Would you like your building & maintenance skills to make a real difference in the lives of children with learning disabilities and autism?
MacIntyre School is a specialist residential school nestled in the beautiful rural surroundings of Wingrave. We provide education for children and young people with autism and learning disabilities.
Full-time
As our Buildings and Maintenance Technician, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the safety, functionality, and beauty of our school environment. Your work will directly impact the well-being and daily experiences of our students and staff, ensuring that our school remains a safe, welcoming, and inspiring place to learn and grow.
You will carry out activities such as ground maintenance, general repairs and decorating, meeting the requirements of regulatory bodies and ensuring compliance. You will use your initiative and show flexibility to meet the changing needs of the site.
About You
- Competent at basic building repairs and maintenance and ground maintenance.
- Experience in the use of small industrial/electrical/mechanical equipment.
- Knowledge of basic health and safety legislation and a understanding of site security issues.
- Day-to-day experience of supervising contractors.
- Able to operate electrical/mechanical systems.
- Able to prioritise, take responsibility and work on own initiative.
- Self-motivated, flexible and committed to high standards.
- Sensitive to the needs of people with learning difficulties, and an attitude towards others based on respect, dignity and equality.
- Hold a clean manual driving licence and be able to drive a van.
Training and Development
At MacIntyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support while on the job.
Pay and Rewards
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:
- Six weeks’ annual leave including statutory public holidays
- Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
- MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
- Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
- MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
- Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
- MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
- MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
- Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
- Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
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