Advert Details
Job Title: Facilities Manager Reference No(s): 0000000229
Salary: £26,535.94 - £32,432.78 (point 26-32)* Location: Headington, Oxfordshire
Hours of Work: 38 hours p/w, 52 weeks per year Closing Date: 7th June 2024
Interview Date: TBC Start Date: ASAP
Be part of a team that is passionate and committed to making a positive difference to the lives of the pupils and their facilities.
MacIntyre Academies Trust opened its first academy, in Headington, Oxford in September 2014. Endeavour Academy is a specialist Academy providing support for children and young people with autism and associated Severe Learning Difficulties aged from 8 to 19 years old.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for a commercially focused Facilities Manager to join this exciting school, this is a really exciting opportunity to be part of something very special.
Reporting to our Business Manager, you will have overall responsibility for maintaining a high standard of Health and Safety, maintenance, cleaning, security and ground maintenance across Endeavour Academy site, both internally in the school and house, and externally, including the school vehicles.
You will work with the Business Manager to develop schedules of maintenance work to be carried out and agree budgets and negotiate preferred rates with contractors ensuring safety and high quality maintenance of all buildings and their contents.
You will line manage a Facilities Assistant for the site and have support from the Housekeeper/Facilities Assistant at Endeavour House. Additional support will be provided from the Academy Trust Facilities Manager and Health & Safety Committee.
About You
You will ideally be undertaking a similar role with experience of facilities management either in the private and public sector to include demonstrative experience of building maintenance and repairs. You will have the relevant knowledge of regulatory bodies relating to facilities and the associated health and safety to include writing Risk Assessments. You will be an effective communicator both written and verbal and in turn be a confident negotiator. We need someone who will have a commitment to ensuring that all work that is carried out is undertaken to a very high standard.
You will also need to be able to work on your own initiative, able to prioritise your workload effectively. You need to be sensitive to the needs of children and young people with learning disabilities and have an attitude towards others based on respect, dignity and equality.
Benefits
· Cycle to Work Scheme upon successful completion of probation period
· Pension scheme with generous employer contributions
· Access to the Employee Assistance Programme to support health and wellbeing
· The support of a trained line manager and dedicated senior leaders
· Investment into your personal development including annual appraisal and training opportunities
· Trust-wide engagement activities throughout the year
· Wellbeing initiatives in your setting
· MAT Life Day
· Free flu jabs
· Full induction
· Whole Trust CPD day
· Enhanced Sick Pay Policy
· You are awesome awards
· Whole trust CPD day
· Big Thank You day
Safeguarding
MacIntyre Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions will require an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and registration with the DBS Update Service together with all other relevant recruitment checks including obtaining references. This post includes engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide: DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Referees will be asked to assess suitability of candidates to work with vulnerable adults, children or young people and will be verbally verified. Individual Safeguarding Policies for our Academies can be found on our website under ‘Essential Information’ and candidates will be asked about this as part of the recruitment process.
In line with the update to KSCIE 2022 MacIntyre Academies will carry out an online search of the candidate once the shortlisting process has been completed as part of their due diligence. This may involve a google search of the candidate’s name, looking at the top three search results over the past three years. If any incidents or issues are identified that are publicly available online this will be explored with the candidate at interview stage.