LFE Assistant (x2 posts)

Landau Forte College, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 2LF

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Dependant on experience

LFE Assistant (x2 posts) job summary

Our opportunity for you

We are looking for two versatile and outgoing individuals to join the College as a LFE Assistants to support our community hire and lettings activities outside of college hours.

The type of person we are looking for is likely to possess infectious enthusiasm, a reliable and highly organised individual, who can multi-task, with a professional and friendly disposition. He or she will be resilient, driven, determined, and ambitious.

This post is based at Landau Forte College, Derby and will report directly to the LFE Operations Manager.

Key information

Start date: ASAP

Contract: 20 hours per week

Salary: Dependant on experience

Closing Date: 18 May 2025

What we can offer you

A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment

Career prospects within an innovative and ambitious Multi Academy Trust

Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

Healthcare Cash Plan, from Vitality Health

Person specification

The person we are looking for should have experience in the following areas:

• Worked within the hospitality industry and have excellent customer service skills
• Experience in a facilities or building maintenance environment
• A good multi tasker and logical thinker

We are also looking for someone with the following skills and abilities:

• Able to work on his or her own initiative, be reliable and trustworthy
• Able to work successfully as part of a highly effective team

• Excellent personal organisational skills and be a proactive, forward thinker
• Excellent time management skills
• Willingness to work unsociable hours to support the College facilities lettings business
• Excellent communication skills and confident working in a busy, demanding environment

Job description

Duties for this job will include (but are not limited to):

Meet and greet customers and facilitate the smooth running of external hires.

Clearing and setting up of rooms

Closing and securing the College including activation and deactivation of alarms

• Be the initial point of contact for all enquiries in person
• Maintain a tidy and orderly work area
• Be responsible for all bookings during your working shift, ensuring the college is set correctly.
• Working on the bar/tuck shop while its open
• Carry out responsibilities with due regard to the Academy’s policy, organisation and arrangements for Health & Safety at work.
• Adding and amending bookings and taking and adding payments.

Any other appropriate duties and responsibilities relevant to the post as directed by the Chief Executive Officer, Principal, Vice Principals or Assistant Principals.

Landau Forte College Derby

Landau Forte Charitable Trust is a family of six Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form Academies across the Midlands. Established in 1989, our roots as a charity lie in the global finance and hospitality industries, with our founders Martin Landau and Rocco Forte. Their values combine in how our schools look after their children and young people; they aspire to a world-leading standard of innovation, entrepreneurship, service and care.

We believe a brilliant education should be central to the development of every child and young person. Their learning, wellbeing and happiness is at the centre of every decision we take and every pound we spend.

The local area

Derby is a vibrant and exciting city, located right in the heart of the UK. The city has a developed arts and culture scene and the area has a great history. The school is located just a few minutes’ walk away from Derby city centre.

Derby provides great range of sports and leisure facilities and is the gateway to the Peak District. Within a 10 minutes’ drive of the city you will find yourself in the beautiful open Derbyshire countryside with unspoilt villages, historic houses and adventurous attractions.

Derby is 10 minutes away from M1 junction 25

London is 90 minutes away by train

East Midlands Airport is 20 minutes away

Apply for this job

Complete the application form online

Visit www.lfct.org.uk/careers

All appointments made are subject to satisfactory references and a criminal background check. Landau Forte Charitable Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for this post.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV.UK.

The Trust will conduct all necessary searches and checks as relevant and in line with Government Safer Recruitment guidelines, our Safer Recruitment policy can be found on our website at www.lfct.org.uk

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Landau Forte College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1240 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Landau Forte College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/landau-forte-college-derby

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic non-teacher to work across year 7. Alongside the Heads of Year, the successful candidates will play a key role in the progress and achievement of all students. The main role of the Deputy Head of Year is to work collaboratively with and in support of Heads of Year, Senior Leaders and the Student Support Team to provide comprehensive care, support and guidance for students in Year groups in order to ensure they meet the school’s high expectations of attitudes to learning, behaviour and attainment.

The type of people we are looking for are likely to possess infectious enthusiasm, a reliable and highly organised individual, who can multi-task, with a professional and friendly disposition. They will be resilient, driven, determined, and ambitious.

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a leading educational organisation at the cutting edge of educational development.

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