Office Facilities Operative
Please Note: The application deadline for this post has now passed.
Post Introduction
WE ARE LOOKING FOR A OFFICE FACILITIES OPERATIVE
About the Department/Role
The Facilities team plays a crucial role in the maintenance of Church House. Enabling the work of all staff and all their work activities across the Westminster NCI estate.
What you'll be doing
As an Office Facilities team member, you will support the Facilities Team Leader to make Church House a safe and well managed environment for our staff, Corporation colleagues and visitors. You will be ensuring that tea points are fully stocked, and the refreshments are available to all users. Preparing and delivering catering required to meeting rooms. Managing and supporting the meeting rooms at Church House, from booking, room layout and first line technical support of the AV equipment. Porterage of packages and equipment and assisting with small office moves.
Carrying out some small maintenance work around the building. As a key and valued member of the Technology Services capability within the NCI’s, you will often be the first line of support to all NCI colleagues for general support and advice to enable them to complete their work.
Key Requirements
- This role is a reduced hours role, at 28hrs over a 4-day week, preferably Monday to Thursday.
- This role has the opportunity of additional hours and renumeration, to cover any Annual leave.
- Whilst the NCIs are committed to wellbeing and work/life balance, given the nature of this role, the post-holder will be expected to join the team shift system, working occasional unsocial hours and being on call outside normal working hours.
About You
The Church of England is for everyone and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to recruiting disabled people. We offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Key role requirements
- Knowledge of the facilities sector, dealing with a variety of stakeholders
- Operational and administrative tasks
- Ability to organise, prioritise, work within a small team
- Good numeracy and IT skills particularly in Microsoft Office
- Friendly and customer focused
- Ability to work on your own initiative and/or part of a team
Qualifications/ Training
- IOSH Trained (or willing to take this qualification)
- DSE Assessor qualification (or willing to take this qualification)
- First aid at work trained (or willing to take this qualification)
Please refer to the Job Description for more information about the role and person specification.
What we offer
Your Salary
- A salary of £ 27,841 per annum, plus age-related pension contributions between 8-15% of salary. We will also match any pension contributions you make up to an additional 3% of your salary.
Your Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus eight bank holidays and three additional days (pro-rated if working part-time).
- We welcome all flexible working arrangement requests. This is looked at in a case-by-case scenario and if this fits within the department’s needs. We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
- We offer many services and initiatives under our Family Friendly Programme, some of these include enhanced Maternity Leave initiative, Adoption Leave, Paternity Leave, & Shared Parental Leave. Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Automatic enrolment and access to Medicash (one of the UK’s leading health cash plan providers), providing you with many services including reimbursements of routine dental treatment, optical, specialist consultations, and therapy treatments. Unlimited access to virtual GP & Private prescription service and health & Stress related helplines.
- Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the Department of Education Restaurant and Westminster Abbey with a plus-one guest.
- Apply for eligibility for an Eyecare voucher.
- Opportunity to join the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies.
ABOUT NATIONAL CHURCH INSTITUTIONS
The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.
We Include. You Belong.
Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background.
Living out our values in all that we do, we:
- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
We believe our commitment to belonging and inclusion fuels our progress and drives us forward. The NCIs are a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and of no faith. We want to encourage applications from a diverse group of people who share our values. Even if you have never thought about working for us before, if you have the skills and experience we’re looking for then we would like to hear from you.
Please note: You must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for the role.
