College Carpenter (part time)

Based in the heart of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College is looking to appoint a part time College Carpenter to join our busy, friendly Maintenance team, providing a first-class service for our college community.

The successful candidate will work as part of a team engaged in the upkeep and maintenance of the College estate.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have the ability to work independently and take ownership for managing a busy workload
• Have a sound knowledge of health and safety requirements and be able to apply this in practice
• Hold a C&G Carpentry & Joinery, NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification
• Hold a valid driving licence sufficient to drive the College’s manual van.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Maintaining and undertaking general repairs to joinery, woodwork and ironmongery components including door closers, locks, latches, window fittings etc. throughout the College building stock.
• Responding to carpentry, joinery and general building maintenance related defect reports as required; carrying out initial investigation and carry out repairs/works.
• Undertaking fire door inspections and make repairs or adjustments as necessary.
• Ensuring all work is carried out with due regard to the health and Safety at Work Act, the College Health & Safety Policy and all relevant current health and safety legislation.
• Undertaking checks and testing in accordance with relevant legislation and keep appropriate records.
• Monitoring, and keeping up to date, the maintenance ticketing system, taking ownership for relevant job tickets and undertaking works within specified time frames.
• Driving the College van, a current driving licence is required for this.
• Working from ladders, steps and scaffolds as required.

Full details of this role can be found here in the job description.

 Employment Benefits include:

• Part time salary based on an FTE £28,000 – £30,000 depending on skills and experience (actual salary in the region of £11,200 -  £12,000).
• Part time hours of 15 per week ideally to be worked across 2 days (full time hours of work are 37.5 per week).
• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year, in addition to 8 Public Holidays (pro rata for part-time employees).
• A free lunch in the College Dining Hall on working days.
• Generous defined contribution pension provision with salary exchange arrangements.
• Access to the College’s Cycle to Work voucher scheme.
• Opportunities for training and development.
• A range of family friendly benefits, including generous maternity and paternity benefits above statutory requirements.
• Free use of a small on-site gym.
• Access to purchase the College’s private Health Care scheme.
• Access to staff wellbeing and employee assistance support.
• Free life assurance (death in service benefit) with probate and bereavement support.

This is a job share role and the post holder will be required to work 2 days per week (actual days to be negotiated).

The post holder will be subject to a 6 month probation period. 

Application process:

In order to apply, please submit a completed application form and send it along with a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the role and what week days you would be able to work and if there is any flexibility around those. 

Please also complete and submit a completed Equality and Diversity monitoring form.  

All documents should be emailed to: recruitment@caths.cam.ac.uk

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Friday 13 January 2023.