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Maintenance Technician

St Thomas More Catholic School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 7UL

This job expired on 31 October 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  31 October 2023 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 July 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,968.00 - £22,369.00 Annually (FTE)

Maintenance Technician job summary

Ideally you will be an experienced and practical, hands-on trades person confident with a good working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, or other trades but the Trust will provide full training and an opportunity to gain accreditation/qualifications in specific trades where required.

You should thrive working part of a team, have pride in your own work with high standards and be keen to obtain the best learning environment for our pupils with limited resources. The role will involve travel between school sites on a regular basis.

You would be joining a nurturing and caring working environment underpinned by a Catholic ethos and educational focus, whose aim is for every pupil to leave with a strong moral purpose, high aspirations, and immense pride in what they have achieved during their time in our schools. 

Purpose:

To be part of a Trust Maintenance team responsible for improving, maintaining and managing schools’ sites including the buildings, grounds fixtures and fittings.  Act as first line of contact between the Heads and Trust Maintenance Manager in relation to site issues and schools’ health and safety, being allocated tasks across a group of schools within a geographical area.  

Key Responsibilities:

Completing tasks to maintain all school site buildings and grounds ensuring all internal and external areas are fit for purpose, safe, well maintained and secure.  Undertake semi-skilled repairs and maintenance tasks as allocated, reporting ay faults and damage to School Operations Coordinator and Trust Maintenance Manager. Maintain all furniture, fittings & equipment and, high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across the site.   As instructed by the Trust Operations team ensuring adherence and compliance with all statutory and centralised Trust requirements including health and safety, risk assessments, planned maintenance works and efficient provision of utilities and energy.

This job description may be amended at any time, following consultation between the employee and the Headteacher and will be reviewed annually.

Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and the school reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.  Applicants are therefore encouraged to apply early.

St Thomas More is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment and selection process in line with this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

Commitment to safeguarding

St Thomas More is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment and selection process in line with this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

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About St Thomas More Catholic School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 944 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St Thomas More Catholic School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-thomas-more-catholic-school-bedford (opens in new tab)

St Thomas More Secondary School is a successful, oversubscribed 11-18 Catholic school, which is part of the Bedford group of OLICAT Schools (Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Academies Trust). St Thomas More is a specialist school in humanities and leadership and also a teaching school. Our last Ofsted inspection, in January 2011, judged St Thomas More to be an outstanding school. Our highly motivated, professional and friendly staff continue to secure higher levels of learning and examination success. 

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