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Estates and Facilities Assistant, Kettering

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Client:

The Bedford College Group

Location:

Kettering, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

8

Posted:

20.08.2025

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Job Description:

Role: Estates and Facilities Assistant

Location: Tresham College – Kettering Campus

Salary/Benefits: Salary is between £25,467 and £27,519 per annum DOE and Qualifications, 27 days annual leave plus Bank holidays, People’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Hours/Weeks: 40 hours per week – 52 weeks per year

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

About the role:

We are currently seeking an Estates and Facilities Assistant to join our Estates and Facilities department at The Bedford College Group.

As an Estates and Facilities Assistant, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Facilities & Security Operations – Ensure the safety and security of college premises through patrols, CCTV monitoring, alarm checks, and enforcing student conduct and ID checks.
• Maintenance & Groundskeeping – Carry out minor repairs, maintain building systems, and keep grounds clean and presentable, including seasonal tasks like snow and ice clearance.
• Support Services & Portering – Manage deliveries, room setups, recycling, and internal moves, while responding to online requests and supporting events and exams.
• Compliance & Driving Duties – Perform statutory checks (e.g. fire alarms, Legionella), manage car parks, and drive college vehicles in line with insurance and safety requirements.
• Professional Standards & Flexibility – Uphold safeguarding, equality, and health and safety policies, while being adaptable to work across campuses, weekends, and varied shifts as needed.

About you:

• Experience & Interpersonal Skills – Background in working with the public and young people, with the ability to manage a range of situations calmly and respectfully, maintaining appropriate boundaries.
• Teamwork & Initiative – Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively, contributing positively to team efforts and supporting colleagues effectively.
• Communication & Conduct – Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proactive, reliable, and punctual approach to work and issue resolution.
• Flexibility & Mobility – Willingness to work evenings, weekends, and across multiple sites, with access to a vehicle and a clean, valid driving licence.
• Values & Development – Committed to safeguarding, equality, and the College’s values of student focus, high performance, and openness, with a readiness to undertake training and develop professionally.

For a more detailed breakdown of the job role and the requirements, please see the Job Description attached to this vacancy.

Interviews to be held: 25 August 2025

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisationalVISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork – We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously – We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred – At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive – We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring – We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence – We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About The Bedford College Group
The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire:Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College andTreshamCollegein the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough;ShuttleworthCollege,a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for MotorsportalongsideSilverstonerace circuit.To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students
The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group\’s policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.

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