Lettings Caretaker

Avanti Gardens School; West of England; Sur place; GBP 14 000 - 21 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

LGPS pension

O2 discounts

Specsavers vouchers

NUS/CSSC membership

Well-being programs

Cycle-to-work

Résumé du poste

Avanti Gardens School is seeking a reliable Lettings Caretaker to manage daily arrangements for community lettings, including opening and securing facilities and ensuring a welcoming, safe environment. The role requires good organisational and communication skills, with availability for evenings, weekends and school holidays, and a commitment to high standards and the ethos of Avanti Gardens.

You will lead tours, coordinate cleaners and contractors, and ensure premises meet health and safety

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer focussed environment.
• Effective written and oral communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Competent with Windows and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to cope with a varied and demanding workload.

Responsabilités

• Hold responsibility for site keys, opening and closing facilities for community lettings.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness, presentation and equipment; liaise with cleaners or contractors.
• Provide welcoming, professional service and show facilities to prospective clients.
• Carry out post-booking checks and ensure health, safety and school policies are followed.
• Work evenings, weekends and school holidays with reliability and initiative.

Connaissances

Customer service

Communication

Organisational skills

Flexible schedule

Team player

Outils

Windows

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

Please Note: £12.71 per hour, casual part-time

About The Role

Avanti Gardens is seeking a responsible and adaptable Lettings Caretaker to oversee the day-to-day arrangements for our community lettings. From opening and securing our facilities to maintaining equipment and supporting customers, you will ensure our premises are welcoming, safe and well presented.

This varied role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, alongside a flexible approach to working evenings, weekends and school holidays. The successful candidate will share our commitment to high standards and demonstrate behaviours that reflect the School’s ethos and values.

What will you do?

• Hold responsibility for the Trust’s site keys, opening and securely closing facilities before and after community lettings, ensuring bookings run smoothly and on time.
• Maintain a high standard of cleanliness, presentation and equipment, carrying out basic cleaning and liaising with cleaning teams or contractors where necessary.
• Provide a welcoming, professional and customer-focused service, showing prospective clients around the facilities and responding to queries or resolving any issues or complaints.
• Carry out post-booking checks to ensure facilities are left in good order, provide access to First Aid equipment when required and follow all relevant health, safety, fire and school policies.
• Demonstrate reliability, punctuality, flexibility and initiative, working independently across evenings, weekends and school holidays while upholding the ethos and values of Avanti Gardens.

Why should you apply

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England.

All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

What are we looking for?

• Experience working in a customer focussed environment
• ective communication skills both written and oral to both internal and external stakeholders
• Competent with Windows and Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to cope with a varied and demanding workload

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.