Maintenance & Compliance Assistant

West Kirby School & College is Seeking to Appoint a Dedicated Maintenance & Compliance Assistant

Closing Date: Friday 4^th December at 9am

Salary: £27,349.92 - £30,232.80 (pt 12 – pt 16)

Contract: 52 weeks

25 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays

Permanent Contract

Hours: 36 hours per week

8:30am – 5:00pm (Mon – Thurs), 8:30am – 3:30pm (Fri)

Benefits: Access to private healthcare scheme (Benenden) · Enhanced family leave benefits · Onsite gym facilities · Half-termly wellbeing afternoons · Free school lunch · Access to CPD enhancement

Role Overview:      

We are seeking an enthusiastic, proactive and experienced Maintenance and Compliance Assistant to join our Premises Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who takes pride in maintaining high standards and understands the vital role that health, safety and compliance play in supporting education.

At the heart of this role is a commitment to ensuring that our school remains a safe, secure, compliant and welcoming environment for pupils, staff, visitors and contractors. You will play a key role in helping the school meet its statutory obligations while contributing to the smooth day-to-day operation of our buildings and grounds.

Working closely with the Premises Manager and Maintenance Coordinator, you will be responsible for supporting all aspects of site maintenance, health and safety compliance, and quality assurance across the school estate. This is more than a maintenance role. We are looking for someone who can actively identify risks, promote safe working practices, undertake compliance inspections and help ensure that the school continues to operate to the highest possible standards.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

1. Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across the school site
2. Supporting the school’s health, safety and compliance programme
3. Undertaking routine compliance inspections, audits and statutory checks
4. Conducting regular fire safety inspections and maintaining fire safety records
5. Identifying hazards and reporting defects or non-compliance issues promptly
6. Maintaining accurate compliance documentation and records
7. Assisting with contractor monitoring and ensuring safe working practices are followed
8. Supporting site security, safeguarding and emergency procedures
9. Ensuring buildings and grounds remain safe, clean, secure and fit for purpose
10. Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in health, safety and operational compliance

The ideal candidate will have:

1. Experience within a maintenance, facilities, estate, compliance or building services role
2. A minimum IOSH Managing Safely qualification (essential)
3. A strong understanding of health and safety legislation, risk management and compliance responsibilities within the workplace
4. Experience of carrying out compliance inspections, health and safety checks, audits or record keeping
5. Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify hazards and potential risks before they become incidents
6. Good organisational skills with the ability to maintain accurate compliance documentation and records
7. A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement
8. The ability to work independently and as part of a wider premises team
9. Strong communication skills and the confidence to challenge unsafe practices where necessary
10. A positive, professional attitudes and commitment to maintaining high standards of safety, compliance and site presentation

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to rigorous recruitment checks. West Kirby School & College is an exempt employer as defined in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975) and as such, we have a lawful basis for requesting an enhanced DBS disclosure certificate for all employees.