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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housekeeping Assistant to join our Housekeeping Team. This role will require the successful candidate to provide a high standard of housekeeping ensuring excellent levels of cleanliness are consistent throughout the site and that infection control procedures are met across site.
Staff benefits include free shuttle bus, and more… Read more below
Role Requirements
As part of the site services team the role holder will be expected to liaise with managers and staff across the Trust. The role holder is expected to work closely with the other members of the facilities team and assist in covering in the laundry, in the deep clean team or other works as and when required.
You will be a natural and enthusiastic housekeeper working not only as part of a team but also individually. You will be health and safety aware, take ownership of your own work, and be understanding of the children’s needs here at The Children’s Trust. Good organisational skills, flexibility and being friendly and caring in nature are a must for this role. Please note that the role requires a significant degree of manual handling and working with houses services and laundry equipment.
With experience of working in a complex environment, across a large and diverse workforce, you will be exceptionally organised with a high-level of attention to detail. You will naturally possess excellent inter-personal skills, and an ability to consult and positively engage with key stakeholders across the organisation.
Strictly no agencies, please.
As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion.
About Us
The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.
Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.
Staff Benefits
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.
We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.
Other benefits include: free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Rehabilitation of Offender’s
We comply with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) code of practice and have a written policy on the recruitment of applicants with criminal records, both of which are available on request.
Equal Opportunity Employer
To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.
Online Searches
In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Essex Pedal Power Bike Mechanic
Salary: £8,718.90 (FTE £21,216)
Location: Basildon, Essex
Hours: Part time 15 hours per week to include occasional weekend and evening working
Contract type: Fixed term contract until 31st December 2024
Essex Pedal Power is an exciting community cycling programme that aims to support more people to cycle by removing barriers to participation. The programme provides FREE high-quality bikes to eligible residents living in the borough. The Essex Pedal Power Basildon team work closely with local organisations and employers to identify people who will benefit most from a free bike. So far, the team have given away nearly 300 free bikes, and given the success of the project more funding has been received to extend this work.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an existing team who are dedicated to supporting the community and removing barriers to participation. The postholder will be responsible to the local project coordinator, and day-to-day support and supervision will be provided by the team’s full time cycle mechanic. As part-time cycle mechanic you will be responsible for building a range of bikes, general maintenance and servicing of our fleet and supporting the distribution of bikes at our giveaway events. Other roles may include delivering bike repair sessions and maintenance workshops, refurbishing second hand bikes and working alongside volunteers. The majority of your work will take place at our bike workshop in Billericay.
The postholder will be expected to work 15 hours across the week, including occasional evenings and weekends, with flexible working.
We will consider adjusting these hours for the right candidate.
Main duties
- Build a range of bikes to cater for the local communities that we serve.
- Carry out general repairs and the servicing of our bike fleet using an agreed schedule as approved by the Manager. This will include bike repairs being carried out in our workshop and also at our Bike Hubs in the community.
- Identify, order and fit a range of bike parts that are needed to ensure the maintenance, or enhancement, of our bike fleet within an agreed budget.
- To work in an entrepreneurial way with the local community to deliver Cycle Maintenance Workshops and Dr. Bike training sessions.
- To maintain an electronic inventory of our bike stock and an electronic servicing record for our bike fleet.
- To work with the Manager to maintain the brand and integrity of our projects.
- Any other reasonable tasks as required by the Manager.
Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility. You will be working alongside our full time cycle mechanic who will provide necessary guidance on the above duties.
Knowledge, skills and experience
All criteria are essential, and your application will be assessed on all points detailed below.
- Cytech or City and Guild Cycle Mechanic qualified, at least at Level 1 (preferably at Level 2).
- Passion and an interest in cycling and understanding of the benefits that cycling/physical activity can bring.
- Comprehensive experience of working in a bicycle workshop or experience with bikes/carrying out bicycle builds and pre-delivery inspection of new bicycles is desired.
- Ability to build a range of bikes upon delivery from our preferred supplier(s) to meet the organisation's deadlines and support the bike giveaway roll out.
- Good partnership and relationship management skills.
- Excellent team player with the ability to deliver a first class technical service through high standards and the efficient turnaround of maintenance and repairs work.
- Clear knowledge of quality assurance processes. Experience of using quality assurance to assist service delivery.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Good computer skills, knowledge of Microsoft Office is desirable.
- Excellent written, verbal and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload.
- Knowledge and understanding of the cooperative principles and commitment to ensuring their delivery in the course of undertaking the role.
- Experience of working proactively, working on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Confident to be customer facing to support the needs of the local communities.
Staff benefits
We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include:
- Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days.
- Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3% employee contribution.
- Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
- Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day).
- Life Assurance – x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
- Flexible working.
- Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month.
Application details
Please submit a Cover Letter and CV. You must have the right to live and take up employment in the UK.
When writing your Cover Letter, include the experience you have had relevant to the 'Main Duties' and the 'Knowledge, Skills & Experience' sections of the advert, but as a minimum please address how you meet the following criteria which will be weighted highly:
- Your experience of working in a bicycle workshop or experience with bikes/ carrying out bicycle builds
- An ability to work autonomously and to work under pressure
- Experience of working with a variety of people from all backgrounds
- Organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time
- Awareness of the Essex Pedal Power project values and goals
Application closing date Wednesday 3rd April at midnight
Interviews held week commencing 8th April 2024
We reserve the right to shortlist, interview and appoint for this role prior to the closing date for applications, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP.
We will provide all applicants with an outcome on your application.
Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked prior to starting.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we, in recruiting for our team we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring.
The Active Wellbeing Society is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, we recruit based upon capability and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
At The Active Wellbeing Society we are searching for people who share the passion for what we do with different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, collectively making a difference.
If there is anything we can do to assist you in your application or preparations to be interviewed for one of our job vacancies please let us know and we can ensure you have a positive and comfortable experience.
Thank you for your interest in working for The Active Wellbeing Society, we look forward to receiving your application.