Facilities Assistant at St Peter's School 2-18

• About this Role
• Facilities Assistant Job Description
• Department -
• Estates
• Responsible To -
• Head of Facilities and Transport
• Salary
• £14.79 per hour (Point 4 on St Peter's Support Scale)

Hours of work

Possibility of both fixed part-time hours or ad-hocand when the school requires extra staffing.

Werun two shift patterns covering the hours below: Early Shift Late Shift Monday to Friday6.00am - 2.30pm2.30pm - 11.00pm Saturday6.00am - 2.00pm2.00pm-10.00pm Sunday7.00am -2.30pm2.30pm -10.00pm Yourrota will be agreed to a minimum of two weeks in advance or longer if on fixedpart-time hours, however some flexibility will be required in order to coverunforeseen absences.

Please note thatthe rota operates for 365 days per year, including bank holidays.

Overall Purpose of the Post

Toprovide a responsive, efficient and professional support service to the Schoolincluding porterage and ensuring the safety and security of the School'spupils, staff, visitors, property, premises and facilities.

Thenature of the role is such that an exhaustive list of duties is not possible.

On any given day a Facilities Assistant may be required to transport materials, paint a wall, sweep paths, drive the minibus, unload a delivery of furniture, conduct the daily parking checks and deal appropriately with a possibletrespasser.

Thisis a very public role which, combined with the fact that Facilities Assistantsare often the people with full responsibility for the site, makes it animportant role for the School.

Key Responsibilities

• To undertake porterage andcaretaking duties including the setting up and clearing of rooms in preparationfor meetings, lessons, exams and functions.
• To conduct daily collection anddelivery of laundry.
• To drive the school vehicles, including the minibuses. On occasions this may involve transporting pupils toand from school.
• To act as fire wardens in theevent of an alarm
• To be the School's representative, ensuring excellent customer service at all times to pupils, parents, staff andvisitors.
• To conduct the collection anddelivery of internal and external mail.
• To respond quickly to cleaningrequirements that fall outside of normal cleaner hours such as functions.
• To ensure that the school'svehicle fleet is safe and secure by conducting the regular checks.
• To understand and comply with thehealth and safety requirements of the role (for which training will be given).

This may include the use of personal, protective equipment and adherence tosafety rules and assessments.

• To unlock and/or secure allbuildings, and report any defective locks, security lights and other aspects ofthe school's property and premises that may require repair or maintenance.
• To undertake general maintenancework as requested. This may include painting, minor joinery, plumbing andelectrical tasks.
• To undertake clearing of pathsetc. during periods of bad weather (e. g. snow, ice etc.).
• To regularly patrol the schoolsite ensuring security is maintained, including perimeter gates and fences.
• To record any incidents orbreaches of security, incidents of injury or damage to property to the Head of Facilities & Transport.
• To respond to intruder and firealarms, taking appropriate action as required, including the summoning ofemergency services.
• To test fire alarms on a regular basis throughout the school, including the boarding houses, pool and otherancillary buildings, keeping accurate logs and reporting any faults.
• To provide a friendly andefficient enquiry service for pupils, parents and visitors to the Schoolensuring those that need to sign in, in the appropriate log book.
• General
• Health & Safety - You havea legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that ofothers and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter's School's Health and Safety policy.
• School values - You have a dutyto ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school's corevalues and mission.

You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, thoserelating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter's School strives to be diverse and inclusive.

We encourageapplications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnicbackground, who are underrepresented at the school.

The school is committed toproviding equal opportunity to all employees and pupils.

This means thatemployees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnicorigin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason.

Thepost holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law andthe St Peter's policies on equality and diversity.

The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusivecommunity - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensivelist of duties and responsibilities associated with the post.

The post holderwill be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of asimilar level that is not specified in this job description.

This job description may be amended at any time.

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