Facilities Assistant

Windmill Primary School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6LA

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  31 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  9 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £25,185.00 Annually (FTE)

Facilities Assistant job summary

The position of the Facilities Assistant is to work alongside the site manager to ensure the school is a clean and safe environment for all staff, pupils, and visitors.

Key responsibilities:

• To assist in maintaining and developing the school premises and grounds.

• To assist in making the school a clean, healthy, and safe environment for all.

• Contribute towards developing the school grounds to enhance facilities and to ensure the efficiency in their upkeep.

• Work as a member of the site management team ensuring that the school is open and staffed for all school activities.

• Contribute towards developing the school grounds to enhance facilities and to ensure efficiency in their upkeep.

• Monitor the work of contractors and report any concerns to the site manager.

• Make good or report, as appropriate, items of damage or disrepair around the school.

About You:

• Good level of maintenance skills

• An understanding of Health & Safety

• An understanding of Fire Safety

• Practical DIY skills required to repair equipment and general building maintenance.

• Experience working in a school or industrial site.

Benefits:

• Access to retail discounts and technology schemes

• Access to Cycle to Work 

• 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter. 

• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional 

• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged. 

• Discounted gym membership 

• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours - while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work 

• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes. 

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process. 

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks. 

We look forward to your response. 

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition. 

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated

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 Windmill Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 343 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Windmill Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/windmill-primary-school-nn9-6la

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