Estates Officer

**About the role**:
**The Role**

The Estates Officer has responsibility in ensuring the site of competence is safe, comfortable and secure at all time, delivering all required estates and facilities services. The role requires the undertaking of all relevant activities and reactive maintenance to deliver estates functions in line with our SLA standards, targets and frequencies, ensuring accessibility and welfare at all time. This includes activities to achieve full Estates Statutory Compliance such as in-house and outsourced preventative planned maintenance functions.

The site of competence is Nido Volans Lambeth Campus, located in Norwood.

**Skills and Experience**
You will have experience of boilers and other plant room equipment coupled with knowledge of electrical circuits and distribution systems. You will be skilled in decorating, carpentry and plumbing repairs and maintenance, and have the ability to work in accordance with the College's health and safety procedures. You will have good literacy and numeracy skills and are able communicate in a calm and professional manner with students, staff and visitors at all level. You will have a Health and Safety UK recognised qualification and/or be willing to complete this as part of your professional development within the probation period.

**About Us**:
**The College**

**London South East Colleges (LSEC)** is a leading further and higher education provider, with seven campuses across Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and Lambeth and c1000 staff. The College delivers a wide range of vocational courses, apprenticeships and degree programmes to over 13,000 students, designed to meet employer and industry needs.

**Committed to transforming lives through the power of learning,** the College plays a vital role in promoting social mobility, creating opportunities for learners of all backgrounds to achieve their potential. With state-of-the-art facilities and strong partnerships with employers and universities, the college equips students with the skills, confidence and opportunities needed for success in their careers and their lives.

As part of London & South East Education Group, the College is also the sponsor of **London South East Academies Trust**. This growing and successful Multi-Academy Trust currently has a network of 13 mainstream, special and alternative provision schools across Bromley, Bexley, Surrey and Lambeth.

The Group has also recently launched a charity - the LASER Education Foundation. This organisation supports disadvantaged children and their families across the region, through a wide range of educational programmes and initiatives.

With a combined turnover of c£100m, the Group has ambitious growth plans. There has never been a better time to join this exciting organisation - and really make a different to people’s lives.

**Benefits**
Our benefits package includes annual leave of 27 days (excluding bank holidays) plus a further three days over the Christmas break. We provide up to two more additional College closure days throughout the year, and also offer leave for volunteering.

Excellent pension schemes are offered, including employer contributions (Teachers’ Pension Scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme or Nest). Other benefits include:

- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Free onsite parking
- Cycle to work/bike loan scheme
- Annual season ticket loan
- Access to the 'Discounts for Teachers' portal
- Free Wifi access in over 10,000 locations worldwide Eduroam
- Access to our onsite gym at Bromley, discounts in our in-house restaurants and on our hair and beauty treatments

**Accreditations**

As employers, we recognise and embrace our legal and quality-assurance framework responsibilities. We use these frameworks, as well as other accreditations and schemes, to further develop our development and progress of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

We acknowledge that there is always more that we can learn and use these accreditations to provide us with an external lens and share/gain best-practice information.

**Equal Opportunities**

As a Disability Confident-Committed employer, we will offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum job role criteria.