Job Title:         Regional Facilities Manager

Location:         Longdon Park School, Egginton, Derbyshire

Salary:             £30,000 - £34,000 per annum

Hours:             37.5 hours per week

Contract:         Permanent

We are looking for an experienced Regional Facilities Manager to join our fantastic team at Longdon Park, Egginton.

Job purpose

This position will oversee 3 sites, each of which has their own dedicated Facilities Co-ordinator.

To coordinate and manage the Facilities Team and to ensure that a high-quality facilities service is provided to the region.  Provide day to day supervision for planned and responsible repair programmes, domestic tasks and catering duties (service dependent).  Ensuring that the facilities provided are of a high standard at all times and that the facilities team exercise their full responsibilities, duties and tasks.

Essential

  • General Maintenance experience
  • Health & Safety experience
  • Relevant experience of managing a multi-functional team
  • Experience at management level in an education/residential setting
  • Experience of leading and managing maintenance projects
  • Experience of costing work, purchasing and working within budgets
  • Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable

  • IOSH 

About us

Longdon Park School opened in June 2015. We are a co-educational day school catering for pupils aged 7-18 with complex educational needs, communication difficulties and challenging behaviour primarily with a diagnosis of ASD.   We provide a therapeutic, supportive and inclusive learning environment where our young people learn to accept responsibility for their actions, make positive decisions and display pro-social behaviour. We are committed to raising achievement and enabling pupils to recognise their potential and supporting them through a personalised, engaging curriculum. Our priority is to develop the foundation knowledge and skills required to make a manageable and smooth transition to the next life stage.

For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to children, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

Why join Options Autism?

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

  • Life Assurance
  • Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
  • “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

  • A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
  • 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
  • Cycle to Work Schemes
  • Electric Car Purchase Scheme
  • Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.


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