Facilities Assistant

Summary

St Peter's are looking for a Facilities Assistant to provide a responsive, efficient and professional support service to the School including porterage and ensuring the safety and security of the School’s pupils, staff, visitors, property, premises and facilities.

Detail

Facilities Assistant Job Description

Department - Estates

Responsible To - Head of Facilities and Transport

Salary - £14.79 per hour (Point 4 on St Peter's Support Scale)

Hours of work: Possibility of both fixed part-time hours or ad-hoc and when the school requires extra staffing.

We run two shift patterns covering the hours below:

Your rota will be agreed to a minimum of two weeks in advance or longer if on fixed part-time hours, however some flexibility will be required in order to cover unforeseen absences. Please note that the rota operates for 365 days per year, including bank holidays.

Overall Purpose of the Post

To provide a responsive, efficient and professional support service to the School including porterage and ensuring the safety and security of the School’s pupils, staff, visitors, property, premises and facilities.

The nature of the role is such that an exhaustive list of duties is not possible. On any given day a Facilities Assistant may be required to transport materials, paint a wall, sweep paths, drive the minibus, unload a delivery of furniture, conduct the daily parking checks and deal appropriately with a possible trespasser.

This is a very public role which, combined with the fact that Facilities Assistants are often the people with full responsibility for the site, makes it an important role for the School.

Key Responsibilities

To undertake porterage and caretaking duties including the setting up and clearing of rooms in preparation for meetings, lessons, exams and functions.

To conduct daily collection and delivery of laundry.

To drive the school vehicles, including the minibuses. On occasions this may involve transporting pupils to and from school.

To act as fire wardens in the event of an alarm

To be the School’s representative, ensuring excellent customer service at all times to pupils, parents, staff and visitors.

To conduct the collection and delivery of internal and external mail.

To respond quickly to cleaning requirements that fall outside of normal cleaner hours such as functions.

To ensure that the school’s vehicle fleet is safe and secure by conducting the regular checks.

To understand and comply with the health and safety requirements of the role (for which training will be given). This may include the use of personal, protective equipment and adherence to safety rules and assessments.

To unlock and/or secure all buildings, and report any defective locks, security lights and other aspects of the school’s property and premises that may require repair or maintenance.

To undertake general maintenance work as requested. This may include painting, minor joinery, plumbing and electrical tasks.

To undertake clearing of paths etc. during periods of bad weather (e.g. snow, ice etc.).

To regularly patrol the school site ensuring security is maintained, including perimeter gates and fences.

To record any incidents or breaches of security, incidents of injury or damage to property to the Head of Facilities & Transport.

To respond to intruder and fire alarms, taking appropriate action as required, including the summoning of emergency services.

To test fire alarms on a regular basis throughout the school, including the boarding houses, pool and other ancillary buildings, keeping accurate logs and reporting any faults.

To provide a friendly and efficient enquiry service for pupils, parents and visitors to the School ensuring those that need to sign in, in the appropriate log book.

General

Health & Safety - You have a legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter’s School’s Health and Safety policy.

School values – You have a duty to ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school’s core values and mission. You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, those relating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter's School strives to be diverse and inclusive. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. The school is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and pupils. This means that employees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason. The post holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law and the St Peter's policies on equality and diversity.

The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities associated with the post. The post holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

This job description may be amended at any time.

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Documents

• Privacy Notice for Job Applicants - May 2026 PDF Document
• Facilities Assistant - Recruitment Pack Aug 26 PDF Document