Tameside College
Site Assistant (Estates Team)
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Are you within an estates team looking for your next opportunity?
We’re looking to recruit a Site Assistant to join our busy Estates Team.
Here’s the standard bit:
We are looking for someone who can work collaboratively with the Estates Supervisor in carrying out routine and everyday maintenance across all sites. The successful candidate would be expected to actively fault find across college and report; To be aware of and support the extra responsibilities towards disabled staff and students; Removing snow from main entrances and to treat paths and steps with salt during periods of ice and snow; Collecting litter from collection points and removing to bin areas; To report blocked drains and gullies.
To undertake, if necessary, basic cleaning duties. This includes the daily cleaning of a specified area within the buildings to the standard defined in the cleaning specification, ensuring all cleaning equipment, when used, is properly cleaned and stored, assisting cleaning staff in the provision of cleaning cover during periods of staff shortage and to undertake the cleaning of special areas (if required) in ensuring that general surrounds of the buildings are tidy and litter free.
What you’ll need:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, resilient and a highly motivated individual, with a relevant L2 qualification and/or equivalent experience coupled with a thorough knowledge education and general maintenance as detailed in the specification. You will be a strong team player with excellent communication skills. The successful candidate for this role must also have a full driving license.
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Benefits:
- As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme and enjoy some really great benefit’s, i.e., Costa Coffee on site, Free on-site Gym at Beaufort Road, onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One to name but a few. Of course we offer retail discounts, cycle to work, great holiday allowances and a saving club via Manchester Credit Union.
About us:
Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of courses including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.
We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.
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Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.
Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
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Recruitment Agencies:
We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.
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