Facilities Assistant - Chester, United Kingdom - Save the Family Ltd

Save the Family Ltd

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Chester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Role:
Facilities Assistant (house-keeping)

Salary:
£18,964.40 per annum

Location:
Just outside Chester

Job Type:
Permanent - Full Time

Hours of work:35 hours per week, Monday - Friday

Closing Date:
Monday 25th September 2023 _(Interviews taking place week commencing Monday 2nd October 2023)_

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Facilities Assistant to provide facilities support and deliver a full house-keeping service.

About Save the Family
Save the Family is a charity based in Cheshire. We provide a safe community environment combined with tailored mentoring to homeless and vulnerable families.

The help offered includes access to training, employment support and issue led support enabling families to get back on their feet and move forward with confidence.

Why Work for Us
The success of Save the Family has spanned over 40 years.

We value our people and take great pride in our core values that are embedded through everything we do to CREATE a positive future.

Benefits

Friendly, small passionate teams
Pleasant, supportive working environments
Rewarding work helping our families reach their potential
Competitive salary
Extensive training and development programme (including Safeguarding)
Cashback healthcare plan
Pension Scheme
Free parking

The Role

To provide facilities support and deliver a full house-keeping service, ensuring that all resident's furniture and household requirements are met through efficient sorting, sourcing and allocation of items.

This role also includes cleaning duties; stock rotation of store cupboards and maintenance of inventories, including the ordering of stock.

Aspects of the role will include:

At the beginning of each shift, be aware of activities/issues on site by liaising with the relevant staff/managers.
Carry out cleaning duties in communal areas, ensuring high standards at all times.
Implement identified tasks from weekly site/property review into a timetable of tasks for completion on a weekly basis.
Provide guidance to volunteers who provide support with donation sorting and allocation of items.
Allocate furniture/household items required across the charity and sort accordingly.
Maintain stocks of cleaning materials, hygiene supplies bedding, curtains and kitchen goods and ensure stock rotation of store cupboards and onsite shop.
Prepare rooms and properties for new residents and ensure the inventories reflect the furniture and household goods provided.
Provide support with arrangements for events, ensuring any tasks necessary are planned for.
Support residents to encourage a sense of pride in the home and safe and adequate standards of hygiene. Encourage awareness of the importance of recycling household waste and how this is done.
Check the contents of the First Aid boxes monthly and maintain a stock of First Aid Materials.
Work with facilities colleague(s) to carry out 6 monthly health and safety property checks and compile a snagging list.
Work with facilities colleague(s) as required to ensure that landlord health and safety checks are carried out when required.
Agree a remedial property vacate plan with residents, one month prior to move on.
Act as Fire Warden and First Aider, having received appropriate training.
Communicate any Safeguarding issues to the responsible officer in accordance with the established procedure.

We would be grateful if all applicants could fill in our equality and diversity monitoring form, which can be downloaded via our website link above.

If you would like an informal conversation about the role, please contact Katrina on

Safeguarding and equal opportunities

Save the Family is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, therefore a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) (previously known as CRB) check is required with this post._
Save the Family is an equal opportunities employer._

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£18,964.40 per year

Benefits: