Facilities Manager

Would you like your skills as a facilities professional 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.

As our Facilities Manager, 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.

We are seeking someone who not only has the skills and experience to manage our facilities effectively but also shares our values of compassion, respect, and dedication to making a positive difference in the lives of children with disabilities.

If you are a proactive, solutions-oriented individual who is passionate about creating supportive environments for children with special needs, we would love to hear from you.

You will have experience in the management and undertaking of building maintenance and repairs. You will be need a knowledge of relevant legislation including

• COSH


• Electricity at Work


• Safe Systems at Work


• Manual Handling,


• Safe use of Hazardous substances


• Health & Safety


You will need experience of report writing and planning a schedule of work and producing associated Risk Assessments.

Cost control is a key part of the role so you will need experience of controlling budgets. Experience of managing and negotiating with external contractors is essential.

Hold a full clean driving license (Minimum of 1 year).

Desirable :

2 years previous experience in a similar position within a residential school, or similar setting.

A current IOSH qualification.

Proven project management experience.

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., 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.

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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)