Estates Assistant

**About The Role**:
**Join Our Team and Keep Our Dover College Running Smoothly**

We’re looking for a proactive and reliable **Estates Assistant** to join our dedicated Estates team at **EKC Dover College**. This is your chance to play a vital role in ensuring our campus remains safe, secure, and welcoming for staff, students, and visitors.

**What you’ll do**:

- Provide essential caretaking services across the college
- Unlock and lock buildings daily, ensuring the campus is ready for operation (early and late shifts)
- Set and deactivate intruder alarms before and after operational hours (including weekends)
- Act as a responsible key holder for the college site
- Participate in our on-call rota to support any urgent site needs

**Why you’ll love working with us**:

- Be part of a friendly and supportive Estates team
- Work in a role where no two days are the same
- Make a direct impact on the smooth running and safety of our campus

If you’re dependable, take pride in your work, and enjoy being part of a hands-on team, we’d love to hear from you

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our Benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group
- **Generous Annual Leave**:

- 24 days FTE per annum, + 5 days after 5 years of service.
- **Learning and Development Opportunities**:

- 3-4 annual paid group development days, bespoke programmes e.g. Aspiring Leaders Development Programme and strong internal progression-1 in 3 roles are filled internally
- **Exclusive Discounts & Perks**:

- Inc. restaurant, grocery, retail and holidays discounts as well as car leasing and tech purchasing schemes.
- **Flexible Personal Leave**:

- Time off for your child's first day at nursery, school or college, moving homes and for interviews
- **Wellbeing** **and Health Support**:

- Generous sick pay, counselling services, discounted gym membership at Canterbury College
- **Culture and Recognition**:

- Being part of Community Days, an annual Staff Celebration Day, and an eco-friendly organisation dedicated to reaching net-zero by 2030
- **Competitive Pension Scheme** - 18% employer contribution

**About You**:
We are seeking to appoint an **enthusiastic and conscientious** member to join our team. You will be able to work independently or as part of a team, with a flexible approach to tasks and shift patterns. Strong organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure are essential.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Testing, monitoring, and maintaining Legionellosis records
- Conducting emergency lighting tests and maintaining accurate records

If you have experience in these areas, along with a passion for sharing your knowledge and expertise, this could be the ideal position for you. Whilst previous experience is an advantage, your enthusiasm and commitment are what matter most.

**Additional requirements**:

- Ideally live within 20 minutes of the campus
- Flexible and proactive approach to work
- Commitment to maintaining a safe and efficient environment for all

Ready to Apply?

**About Us**:
**Outstanding Ofsted Provider**

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

**Commitment to Safeguarding**

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

**Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.