SALFORD CIVIC CENTRE
CHORLEY ROAD
SWINTON
M27 5DA
Building Custodian Apprentice
Grade: Your salary will starting at £15,410 rising to £16,893 in your second year
Contract: Fixed term for two years
Working Hours: Working Hours: Full time 36 per week - shift system
Early Shift 6.30am to 2.30pm
or
Split Shift 6.30am to 9.30am then 2.30pm to 6.42pm
Closing Date: 08/03/2020 23:59
About You
You will be flexible in your approach to work and be prepared to work both inside and outdoors. You will be confident to work on your own initiative, take a pride in your work, getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong. You will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how do it to make a difference. You will have good attention to detail and good customer service skills and the ability to perform a varied role and adapt easily to change.
If any of the below apply, we would love to hear from you:
• Have experience in any of the following areas: security, maintenance, engineering, cleaning, post-room services or portering.
• If you have previous experience as a caretaker, handyman, gardener, carpenter, painter, decorator, plumber, electrician, mechanic or refuse collector.
• Have a desire for a varied and ‘hands on’ role working within a practical environment
About the role
As a Building Custodian Apprentice you will work under the direction of the Assistant Facilities Managers and Facilities Officers to provide a wide range of duties. Your overall duty will be to ensure the safe and efficient operation of Salford City Council’s corporate buildings and Salford’s schools.
Full training will be provided for this role and within the first 18 months you will complete a Facilities Services Operative course to support you in learning to provide facilities services support to our customers. You will be overseen by an experienced tutor alongside the Assistant Facilities Managers. At the end of the course you will receive professional recognition as an associate member of the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management.
Please note
You must be able to drive and will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use.
As the roles are offered as a split shift, please take into account travelling time before applying for the role.
Role Profile.docx
Working for Salford.pdf
Please apply with a CV and no more than 1 A4 sheet detailing why you feel you would be suitable for the role.
Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £44.00. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months’ salary payments at a rate of £11.00 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £44.00.
Please be aware overseas checks will be required if you have lived or worked abroad continuously or in total for 3 months or more over the last 5 years, or 12 months or more over the last 10 years, whilst aged 16 or over. For more information, please visit
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants.
About your benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.
Continuous service commitment
New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work
https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion.
Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at
https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr.