Facilities Assistant
Endeavour Academy, Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8DDThis job expired on 20 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full Time – 38 hours, all year round
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,678.30 - £22,998.15
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Title: Facilities Assistant Reference No(s): EA FA 0924
Salary: £21,678.30 - £22,998.15 Location: Headington, Oxfordshire
Hours of work: Full Time – 38 hours, all year round
Start Date: ASAP Interview Date: TBC
About Us
MacIntyre Academies Trust opened its first academy, in Headington, Oxford in September 2014. Endeavour Academy is a new and exciting Academy School for children and young people with autism and associated severe Learning Difficulties aged from 8 to 19 years old.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for a Facilities Assistant/Handyperson to join this new and exciting Academy and Children’s Home.
Reporting to the Facilities Manager you will be responsible for supporting in the upkeep of Endeavour Academy School and Children’s Home (Endeavour House), with specific responsibilities for general maintenance, site security and cleaning.
You will need to have awareness of health and safety and cleanliness of workplace, handling and use of hazardous materials experience (COSHH), manual handling experience and experience of carrying out general unskilled maintenance.
Previous experience of working within a school and holding an Apprenticeship, NVQ or equivalent in cleaning or any other relevant trade would also be desirable.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits
In return, we can offer you: · A competitive salary · A local government pension scheme · Family friendly policies · Wellbeing, Bereavement and Menopause Policies · An Employee Assistance Programme to support your health and wellbeing and access to various perks including discounts including Tesco, Cineworld, Go Ape and many more · Annual flu jabs · Cycle to work scheme · Access to further professional development through the Trust’s Leadership Programmes · Training and Development · Access to Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff · Driving training MPV minibus Awareness Course · Death in Service · Enhanced DBS Certificate (paid for by MacIntyre Academies) We also have an active employee engagement programme which includes termly ‘You Are Awesome’ awards, an annual Big Thank You Day and a Trust Wide Annual Conference.
Safeguarding
MacIntyre Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions will require an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and registration with the DBS Update Service together with all other relevant recruitment checks including obtaining references. This post includes engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide: DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Referees will be asked to assess suitability of candidates to work with vulnerable adults, children or young people and will be verbally verified. Individual Safeguarding Policies for our Academies can be found on our website under ‘Essential Information’ and candidates will be asked about this as part of the recruitment process.
In line with the update to KSCIE 2023 MacIntyre Academies will carry out an online search of the candidate once the shortlisting process has been completed as part of their due diligence. This may involve a google search of the candidate’s name, looking at the top three search results over the past three years. If any incidents or issues are identified that are publicly available online this will be explored with the candidate at interview stage.
*Salaries are based on Full-Time-Equivalent and are pro-rata for part time roles. Salaries are dependent on experience with option of additional hours through the extended school provision.
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.
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About Endeavour Academy, Oxford
- School type
- Academy, ages 8 to 19
- School size
- 30 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 8 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Endeavour Academy, Oxford website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@macintyreacademies.org
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