Facilities Support

About Us

Psicon is a specialist neurodevelopmental service working collaboratively with various NHS trusts to provide autism and ADHD assessments. We are an independent organisation, but most of our work is for the NHS, whom we are proud to support. Psicon is committed to offering the best psychological support and healthcare available. We take an innovative approach to the delivery of our services and ensure that they are of the highest standards in the industry.

About The Role

We are seeking a skilled Facilities Assistant to join our team. As a Facilities Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation and maintenance of our facilities by working with the Estates and H&S Manager to make sure that the building is in the best condition for the employees who work there and is H&S compliant.

Principle duties and responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Administrative duties, such as answering phone calls and calling out for contractors if the building needs repairing.
• Maintaining stock is also part of your job role. You may have to purchase orders and help with renovations to support the maintenance operatives. Room moves, staff moves and making up furniture.
• Assisting with an issue with IT or the building, you will be contacted to organise the repair or the maintenance of the issue. For example, you may need to order a new printer, or call a specialist in to fix it.
• Security, you will be responsible for managing the access to the building. You could be issuing access keys, a swipe system or any other security systems the business may have.
• Calling contractors for maintenance of the facilities of the building such as the lighting, smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, heating, air conditioning, hygiene and waste disposal. Any building requirements as needed.
• You may also have to carry out a risk assessment on these facilities and carry out repairs if they are not up to standard (full training will be given).
  
  

Person Specification

• Full driving license is essential.
• Experience of working in an administrative or similar facilities role.
• Experience of conducting risk assessment is desired or willingness to learn.
  
  

Working at Psicon

We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves in providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals of;

• The best possible customer service.
• The most efficient and effective clinical work.
• A thriving and engaged workforce.
• A truly inclusive organisation.
  
  

Benefits Include

• Enhanced annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
• Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
• Well-being days.
• Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Birthday lie in.
• Free breakfast, including 'pastry Mondays'.
• Funded social events.
• Staff well-being bursary scheme.
  
  

Additional Information / Contacting Us

• For further information please email [email protected] or call the Psicon Recruitment Team on 01227 202155 for more information.
• Should you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will do our best to support you.
• Please note, Psicon operate a ‘safer recruitment’ policy and will require candidates to undergo full referencing (covering a 3-year period), an enhanced DBS check, provide evidence of up-to-date mandatory training, the right to live and work in the UK.