.
- To work across the Trust providing support to other schools as directed by the estate’s manager.
- To undertake other duties appropriate to the grading of the post as required.

Date Prepared:
Job Description Prepared by: Reviewed by

**St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust**

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Job Title**: School Maintenance Operative

**Department**:School based

**Person Specification prepared by**: St Barnabas Multi Academy Trust

**Date prepared**:
**Relevant Experience**

**Essential**:Good standard of practical knowledge, skills and 3 years ‘experience of maintenance work.

Relevant experience of managing staff/contractors in a building maintenance environment.

**Desirable**:Good standard of practical knowledge, skills and experience of building and grounds maintenance work in a school or similar environment

**How identified**:Interview/Application form

**Education and Training**

**Essential**:Level 2 NVQ, GNVQ or GCSE qualifications plus suitable trade qualification. Level 1 qualifications may be considered if accompanied by extensive relevant experience.

**Desirable**:Basic Health and Safety Qualification

Lifting and manual handling training.

Asbestos awareness

**How identified**:Interview/Application form

**Special Knowledge and Skills**

**Essential**:Good practical skills, Organisational skills, communication skills and general knowledge of building maintenance.

**Desirable**:Knowledge of child protection issues and procedures - safeguarding.

**How identified**:Interview/Application form

**Any additional factors**

**Essential**:Ability to undertake physically demanding work.Comfortable with children/young people.Team worker.Flexible approach to work requirements. Ability to work on your own initiative.Displays an awareness, understanding and commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.

**How identified**:Interview/Application form

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £18,280.00-£24,466.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute