Maintenance Caretaker

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Maintenance Technician - SEN school in Wakefield

Contract: permanent, 40 hours per week, year-round contract including work in school holidays. Part time considered for the right candidate.

Salary: £12.15 - £13.14 per hour (£25,272 - £27,331 per annum)

Closing Date: Thursday 23rd May

This SEN school supports young people aged 11 - 19 with complex needs including autism.

They need an experienced Maintenance Technician to join the Support Services team.

The role requires emphasis on Health & Safety relevant to the premises ensuring that the building and grounds are continually fit for purpose for students and staff to enable them to fulfil their roles.

This job involves various duties to help the School Business Manager keep the property in good order, carrying out general maintenance, repairs to the building, and planned maintenance. This will require a high level of attention to detail to promote the character of the building.

Skills/Qualifications:

• General maintenance knowledge preferably with a construction trade.
• Knowledge of current Health & Safety regulations
• Understanding of hot & cold water systems
• Knowledge of good working trade practices.
• Knowledge of required safety checks fire/water/asbestos/general required within a college/school environment
• Experience of managing people
• Ability to identify work priorities and manage workloads
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Key Duties

• Carry out repairs and maintenance to a high standard in a proactive approach.
• Conduct regular inspections and ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of all areas of the school.
• Keep a record of all the day-to-day maintenance and service activities undertaken
• Comply with all corporate policies regarding Health and Safety whilst carrying out maintenance functions.
• Report defects, damages and malfunctions to the School Business Manager
• Ensure the effective completion of all tasks.
• Play a full part in building good relationships with other staff, students and stakeholders.
• Carry out regular planned maintenance inspection on services, utilities and the building fabric throughout the school report findings and take necessary actions.
• Ensure that all emergencies are dealt with speedily and effectively

Benefits:

• Training and Development

This schools group strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people they support. They offer a wide range of programmes and opportunities to all employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising they have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year they compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. They also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to this Group and they have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000

They’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.