Facilities Assistant at Olive AP Academy - Havering
Position Start Date: Immediate
Contract Type: Full-time
Contract Term: Permanent
Application Close: 28/02/2025 Midday
Date of Interviews: Wednesday 5 March 2025
We are looking for a highly-efficient and experienced Facilities Assistant who will keep our academies clean and safe and maintain a positive working and learning environment for our staff, students and visitors, ensuring good maintenance and management of our academy buildings and grounds. In addition, you will be expected to contribute to planning the management and development of the premises with the Head of Academy and the trust's central team. Responsibilities include:
1. Ensuring the security of the buildings by checking the perimeter is secure and access gates are kept locked on a daily basis.
2. Ensuring that fire regulations are observed and regular checks are carried out and logged including the weekly alarm test, fire extinguisher test and emergency lighting test.
3. Managing health and safety compliance ensuring the site remains a safe environment at all times.
4. Responding appropriately to emergency situations, or urgent issues as they arise, including maintaining oversight of health and safety issues and being a first aider; following up as necessary including recording incidents and sharing learning.
5. Maintenance of the buildings including performing repairs, minor building/decoration work, managing contracting maintenance services as needed. Completing work from the fault logbook, performing daily litter picking duties and maintaining external bins, moving furniture, stepladder checks and basic plumbing duties.
6. Ensuring that daily maintenance and housekeeping routines are consistent to allow staff to work efficiently and pupils to learn.
7. Overseeing and managing effective cleaning services at the academy.
8. Keeping the surrounding grounds properly cared for and landscaped.
9. Conducting safeguarding checks and confirming risk assessments with contractors prior to and on arrival and checking that agreed works by contractors have been completed satisfactorily, following up on any deficiencies.
10. Co-ordinating and distributing deliveries.
11. Ensuring buildings are adequately heated and that boilers are maintained and serviced as required.
12. Supporting the running of the academy and welfare of the pupils where required, for example, driving the minibus.
13. Supporting with young people (where skills allow) to better enhance their life experiences.
Salary: NJC - Scale 6, point 18-22 (Outer London Area)
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Closing time and date: 9am Friday 28th February 2025
How to apply: The job pack, application form and details of how to apply can be found on our website: oliveacademies.org.uk/facilities-assistant. Please send your completed application form to Lisa Jobson, Office Manager: lisa.jobson@oliveacademies.org.uk.
All contractors, volunteers or agency staff will be required to complete an OA application form which will be made available upon request.
Information about the School
Based in the heart of Thurrock, our academy specialises in alternative provision and supporting the social and emotional educational needs of young people. Olive AP Academy - Thurrock supports up to 94 pupils for whom traditional teaching methods have not worked. Students, ranging in age from 11 to 16, join us following permanent exclusion from a mainstream school or due to having medical needs that prevent them from attending a mainstream setting. Our academy is a nurturing, inclusive community where students are able to grow and develop. We strive to ensure success for all our learners academically, socially and morally. We build a curriculum around the needs of our students and are proud that our Year 11 students leave with qualifications on par with their mainstream peers and transition into education, training or employment. Having a working beauty salon, kitchen and hospitality area, construction area, science laboratory and fitness suite onsite allows for a hands-on approach to the curriculum and the development of transferable skills for the future. Alongside our ever-growing curriculum, we offer our students additional qualifications in non-traditional subjects such as sailing, climbing, extreme mountain biking, bushcraft and first aid. All students receive therapeutic support and this can range from a set or personalised programme, counselling, speech and language intervention or small group activities around self-worth and wellbeing. We pride ourselves on encouraging positive mental health and wellbeing and are pleased to have received a National Wellbeing Award, which acknowledges the support we provide for staff, students and families. Working in alternative provision can be challenging, but joining the Olive family is one of the most rewarding and positive career developments you will make. If you have the experience and enthusiasm to support us on our journey, I would love to hear from you. Thank you for your interest.
Collette Hunnisett
Executive Headteacher
All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.
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