Estates Assistant

Ashford College; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 5,000 - 6,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Personal leave

Discounts

Wellbeing support

Pension scheme

Job summary

East Kent Colleges Group is seeking an Estates Assistant at our Folkestone site. You’ll be responsible for securing buildings, managing alarms, and supporting a range of caretaking duties to keep the campus safe and welcoming.

The role includes on-call shifts, routine checks of fire alarms and emergency lighting, and collaboration with contractors. A proactive, reliable approach and local commuting distance are important.

Qualifications

• Flexible and adaptable to shift patterns.
• Good organisational skills to keep operations running smoothly.
• Experience with monitoring fire alarm and emergency lighting systems; knowledge of Legionella preferred.

Responsibilities

• Unlock/lock buildings as a key holder and participate in on-call rota.
• Set/unset intruder alarms and perform regular fire and emergency lighting checks.
• Check core infrastructure and equipment in a timely manner.
• Support caretaking, maintenance, portering duties and staff on site.
• Liaise with external contractors to ensure compliance and maintenance.

Skills

Flexible approach

Organisational skills

Fire alarm monitoring

Tools

Fire alarm system

Job description

About The Role

Are you someone who takes pride in keeping buildings safe, secure and running at their best?

EKC Folkestone College is looking for two proactive, reliable Estates Assistant to join the team at our Folkestone site. If you enjoy hand-on work and keeping facilities safe, welcoming and running smoothly, this role could be the perfect fit.

What you’ll do:

• Acting as a responsible key holder, unlock or lock buildings, depending on work pattern, ensuring the site is safe and secure, take part in the on-call rota to keep the campus running smoothly.
• Be responsible for the setting and un-setting of the intruder alarm as well as undertake regular fire alarm and emergency lights checks throughout the building.
• Undertake timely checking of core infrastructure and equipment.
• Support a wide range of caretaking and general Estates duties, minor repairs and maintenance, delivery and portering duties, and supporting staff on site.
• Support external contractors throughout the year to ensure the building and its equipment are maintained in accordance with all legislation.

Key Details

Salary: £5,350

Contract: Permanent

Hours per week: 7.5

Working Pattern: We are flexible and happy to discuss the working day

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus highly on our employees!

Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Generous and Consistent Holiday Pattern
• Flexible Personal Leave
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks
• Wellbeing and Health Support
• Competitive Pension Scheme

Full list of company benefits

About You

We’re excited to welcome a new enthusiastic and conscientious team member to join us. If you’re someone who enjoys variety, can stay calm under pressure, and works well both independently and with others, we’d love to hear from you.

What We’re Looking For

• A friendly, flexible approach to tasks and shift patterns
• Good organisational skills and the ability to keep things running smoothly
• Experience in monitoring, testing and accurate record keeping of Fire Alarm & Emergency Lighting system and have a working knowledge of Legionella within a working environment.
• A genuine interest in sharing your knowledge and supporting the next generation
• Enthusiasm and a positive attitude; experience is helpful, but passion really counts
• You’ll need to live within 20 minutes of the campus

If you’d like an informal chat about the role or have any questions, feel free to get in touch at [e-mail]

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent CollegesGroup is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold thePositive About Disability Awardand are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.