Facilities Assistant

**Details**: **Reference number**: - 227066**Salary**: - £22,960 - £27,012**Grade**: - Other**Contract type**: - Permanent**Type of role**: - Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**: - Flexible working, Full-time**Number of posts**: - 1Contents Location About the job **Benefits**: Things you need to know Location - Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EHAbout the job **Summary**: - Working within an enthusiastic and friendly team, the facilities assistant will play a critical role in supporting the efficient running of the Homes England office estate. - The facilities team are committed to delivering a first-class customer service, resolving issues informally wherever possible, and taking an innovative and creative approach to new ways of working. The team values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.**Job description**: - This is a rare chance to shape the future estate in a national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective service. - The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects nationally. There are some exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the future office estate.**Responsibilities**: - Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate. - You'll be comfortable supporting our staff with complex issues, aiming to consistently deliver excellent customer service. - Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade. - As an experienced facilities professional you’ll be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.**Benefits**: - Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include: - Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays. - Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours. - Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health. - Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees. - We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.Things you need to know **Security**: - People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**: - Things you need to know - How to apply?- Security- Selection process details - For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.- Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:Nationality requirements- Working for the Civil Service - Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.- Further information - Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. - Contact point for applicants - Job contact: - Name: Recruitment Team- Recruitment team: - Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**: This job is broadly open to the following groups: - UK nationals - nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK - nationals of the Republic of Ireland - relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service - relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service - certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA