Facilities Manager

Facilities Manager

Location: Richard House Children's Hospice, Richard House Drive, E16 3RG
Salary: £43,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours (Monday-Friday on site, with potential out of hours work for emergencies)
Department: Facilities
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

Are you looking for a challenge?

Richard House is seeking an experienced Facilities Manager who can deliver a safe, effective and engaging working environment?

This is a great opportunity to take a leading role in maintaining and developing our buildings, grounds and facilities. We are looking for a successful Facilities Manager with up to date knowledge of health and safety regulations. You will be an enthusiastic self-starter, with a can-do attitude, who can juggle and manage a varied workload as well as having excellent communication and relationship management skills.

You will possess a clean driving licence, as you will have access to the Richard House Van.

Previous experience, knowledge and understanding of both the voluntary and healthcare sectors is an advantage.

Richard House is committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

We practice a diverse and inclusive recruitment process that ensures equal opportunity for all we work with, irrespective of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender.

As an organisation, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and will ensure measures are met when required, to allow a fair process throughout.

Richard House is not authorised to sponsor overseas workers; you will need to have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Interviews scheduled for 6th & 11th March 2025.

Benefits: Annual holiday allowance of 27 days, increasing to 29 days after five years' service, Pension scheme offering 7% employer's and 3% employee's contribution, Option to continue existing NHS pension (subject to meeting criteria)Employee assistance programme, Death in service scheme, Occupational sick pay scheme, Enhanced maternity pay scheme, Flexible working, A supportive team with a commitment to CPD, Unsocial hours benefit (certain Care positions only)

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