At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure facilities are safe, clean, and well-maintained while supporting colleagues and visitors.
- Company: Historic England, dedicated to preserving England's historic environment.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, wellness programmes, remote work options, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working arrangements available, including job sharing and hybrid options.
- Why this job: Join a team that values diversity and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
- Qualifications: Customer service experience and teamwork skills; training in safety protocols is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 25179 - 25179 £ per year.
Location: On site, York, UK
Salary: £25,179 (GBP) Pro-rata, plus generous benefits
Team: Corporate Services - Facilities Management
Seniority: Junior
Closing: 11:59pm, 9th Aug 2026 BST
Perks and benefits:
- Work from home option
- Wellness programs
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Additional parental leave
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Paid emergency leave
- Sabbatical Opportunities
- Mentoring/coaching
- Payroll giving
- Salary sacrifice
- Team social events
- Team lunches
- Extracurricular clubs
- Cycle to work scheme
Candidate happiness: 8.00 (11122)
Job Description Summary:
We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Facilities Assistant. This is a fixed term contract for 12 months, 18 hours per week, based in our York office. We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
What you will be doing:
As our facilities assistant, you will ensure day to day facilities management services are delivered on site and that facilities are safe, clean, well-stocked, suitably maintained, well presented and comfortable at all times. You will act as the first point of contact for colleagues, tenants and visitors on site, and monitor performance standards of key contractors. You will also proactively resolve issues for colleagues and resolve problems appropriately.
Who we are looking for:
- Experience of managing day-to-day communications with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Experience of working in a customer facing role
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Experience of (or willingness to undertake training in) First Aid, Fire Warden, Contractor Management, Asbestos Awareness, Health and Safety, Electrical safety, Risk Assessments
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can. We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working.
Why work for Historic England:
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use of AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration - not as direct input.
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