Maintenance Assistant

jobs24.co.uk; Frome; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated maintenance team at a specialist school, where you will play a vital role in ensuring a safe and secure environment for young people with ASD. As a Maintenance Assistant, you will tackle daily maintenance tasks, support community homes, and work closely with contractors. This role offers a chance to develop your skills in plumbing, electrical work, and carpentry while contributing to the well-being of students. With a commitment to training and career progression, this is an opportunity to grow in a supportive and rewarding environment. If you are passionate about making a difference and enjoy hands-on work, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme

Comprehensive induction

Blue Light Card

Commitment to ongoing training and career progression

Teacher pension scheme

Paid for enhanced PVG/DBS

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in plumbing, electrical work, carpentry, and plastering is ideal.
• Demonstrated values and transferable skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out reactive day-to-day maintenance issues within the site.
• Assist in supporting other homes in the community and liaise with contractors.

Skills

Plumbing

Electrical work

Carpentry

Plastering

DIY skills

Job description

Newbury Manor School are recruiting for a Maintenance Assistant to join their maintenance team. We are looking for a passionate handyperson and an enthusiastic DIYer, who will carry out reactive day-to-day maintenance issues within the site and their grounds. You will also assist in supporting our other homes in the community, liaising with contractors when on site and ad-hoc requests from management as and when necessary.

Newbury Manor School is a specialist school for young people aged 7 to 19 who have autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). Our tailored approach means we are able to support young people with a wide range of needs, from those who are broadly average in their ability to others, who have more severe learning difficulties. We provide a total environment where young people are offered safe, secure and predictable surroundings in which they can come to understand their own areas of difficulties and learn skills and techniques in order to overcome them. This ensures that they are able to fulfil their potential socially, academically, physically and spiritually and enable them to rebuild their low self-esteem and self-belief.

As part of Aspris Children's Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress. Ideally, you will have experience in some of the following areas: plumbing, electrical, carpentry, plastering (qualifications are not essential).

Our benefits include:

1. Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
2. Comprehensive induction
3. Blue Light Card
4. Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
5. Teacher pension scheme
6. Paid for enhanced PVG/DBS
7. Wellbeing support
8. Cycle to work scheme and more!