Facilities Assistant
Lynn Grove Academy, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 8AP13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours, 52 weeks – Monday-Thursday 2pm-10pm and Friday 2pm-9:30pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale D, sp 5-6 £25,583 - £25,989
What skills and experience we're looking for
About You:
As a Facilities Assistant, you’ll be a reliable and proactive team member with a strong commitment to creating a safe, clean, and well-maintained environment for our students and staff. You’ll bring excellent attention to detail and a practical, hands-on approach to your work, helping to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the school.
Our Ideal candidate will have:
- Experience in facilities or maintenance, with a practical mindset and readiness to handle routine tasks and minor repairs.
- A solid understanding of workplace health and safety, backed by practical experience applying it in a facilities or maintenance setting.
- Confidence in managing a wide range of duties, with the flexibility to adapt to varied tasks and schedules.
What the school offers its staff
About the Estates and Facilities Team:
The Estates and Facilities team at Creative Education Trust is committed to creating safe, efficient, and inspiring environments for students and staff across our schools. We oversee capital investments, planned and preventative maintenance, and essential contracted services such as cleaning and catering, ensuring the functionality and presentation of our buildings and grounds.
Collaboration is at the heart of our approach - we work closely with other departments, school leaders, and site staff to ensure compliance, uphold health and safety standards, and effectively manage asset investments, condition improvements, and capital projects. Our goal is to maintain well-designed, welcoming spaces that foster teaching, learning, and overall well-being.
About Lynn Grove Academy:
Kindness, resilience, and a love of learning are at the heart of our culture. At Lynn Grove Academy, we don’t just educate - we nurture a community where every individual is encouraged to grow, persevere, and become the best version of themselves. We embrace challenges together and support one another with compassion and purpose.
Learning is our core focus. Our dedicated teaching staff continually refine their practice to deliver high-quality education that inspires curiosity and resilience. We encourage academic ambition and nurture a culture of perseverance and self-belief.
Beyond the classroom, we offer a rich and varied school experience. Our outstanding pastoral care ensures every student is known and cared for as an individual. To find out more please visit our website.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust is a growing network of 17 schools, educating over 13,500 children and young people across England. Since 2010, we’ve worked in partnership with communities to deliver an education that inspires ambition, promotes equity, and unlocks opportunity for every learner.
We believe every child has talent, every community has strength, and every school can be a place where excellence thrives. Our curriculum is rich, broad, and inclusive - designed to build knowledge, nurture creativity, and prepare students for the future.
We are united by a shared purpose: to transform lives through education. Our schools are places where students feel safe, supported, and empowered to lead their own lives with confidence. Through collaboration, high expectations, and purposeful leadership, we ensure that success is both expected and achieved - together.
Visit our Trust website to explore how we support our staff and discover more about our mission, values, and opportunities.
Ready to Join Us?
Submit your application directly through our website. We warmly welcome visits to our school, and if you'd like to arrange a visit or confidential conversation with the Line Manager, our friendly HR/Recruitment team is here to help. Reach out to us at NorfolkHR@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk, and we'll be delighted to assist you.
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, separate Barred List Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
Further information about the job
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
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About Lynn Grove Academy
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1109 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lynn Grove Academy website
- Email address
- tierney.webb@lynngroveacademy.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Lynn Grove Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tierney.webb@lynngroveacademy.org.uk.
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