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INSPIRE ATA LIMITED - Level 2 Facilities Operative Apprenticeship with Canary Wharf College

Salary: £14,560 a year
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Apprenticeship
Hours: 35
Closing Date: Mon 13 Apr 2026 - 11:59 pm UTC
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INSPIRE ATA LIMITED - Level 2 Facilities Operative Apprenticeship with Canary Wharf College

Summary

Join our team as a Facilities Operative Apprentice, helping to keep our school clean, safe, and well-maintained. You’ll support site security, daily maintenance, and uphold high health and safety standards while promoting the welfare of all pupils and staff.

Annual wage: £14,560 a year
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Training course: Facilities services operative (level 2)

Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm and Friday, 8.00am - 3.30pm (1 hour lunch break)
35.0 hours a week

Possible start date: Monday 27 April 2026

Duration: 1 Year 6 Months

Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you'll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You'll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you'll do at work

Day to Day Site Management:

  • Be the first point of contact for all facilities issues on site
  • Manage the security and opening/closing of the building
  • Carry out all Facilities-related waste management ensuring compliance
  • Ensure the site remains clean of litter and unwanted debris
  • Liaise with cleaners and assist with any reactive cleaning requests that may require extra support
  • Carry out the full delivery of any school events or lettings, including planning, removal and reinstating furniture and other items
  • Arrange and remove furniture, fixtures or fittings as required
  • Key and fob management including site induction for staff
  • Liaise with teaching staff and ensure that all facilities for teaching and learning are as high quality as possible
  • Support with Break and Lunch duties

Site Maintenance:

  • Supervise all work completed by outside agencies on the site and grounds including their services, fittings and equipment, ensuring any inefficiency or ineffectiveness is managed
  • Arrange ad-hoc maintenance and repair of the buildings and regularly inspect internal and external fabric of the buildings, initiating reparation of defects and prioritising necessary repairs
  • Any major defects or development plans to be discussed with the Principal
  • Liaise with the Principal on all matters of security during the school day and out of hours
  • Maintain, decorate and repair Trust premises where such work is within the capabilities of the Facilities team

Servicing and Testing:

  • Carry out in house statutory testing as required and ensure all tests are logged and recorded
  • Oversee external tests or assessments when required

Goods and Ordering:

  • Completing the ordering for facilities resources and furniture including negotiating on price to ensure value for the Trust
  • Oversight of deliveries to the site as appropriate including receipting each delivery, processing invoices and delivering items to the relevant staff members
  • Investigate and follow up on missing orders and parts

Health and Safety:

  • Regularly inspect the school premises to identify any health and safety issues along with the need for repairs or improvements to the buildings or grounds
  • All health and safety matters need to be immediately brought to the attention of the Principal/Director of Health and Safety
  • To support the Director of Health & Safety in ensuring the Trust complies with its statutory obligations in regard to health and safety for the site
  • Any Other Duties:
  • Undertake any task to support the safe daily functioning of the Trust to support the academy as requested by the Principal/CEO

Main Duties:

General:

  • Supporting the whole school technical/administration team as necessary

Where you'll work

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

GLP TRAINING LTD

Your training course

Facilities services operative (level 2)

Your training plan

  • An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation
  • At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Physical fitness

Other requirements

Pre-employment checks. Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment the company completes digitalised right-to-work checks and DBS applications via an external provider - 'Matrix Screening'. The company also completes an internal online social media search, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.

About this company

Inspire ATA is an official Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, licenced by the Department for Education. Currently ranked 1st in the Rate My Apprenticeship Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK Award 2024-2025. Inspire ATA specialises in creating apprenticeship opportunities, where we recruit and employ the apprentice on behalf of our host clients, enabling us to offer additional support and a better experience for both the apprentice and the client as the experts in the industry. We arrange the most suitable and appropriate apprenticeship training from one of our partnered training providers. If you are successful in securing an apprenticeship with Inspire ATA, it is important to understand that Inspire ATA will be your employer and the apprenticeship placement will be a separate organisation that simply hosts you as an apprentice. As a Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, Inspire ATA performs an important role in developing the UK labour market and it is our responsibility to ensure that talent is recognised, developed, and matched with business needs, whatever the background of the individual, irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, religion or belief, relationship orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity and gender reassignment. We are proud of the diverse nature of our business and work with clients to ensure that all candidates are treated with courtesy and respect.

https://www.inspire-ata.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Potential full-time employment for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

INSPIRE ATA LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000022838.

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Closes on Monday 13 April 2026

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