Buildings and Maintenance Technician

Wingrave, England, United Kingdom

5/21/2025

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Buildings and Maintenance Technician

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Job reference: 004753

Salary: £27,005

Closing date: 20/06/2025

Location: Wingrave

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Job Description

Would you like your building & maintenance skills to make a real difference in the lives of children with learning disabilities and autism?

MacIntyre School is a specialist residential school nestled in the beautiful rural surroundings of Wingrave. We provide education for children and young people with autism and learning disabilities.

Full-time

As our Buildings and Maintenance Technician, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the safety, functionality, and beauty of our school environment. Your work will directly impact the well-being and daily experiences of our students and staff, ensuring that our school remains a safe, welcoming, and inspiring place to learn and grow.

You will carry out activities such as ground maintenance, general repairs and decorating, meeting the requirements of regulatory bodies and ensuring compliance. You will use your initiative and show flexibility to meet the changing needs of the site.

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About You

Competent at basic building repairs and maintenance and ground maintenance.

Experience in the use of small industrial/electrical/mechanical equipment

Knowledge of basic health and safety legislation and a understanding of site security issues

Day-to-day experience of supervising contractors

Able to operate electrical/mechanical systems

Able to prioritise, take responsibility and work on own initiative

Self-motivated, flexible and committed to high standards

Sensitive to the needs of people with learning difficulties,and an attitude towards others based on respect, dignity and equality.

Hold a clean manual driving licence and be able to drive a van

About Us

MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

At our residential school in Wingrave, we provide education and support to children and young people aged 11 to 19.

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
  
  

How To Apply

If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.

Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call us 01908 357 016 and we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.

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