Facilities Administrator

Sidcup, Kent
Avenues Group

Avenues is a community where people smile, laugh, grow and achieve great things.

We are pleased to offer a new opportunity for a Facilities Administrator to join our Facilities team based at our Head Office in Sidcup working 15 hours per week working on a Tuesday and Thursday.

In this role you will provide an efficient, effective, and versatile administrative support service to the facilities management function.

• Assist in the day-to-day running of head office that includes Office management systems and services e.g. telephone, emails and post management, health and safety, and ensuring the security of the building.
• Ordering of office stationery and office supplies.
• Provide administrative support to the Group Facilities Manager for key tasks.
• Management of Facility service contracts, including booking site appointments, liaison with contracts to ensure services provided are planned according to need.

• Management, and maintenance of Compliance register to evidence Avenues adherence to statutory requirements.
• Reconciliation of credit card payments.
• Management of council tax payments.
• Commercial & Clinical waste reviews.
• Ad-hoc requests from Group Facilities Manager.

Our ideal candidate looks like this!

• Experience in a Facilities Administrator role, Office Administrator or similar role
• Experience of working in a team and management of service contracts.
• Ability to use of MS teams, MS Office, and other IT based administrative systems
• Understanding of learning disability and autism, acquired brain injury, and social care.
• To be able to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation and with external agencies.
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritise workload and meet deadlines.

For full details please see the attached role profile.

Your values should match ours:

Respect: We treat people as we would wish to be treated ourselves.

Excellence: We don’t settle for okay, we are determined to achieve more.

Integrity: We do the right thing, even if it takes more time and effort.

Pride: The work we do is something we want to tell others we are part of.

Benefits you can expect!

• £24,720 per annum (pro rata)
• Flexible Working including working from home.
• 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing after to 2 years’ service and after 5 years’ service.
• Access to high quality training that supports your career development.
• Free and confidential 24/7 access to the health portal and employee assistance programme.
• Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.
• Recommend a friend scheme.
• And more.

About us:

Avenues Group is a specialist charity provider of supported living, residential care and outreach services for people with autism, learning disability and complex needs. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to be an active citizen and engaged in the community where they live.

We encourage our central services employees to really get to know the organisation and to spend time visiting services, meeting people we support, their families and our support staff.

As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re driven by strong ethics, and invest everything back into our staff and the people we support.?

You’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its values at all levels, making sure the people we support are at the forefront of our decisions.

As part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident Scheme”, candidates who declare a disability, and meet the key criteria for this role, will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview stage.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity – we are looking forward to hearing from you today!

We reserve the right to close this role earlier than stated.