. This role does not offer sponsorship.
Are you practical, reliable, and take pride in keeping environments safe, clean and running smoothly?
Oak Tree School in Truro is seeking a proactive and dedicated Facilities Assistant to join our friendly and supportive team. This is a vital role in ensuring the school’s buildings and grounds are well-maintained, secure, and welcoming for our students, staff and visitors.
About the Role
As a Facilities Assistant, you will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day maintenance, security, and smooth operation of the school site and premises. This is a key role within the school, helping to ensure a safe, functional, and welcoming environment for our pupils, staff, and visitors.
Working closely with the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team, you will take ownership of a wide variety of duties to keep the school running effectively—balancing planned maintenance tasks with responding quickly to emerging issues.
You’ll play a key part in:
1. Maintenance & Repairs – Carrying out minor repairs, general maintenance, and small improvement projects such as putting up shelves or noticeboards.
2. Security – Acting as a keyholder, managing alarms, and ensuring the site is safe and secure at all times.
3. Upkeep of Premises – Ensuring cleanliness and functionality of school buildings and grounds, assisting with health and safety checks.
4. Support for Events – Helping set up rooms and spaces for meetings or school events as required.
5. Contractor Liaison – Overseeing and evaluating external contractors working on site.
Who We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
6. Organised, dependable and hands-on
7. Able to carry out minor repairs and maintenance
8. Confident working independently and as part of a team
9. Committed to upholding health and safety standards
10. Flexible, with a proactive attitude to problem-solving
Experience in a facilities or caretaking role is preferred but not essential—we’re happy to provide training for the right candidate with a can-do attitude.
About Us
Oak Tree School in Truro has recently expanded and developed two new buildings and undergone a successful inspection from Ofsted allowing us to offer a wider age range of pupils from 5 – 18 years the opportunity to have the best education possible. Oak Tree School is a specialist SEMH provision positioned near the city of Truro in Cornwall. The school provides full-time specialist co-education for up to 135 pupils and young people aged 5 to 18 who experience social, emotional, mental health, communication difficulties and associated challenging behaviours. These pupils and young people often cannot cope, function or achieve within a mainstream environment. The aim is to provide a structured, nurturing approach, with pupils accessing a broad, balanced and engaging curriculum to meet their significant needs.
This opportunity is in Truro which is within commutable distance of Redruth, St Austell and surrounding areas.
Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education. 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.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.
Why join Acorn Education?
We place the outcomes of the pupils 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 safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:
11. Life Assurance
12. Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
13. “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:
14. A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
15. 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
16. Cycle to Work Schemes
17. Electric Car Purchase Scheme
18. Critical illness cover
19. Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
*You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit
Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.
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