Level 2 Facilities Operative Apprenticeship
Level 2 Facilities Operative Apprenticeship
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30-04-2025
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Level 2 Facilities Operative Apprenticeship @ Northwood School
We are looking for a motivated apprentice to support our Facilities team with daytoday tasks including cleaning maintenance security and Health & Safety. This is a great opportunity to learn handson skills and play a key role in keeping the school safe clean and running smoothly.
- Salary:7.55 an hoursalary increase after the first year providing your 19
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week
- Duration: 13 months
- Level 2 Facilities Operative Apprenticeship standard qualification
- Online training and support by our dedicated tutors
- Address: Pinner Road Northwood HA6 1QN
Duties
- Keeping premises grounds and car park tidy swept and free of leaf and litter accumulation and ensuring hard surfaces are free from weeds including providing an emergency ad hoc response in the event of adverse weather conditions to undertake snow clearance and gritting.
- Keeping external rubbish bins emptied.
- Receiving incoming goods and mail receipting sorting and ensuring correct distribution and dispatch.
- Setting up of all scheduled room layouts equipment and the setting up during open evenings and weekends.
- Providing janitorial duties including ensuring sufficient consumables materials and equipment are available to support the delivery of services in particular cleaning.
- Monitoring of car park at specified intervals ensuring that only authorised users (from the list provided by the School) are parked.
- Ensuring that gates and entrances are kept clear supervising car parking during additional school periods when required.
- Assisting in ad hoc/emergency cleaning to deal with spillages sickness etc. in addition to regular cleaning duties.
- Carrying out maintenance and handyperson duties which include fabrics and redecorations (paintings) and grounds maintenance as directed by the Operations Assistant/Operations Director.
- Carrying out AstroTurf routine weekly maintenance using rideon lawn mower.
- Adhoc duties such as moving furniture/equipment/goods around the site. Moving heavy goods after appropriate training and with due attention to Risk Assessment.
- Identify and evaluate HSE risks in daily and directed tasks to avoid mitigate or reduce the potential impact of these risks on the business.
- Carrying out routine legionella tests.
- Security activities covering the unlocking and locking of the School premises setting/unsetting intruder alarms patrolling the site at regular intervals reporting intruders onsite and responding to security incident callouts as directed by the Operations Assistant/Operations Director.
- Be an active keyholder to report to the site outofhours in the event of intruder alarms fire alarms and fire faults.
- Completing weekly fire alarm tests sprinkler tests smoke valves tests and assisting with the organisation of fire drills etc. Providing the agreed response to emergency alarm activations and fulfilling the duties as required in the Schools fire emergency plan.
- Opening and locking up during school holidays as directed by Operations Director.
- Additional school periods and participating in the emergency callout rota.
- Carrying out daily visual check on plant rooms and mechanical equipment such as boiler pumps etc.
- Carrying out daily check on BMS for any issues with mechanical equipment(heating/cooling) and AHU.
- Liaise with external providers/manufacturers to facilitate in the resolution of service/repair requests.
- Ensure that technical escalations are carried out promptly and followed up.
- Northwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks including an enhanced DBS check
- Ensure that safeguarding software is up to date running and student accounts are correctly configured for their use.
- Make sure all requests for Premises new purchases/repairs or major changes are recorded/logged on the FreshDesk System.
- Make sure daily caretaker tasks are attended and closed on Every system.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship
Potential fulltime employment for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Preemployment checks. Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment the company completes digitalised righttowork checks and DBS applications via an external provider Matrix Screening. The company also completes an internal online social media search in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
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