Level 2 Facilities Service Operative Apprenticeship - Harlow Fields School & College
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Location
Harlow, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
What you will do in your working day
About the Placement (Host):
Harlow Fields is a very successful special needs school & college providing for children and young people between the ages of 3 to 19 with Severe and Complex Learning Difficulties.
Key responsibilities:
1. Health & Safety
- Ensure all caretaking equipment is in a safe and working condition and report any issues to the site manager.
- Ensure all caretaking equipment is safely and securely stored.
- Assist the site manager in undertaking scheduled safety checks / risk assessments including pool maintenance and minibus checks.
2. Security and Supervision
- To act as a key holder, carrying out security procedures for the buildings and grounds. The routine and non-routine opening of premises and grounds. Responding to calls outside normal working hours as a result of break-ins etc. and or/the setting off of the burglar alarm(s).
- Providing access, where possible, to the premises and classrooms in the event of snow or minor flooding or similar emergency situations.
3. Caretaking and maintenance
- Undertaking cleaning of allocated area(s), and secondary cleaning.
- Washing internal walls e.g. classrooms, corridors, including cleaning at a high level where appropriate safety equipment is available and a safe system of work has been defined in accordance with Health and Safety requirements.
- Window cleaning, including cleaning at a high level where appropriate safety equipment is available and a safe system of work has been defined in accordance with Health and Safety requirements.
- Monitoring the standards of cleanliness of the premises and furnishings and reporting any deficiencies to the Headteacher
- Drawing the attention of the appropriate authorities via the Headteacher to any repairs or maintenance work required at the premises which is beyond the competence of the caretaking staff.
4. General repairs and maintenance in-line with the delegation of duties from the site management team, such as:
- Ensuring that all areas within the site are free from litter and that all drains and gullies are free-flowing and clean.
- Taking delivery of stores, materials and other goods and conveying them to their points of distribution. Dispatching laundry, goods, materials etc.
- Ensuring that adequate supplies of cleaning materials and other supplies are available.
- Operating the heating plant so that the required temperatures are maintained in the premises and an adequate supply of hot water is available.
- Carrying out frost precaution procedures
5. Carrying out first line repairs and maintenance which are not beyond the scope and capability of the postholder including:
- Plumbing work – e.g. repairing a leaking pipe, simple installation work, such as plumbing in a new tap, or replacing washer etc
- Redecoration as appropriate
- Plastering work such as repairing cracked or broken plaster, making good damaged walls for example, following the removal of say, shelving or similar fittings;
- Fencing and boundary repairs, e.g. mending broken fencing panels or stakes, repairing holes in chain link fences etc;
- Glazing work, such as replacing smaller windows, re-beading or re-puttying glass panes, internal and external.
Note: Specialist contractors would be used for repairs to large window panes or double glazed units or windows at a high level;
The training you will be getting
- You will be studying the level 2 Facilities Service Operative Apprenticeship with TSP Learn.
- Level 2 Facilities Services Principles
What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship
- Future opportunities for career progression
Job tags
Salary
£9.61k per annum
