At a Glance
- Tasks: Support the Facilities team with admin tasks, compliance checks, and contractor management.
- Company: Join Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust, a leading specialist education provider.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, pension schemes, employee discounts, and wellbeing support.
- Other info: Exciting opportunities for career progression in a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in education while growing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: GCSEs in Maths and English, plus experience in facilities and compliance.
The predicted salary is between 33983 - 33983 £ per year.
Salary: OHC&AT Business Support Scale (Outer London), Grade 4/5 (Spine Points 18-25) £30,279 - £33,983 per annum
Location: Copthall House, 9 The Pavement, Grove Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1DA
Working Pattern: 36hrs per week, 8.45am – 4.30pm (M-Th) and 8.45am – 4.15pm (Fr). Required on site 3 days per week.
Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT) is a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education. We operate across academies and college centres in London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. Supporting our academies and college, OHC&AT also operates learning support services, such as nursing and therapy, and a central business support team which includes HR, finance and IT.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs. These include autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health needs; profound and multiple learning disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health conditions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day administrative support to the Facilities team, including managing emails, calls, contractor tracking, and documentation.
- Raise, track, and send purchase orders for planned and reactive works (with support), ensuring alignment with budgets and financial regulations.
- Take meeting notes, distribute them, and follow up on actions.
- Maintain and update iAM Compliant, ensuring all required maintenance, servicing, and compliance checks are completed on time across all College and Academy sites, escalating any missing or overdue items to the Facilities Coordinator.
- Collate, verify, and store all compliance documentation (e.g., certificates, reports, service sheets), assist with maintaining accurate records and databases, analyse compliance data to identify trends or gaps, and support audit, inspection, and reporting preparation.
Key Requirements:
- Maths and English GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent.
- Experience of Facilities, Compliance.
- Knowledge of H&S regulations and legislation including COSHH and Risk Assessments.
- Knowledge of MS Office systems, intermediate level.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills.
Rewards & Benefits:
- Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle Scheme, Employee Car Lease Scheme and Home Electronics Scheme).
- Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme.
- Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more).
- Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme).
Working together to transform lives is what we do and across the whole organisation we have a range of experts and practitioners who advocate for children and young people with SEND to ensure they receive the best possible opportunities to achieve their full potential.
As a large specialist education provider we employ over 1500 people across our schools, college and central support team. There is a wide range of job roles available, ranging from teaching and therapy to business support roles and significant career progression opportunities.
It is an exciting time to be part of OHC&AT and we are keen to recruit talented people who can play a key role in realising our mission and who want to make a difference. In return, we offer training and development, competitive pay and benefits in a positive and inclusive working environment.
We are committed to promoting and advancing equality of opportunity by attracting and retaining the most diverse range of students, staff and partners.
Your application form will be scored according to each of the requirements laid out in the person specification for this role. Please demonstrate in your statement how your experience, skills and knowledge match the criteria that are required for the role.
To ensure a fair opportunity for all applicants, candidates who have applied for this position in the past 6 months will not be considered.
Closing Date: 21 August 2026
Interviews will take place week commencing 7 September 2026.
To help us manage applications effectively, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient suitable applications are received.
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