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Operations Assistant
Location: Godalming, Surrey
Salary: £26,208 per annum
Our client’s school is beautiful and a wonderful place to live and work. It was founded in 1611 and moved to its present magnificent 250-acre site near Godalming in Surrey in 1872. Few schools can offer such a splendid backdrop for teaching and learning, and the School community is very strong, with excellent relationships between pupils and staff.
The Role
The role of the Operations Assistant can include a number of tasks including but not exclusive to: Cleaning of the School, undertaking scheduled tasks which include venue set up for events and functions, post, laundry, housekeeping and waste and recycling collection. Working to schedules which can often have tight deadlines the role requires an appreciation of customer service and a respect for detail.
Main Duties:
- The setup of venues across the school to the correct standards for both internal and external events. This also includes Enterprises events that take place in out of term periods.
- Exams support by way of the correct setup, furniture, equipment and papers needed in the appropriate time frames.
- Collect post from different locations within the site and process both the internal and external mail.
- Logistics across site including collection and disposal of waste/recycling.
- The supply and movement of furniture as requested for either pupil buildings or function set ups.
- Manage the central stores and delivery of cleaning products to the correct venues.
- Working with the Laundry team by collecting and returning the laundry according to the schedule.
- Ability to drive School vehicles including the Luton tailgate van.
- Clean, when necessary inside areas of school to a professional standard and when needed.
Skills and Qualifications
- Friendly, caring, approachable manner.
- Flexible approach to changing circumstances.
- Able to use initiative and work without supervision, and either as part of a team or as a lone worker.
- Physically fit as this role can require frequent manual handling.
- Ability to manage time effectively.
- Calm and reassuring, especially in an emergency situation.
- Utterly discrete and capable of handling confidentiality appropriately.
- Willing, polite and professionally welcoming.
- Punctual, reliable and trustworthy.
- Diligent with great attention to detail.
- Committed to achieving high standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
- Team player who is able to work in harmony with others.
- Willing to undertake any training relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Membership of the Sports Club
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cash health plan
- Contributory pension scheme
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable School, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
