Overview
Part Time ACL Business Operations Assistant
Permanent, Part Time
£25,081 per annum, full time equivalent
Location: Basildon
Closing Date: Sunday 26th October 2025 at 11.59pm
Please note that this opportunity is being offered on a Part Time basis, offering 22.5 hours per week covering the following days and times.
- Tuesday: 08:00 – 16:00 (including half hour lunch break)
- Wednesday: 10:30 – 18:30 (including half hour lunch break)
- Thursday: 08:30 – 16:30 (including half hour lunch break)
The actual earnings for the 22.5 hours per week, for the year are £15,251.96 per annum.
Interview Date: Wednesday 5th or Friday 7th November 2025.
The Opportunity
Adult Community Learning (ACL) is ECC’s provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents.
ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter or progress within the workplace, or gain skills to enhance life chances. The service focuses many of its programmes and activities on the hardest to reach communities within Essex. ACL learners have access to a diverse range of accredited and non-accredited courses which encourage creativity, healthy lifestyles, social inclusion and engagement.
The Premises Assistant will carry out effective caretaking and cleaning of the centre, taking responsibility for monitoring Health and Safety requirements and ensuring that these are met.
Accountabilities
- Contribute to the security of and access to the site, locking and unlocking buildings, acting as key-holder responding to calls outside normal working hours, setting, checking and turning off alarms.
- Undertake caretaking and cleaning to ensure an efficient and effective service is provided for staff, learners and customers. Ensure cleaning standards are met in accordance with specifications.
- Responsible for preventing, as far as possible, unauthorised access to the site and unauthorised parking of vehicles, within appropriate policies and codes of practice.
- Maintain an inventory of the centre’s equipment, updating and reviewing on an annual basis. Test and check functioning of electrical equipment.
- Undertake Health and Safety Risk Assessments, including external premises, ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to. Organise periodic emergency evacuation of premises in line with Health and Safety codes of practice. Monitor systems and equipment ensuring they meet health and safety requirements.
- Monitor contractors and personnel working on the site, ensuring work is carried out in accordance with specification and compliant with health and safety procedures.
- Maintain grounds, including mowing and clearing of weeds, ensure all hard areas and paths are free from litter and drains and gullies are free flowing and clean. Clear snow paths and provide access to premises in all weathers.
- Contribute to the management of stock, ordering and delivery of cleaning materials, other supplies, materials and goods.
- Undertake first line repairs and maintenance, as set out in the maintenance plan, ensuring the most effective use of resources.
- Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
The Experience You Will Bring
Essential:
- Educated to level 2 (GCSE) or equivalent by experience.
- Proven customer service skills.
- Good communication skills and confident with face to face, phone, email, and remote interactions.
- Experience from customer facing roles.
Desirable:
- Able to work in a team and work under pressure.
- Good working knowledge of IT and in particular Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook.
- Requirement to travel between centres as and when needed – driving license is an advantage but not essential.
