Maintenance Assistant

There is no better time to start a career within our maintenance team than now! Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career? If you would like to build a career that gives you a genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!

Sheridan School are recruiting for a Maintenance Assistant to join their maintenance team. We are looking for a passionate handyperson and an enthusiastic DIYer, who will carry out reactive day-to-day maintenance issues within the site and their grounds. You will also assist in supporting our other homes in the community, liaising with contractors when on site and ad-hoc requests from management as necessary.

Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!

Sheridan School offers an integrated programme of education and therapy for young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties, compounded by complex disorders including Autism. Age range for students is from year 4 to year 11 and the school is comprised of Primary, Secondary and ASD provisions.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

• Carry out reactive day-to-day maintenance issues within the site and grounds.
• Support other homes in the community, liaising with contractors when on site and ad-hoc requests from management as necessary.
• Assist in implementing maintenance checks and routine tasks as required.

• Ideally, you will have experience of general labouring skills and handyperson work.
• Communication – you may interact with young people who may display varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and related needs.
• Organisation – confident and organized in record keeping, ensuring issues are logged on internal computer systems and up to date with routine maintenance checks.
• Attentive – able to understand different jobs and identify where we can provide support.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most. If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.