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Casual Lettings Caretaker

Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BX

This job expired on 28 July 2024 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 August 2024

• Closing date

  28 July 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Casual Contract
• Contract type: Fixed term - 6 Months
• Actual salary: £12.50 PER HOUR

What skills and experience we're looking for

About us and the role

We are looking for a reliable and enthusiastic Lettings Caretaker to liaise with clients, delivering a professional and enjoyable leisure experience. The role will cover two of the Trust's schools, based in Leicester.

The Lettings Caretaker will report to the Head of Business Services and will be responsible for holding keys to the Trust, opening and closing the facilities, and managing bookings and equipment.

An ideal candidate will be passionate about delivering excellent customer service and delivering solutions to problems that may arise during bookings and available to work evenings and weekends.

The number of working hours may also increase or decrease depending on the amount of use taking place at the Trust during community lettings periods. All duties and responsibilities are subject to review.

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

What will you do?

• Holding keys to the premises.
• Opening the premises before scheduled bookings and ensuring safe closure of the venue at the end of a scheduled booking.
• Maintaining equipment.
• Ensuring facilities are clean, tidy and presentable before any bookings.
• Checking the facilities after any bookings to ensure they have been left at the expected standard and resolving any issues.
• Providing First Aid equipment in the event of an accident.
• Delivering excellent customer service at all times.
• Resolving customer queries or complaints.
• Ensure you are compliant with the academies policies.
• Other duties within the competence of the post holder, as may be reasonably required by the company.
• The successful candidate will be expected to be in sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School, following closely the expected behaviours laid out in the Ethos Handbook.

For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description

What are we looking for?

• Experience working in a customer focussed environment
• A thorough practically based understanding of premises maintenance issues
• An understanding of health, safety and security issues and relevant legislation affecting schools
• Be willing to work on a shift/rotational basis which includes weekends
• An ability to establish good working relationships

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.

What the school offers its staff

Why should you apply?

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
• NEST pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
• Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes

Further details about the role

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Commitment to safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

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About Avanti Fields School

• School type: Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1086 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Avanti Fields School website
• Email address: Careers@avanti.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/avanti-fields-school

Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding.

Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust.

Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children.

Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils.

Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths.

Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.

Arranging a visit to Avanti Fields School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Careers@avanti.org.uk.

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