Estates and Facilities Assistant - Full-time

The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust (Aquila)

• Ref:KCC-F33-51-S
• Posted:19/12/2025
• Pay:APLC (£26,373 - £30,872)
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:11/01/2026 at 23:00
• Interviews:TBC

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About the Role

We are seeking a proactive and organised Estates and Facilities Assistant to join our Central Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring our schools provide safe, well maintained learning environments.

Reporting to the Head of Estates and Facilities, you will provide administrative and operational support across estates, facilities, and health & safety. You will work closely with school site teams, contractors, and compliance partners to maintain accurate records, monitor statutory compliance, and support the delivery of planned maintenance and improvement projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain Trust wide asset registers and compliance documentation
• Support planned maintenance schedules, lifecycle works and capital programmes
• Assist with procurement, contractor coordination and minor works scheduling
• Monitor health & safety compliance, including audits, training and incident reporting
• Provide practical support to school site teams and attend site manager meetings
• Prepare reports, dashboards and materials for audits and meetings

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• Organised and detail focused, with excellent record-keeping skills
• Proactive and solution oriented, able to manage multiple priorities
• A strong communicator with good IT skills (Microsoft Office 365)
• Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• NEBOSH or IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
• Experience supporting estates/facilities compliance across multi-site environments.
• Knowledge of statutory compliance requirements (FRA, EICR, LOLER, L8, gas safety).
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Information about the trust

Through inclusive and innovative practice we nurture through the Aquila family to provide exceptional learning experiences enriching the lives of all in our unique communities.

We aspire to excellence; to secure the best possible outcomes for children and young people, enabling them to fulfil their potential and make a worthwhile contribution to our diverse, dynamic society.

The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust is an established and highly successful Multi-Academy Trust currently consisting of primary schools and expecting to grow over the coming years.

The Trust offers: • outstanding mentoring and coaching • full induction programme for all new staff • excellent professional development opportunities • an enviable track record of career progression • collaborative working in a supportive team environment

We are committed to ensuring our academies work together, sharing their strengths, to provide a great education for every pupil. We believe learning must be engaging and relevant and develop the whole child. Our academies design their coverage of the curriculum to provide challenging and exciting learning experiences in a caring and nurturing environment which is based on our strong values. Our academies value every individual and celebrate differences through their culture of mutual trust and shared values.

We want to deliver and develop best practice through learning together and engaging with action research with Canterbury Christ Church University. We want our academies to serve their local communities through links with churches, each other and to develop wider networks enabling staff and pupils to flourish. Through developing leadership at all levels we want the pupils in our academies to become happy, successful, well rounded individuals who develop into lifelong learners.

We have an English Hub within our MAT.

The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all trustees, staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Criminal Record Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service along with other relevant employment checks, including overseas criminal background checks, where applicable. All new trustees, employees and volunteers will be required to undertake safeguarding training on induction which will be regularly updated in line with statutory guidance.

Job Contact Information

• Name:HR Manager
• Address:Suites 19 & 20,
  Motis Business Centre,
  Cheriton High Street,
  Folkestone,
  Kent,
  CT19 4QJ
• Telephone: 01303 905100
• Email: hr@aquilatrust.co.uk

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