Eastern Learning Alliance - Facilities Operative Apprenticeship

ELA is an education trust where the apprentices will be based across a number of our schools and sports centres. Eastern Learning Alliance are looking for a Facilities Operative Apprentice to provide maintenance/caretaking duties, ensuring a safe, secure and clean environment. Duties will include completing works from the logbook, daily maintenance and conducting safeguarding checks. The successful candidate may be asked to support the school and welfare of the students.

Duties;

• Keeping staff and pupils safe, ensuring safeguarding of pupils is given key priority
  
• Ensuring the security of the buildings by checking the perimeter is secure and access gates are kept locked on daily basis
  
• Ensuring that fire regulations are observed and regular checks are carried out and logged including the weekly alarm test, fire extinguisher test and emergency lighting test
  
• Responding appropriately to emergency situations, or urgent issues as they arise, including maintaining oversight of health and safety issues and being a first aider; following up as necessary including recording incidents and sharing learning
  
• Maintaining the buildings including: performing repairs, minor building/decoration work, managing contracting maintenance services as needed. Completing work from the fault logbook kept on site, performing daily litter picking duties and maintaining external bins, moving furniture, stepladder checks and basic plumbing duties
  
• Ensuring that daily maintenance and housekeeping routines are consistent to allow staff to work efficiently and pupils to learn
  
• Keeping the surrounding grounds properly cared for and landscaped
  
• Conducting safeguarding checks and confirming risk assessments with contractors prior to and on arrival and check that agreed works by contractors have been completed satisfactorily, following up on any deficiencies
  
• Co-ordinating and distributing deliveries
  
• Ensuring buildings are adequately heated and that boilers are maintained and serviced as required
  
• Supporting the running of the school and welfare of the pupils where required

Training to be provided;

• Level 2 Facilities Services Operative Standard Qualification
• Functional skills Level 2 Math's and English (if required)

Qualifications;

• GCSE or equivalent English (Grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 equivalent) desirable
• GCSE or equivalent Maths (Grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 equivalent) desirable

Benefits;

• Eligible for an NUS card for discounts in shops and restaurants
• Eligible for an apprenticeship oyster card, 30% off travel
• Discount on Nandos, ASOS, Vue cinema and much more
• Earn while you learn
• No debt
• Automatic rise in pay after 12 months
• Prizes and vouchers to be won (apprentice of the month)
• Secure a job with little or no experience
• Remote learning
• Paid twice a month

Working Week;

Monday to Friday, hours to be confirmed

Total working hours;

30 hours per week

What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?

Possible progression into full-time employment for the right applicant

Things to consider;

• 5 positions available
• You should be aware that Eastern Learning Alliance is a host employer, and you will not be employed by them. Your placement may change during the course of your apprenticeship
• Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment the company completes digitalised right-to-work checks and DBS applications via an external provider - Vetting.Com. The company also completes an internal online social media search, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. Please google the location prior to applying