COMM ENT 5495 G2 - Assistant Facilities Officer (600367)

Job Description ACTUAL CLOSING DATE: Applications must be received by Tuesday 15 September 2026 at 11:55pm.

Location: Council Offices, Floor 7, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA

Hours: 37 hours per week

Work Pattern: Monday - Thursday 8am - 4.30pm and Friday 8am - 4pm

Salary: £33,027 - £33,432 annual salary

Community and Enterprise resources are looking to appoint Assistant Facilities Officers to the Menu Development and Service Development areas of their Facilities team.

Main accountabilities are to assist the Facility Officer in the promotion and development of Facilities Services. This will include assisting and contributing to service projects, including expansion of free school meals, menu development and adapted diets. Provide advice, guidance and support to Facilities Assistants within various geographical areas to ensure services are delivered to meet organisational and legislative requirements.

Main Duties:

• To assist the Facility Officer in the management of staff within various Geographical Areas.
• To Ensure compliance with Internal Audit cash handling procedures within schools by carrying out full cash audit including checking the completion of all financial paperwork and operating procedures.
• To carry out catering, cleaning and janitorial audits including checking compliance with organisational and legislative requirements. Ensuring immediate actions are verified and reporting findings to Facility Officer.
• To assist the Menu Development Team with ensuring that the Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Regulations 2020 are adhered to including meeting criteria around Adapted Diets.
• To Liaise with client groups for individual requests for adapted diets. Attend pupil and parent councils, PTA, for feedback on cleaning, janitorial and catering services
• Participate in schools working groups such as health promoting groups, eco school groups and ensure that front line staff provides acceptable standards of customer care.
• To Assist Facility Officer with Service Developments including Digital Transformation of service and expansion of free school meals and school meal uptake.

Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale, you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.

Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire's Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.

Legislative Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Scotland Act 2020.

This post is considered a Regulated Role with Children, in respect of the Disclosure Scotland Act 2020. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made.

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Overseas Criminal Records Check

An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of 12 months in the past 10 years.

Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Record Check. The check must be translated into English and should come from the police, judicial authority, government department or home embassy of the country or countries concerned. The check must include an official statement confirming that the applicant does not have any history of or pending criminal record proceedings. Checks may be carried out to authenticate the documents provided.

Equal Opportunities and Inclusion statement

The Council is committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion in its workforce. Therefore, we welcome applications from all sectors of the community, including under-represented groups within our workforce. We are keen to receive applications from candidates who have a disability, who are from a care experienced background, who are from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, from a military service background and from those who are new Scots.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile for this position.

As proud holders of the UK Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, the Council is also committed to supporting members of the armed forces community, including service leavers, veterans, reservists and their families. In line with this commitment, service leavers, their close family members, veterans and reservists will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile.

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council, you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
• To increase the value of their pension pot, Local Government Employees can opt to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme.
• Up to 33 days annual leave
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave enhanced leave.
• Employee Discounts - including discounts at the cinema.
• Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)

About Us

South Lanarkshire Council is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas, market towns such as Lanark, Strathaven and Carluke, the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town.

Our vision is for South Lanarkshire as set out in our Economic Strategy is to have one of the strongest and most dynamic economies in Scotland, where businesses, communities, and residents achieve their full potential and prosper.

We will achieve this through three key interrelated themes:

• People - skills, learning and employability
• Place - physical infrastructure and place
• Business - business development and growth