Facilities Caretaker

Job title:

Facilities Caretaker

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

We’d also like to use analytics cookies so we can understand how you use our website and make improvements to your services.Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookiesSearchSearch Somerset CouncilPopular searchesJobFacilities CaretakerClosing in 16 days (9 February, 2025)Salary £14,840 – £15,313 per annum for 22.5 hours per week
Department County Services
Working pattern Part Time
Location Taunton
Closing date 9 February, 2025About the job

• Based at County Hall, Taunton
• Two Part Time positions
• 22.5 hours a week working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 6.30am to 3pm
• 22.5 hours a week working on a Monday 11,00am to 7.30pm, Thursday and Friday 6.30am to 3pm
• 25 days annual leave (pro rata for part time)

The Facilities Management Team provides premises management, health, and safety statutory checks, assists with incident control, financial and procurement administration. We act as first point of contact for building users. We are a busy team, and each day brings interesting challenges and tasks.We currently have vacancies for enthusiastic and motivated individuals who is resilient, have excellent technical, administrative and customer service skills and a natural problem solver to join our small, high profile facilities management team.We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that.You’ll be joining a small friendly team of staff providing a caretaking and basic maintenance and repairs service, as well as admin support across our facilities management sites. As a Facilities Assistant your varied duties will include:

• Caretaking duties – including opening County Hall and securing it in the evening, regular health and safety checks and assisting with Incident control.
• Carrying out portering duties, such as moving furniture.
• Carrying out minor repairs to furniture, office fittings and occasionally office fabric, straightforward carpentry and construction in relation to our offices.
• Assisting in the post room – sorting, scanning, franking & delivering mail
• Weekly Health and Safety Tours, Legionella checks, emergency lighting checks, panic alarm testing, fire alarm testing and evac chair checks.
• Providing front office cover support for Facilities Management – answering phones, emails and walk-in enquiries from internal customers.

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. But it will really help if you:

• You have experience in a similar role, with basic building maintenance knowledge.
• You take pride in your work, have great work ethic and want to play your part in creating a welcoming and safe environment.
• You have experience of using Word, Excel and Outlook.

We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

Experience in a health and safety environment or premises management role is preferred but not essential as training will be given.If this role is customer facing you will need to speak fluent English.The salary is £14,840 – £15,313 per annum for 22.5 hours per weekIf you are interested in finding out more before applying, please get in touch with Louise Smith (01823 355352)When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button – we can’t wait to hear from you.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£14840 – 15313 per year

Location

Taunton, Somerset

Job date

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 07:53:09 GMT

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