Estate & Facilities Assistant

Little Parndon Primary Academy, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1PU

33 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  28 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,183.00 - £27,269.00 Annually (Actual) £705 outer fringe allowance

Estate & Facilities Assistant job summary

At Little Parndon, we have many minds but one mission: to shape futures through education.

Our vision is to empower students through equity, to acquire, demonstrate, articulate and value knowledge and skills to shape their future. To go on to participate in and contribute to the global world and practise the core values of the school: Respect, Resilience and Responsibility.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Estates and Facilities Assistant plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the Teaching & Learning environment. This includes maintaining the premises, facilities, equipment, and safety standards to a consistently high level.

This role involves maintaining a safe, clean, and well-functioning environment by carrying out general maintenance tasks, supporting room setups, and ensuring health and safety standards are upheld. The ideal candidate will have a hands-on approach, good communication skills, and a strong commitment to providing high-quality facilities support across the site.

The post holder will act as a positive and proactive link between the Estates team, school senior leadership, and the wider estate management team. For full responsibilities, please refer to the job description.

The successful candidate will be expected to liaise effectively with all Academy staff, as well as colleagues from across the Trust who may be working on site.

What can BMAT offer you?
BMAT provides a range of benefits to support your personal and professional well-being:

• Enhanced and flexible PPA
• Generous employer pension contribution through Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme
• Private healthcare benefits, including 24/7 Doctorline access
• Home and electronic salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work
• Discounted Gym membership through salary sacrifice
• Lifestyle and discount savings
• Workplace nursery fee salary sacrifice scheme via Yellownest
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early should a suitable candidate be identified. Interviews may be conducted while the advert is live.

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Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Little Parndon Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 361 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Little Parndon Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/little-parndon-primary-academy

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