Location
Brighton, East Sussex | United Kingdom
Job description
Brighton College is seeking to appoint Porters
Reporting to: Head of Porterage
Main purpose of the role: The purpose of this post is to work as part of the Facilities team to ensure that the appearance of the College, both inside and out, is of the highest standard. This includes room set-ups for school purposes and external functions.
General Duties and Responsibilities:
- Preparing rooms, buildings and outside areas as necessary for teaching, working, courses, meetings, exams, events and functions including table, chair and staging arrangements and the returning of these areas to their original use afterwards. This will involve some indoor cleaning.
- Distributing post, parcels, paper and all other deliveries, as well as moving furniture and other bulky items such as audio/lighting equipment and musical instruments around the College and associated buildings.
- Carrying out the external cleaning of all buildings at the College and associated properties in accordance with agreed schedules. The successful applicant will be expected to work in all weather conditions.
- Disposing of broken furniture and other items in skips, recycling paper and other items as per recycling policy and collecting and storing confidential waste ready for collection.
- Undertaking driving duties and carrying out maintenance checks of the Porterage van.
- Maintaining all equipment belonging to the department (this will involve completing minor non-technical maintenance work) and reporting all faults and breakages of equipment and buildings belonging to the College and associated properties, as per policy.
- Assisting with conducting fire drills and carrying out any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the College as required by the Head of Porterage.
- Any other reasonable management request.
Person Specification:
- The post holder must be physically fit, with the ability to bend, stretch, lean, reach and carry heavy, awkward items.
- Hold a current full driving licence.
- Flexible and able to adapt to change and co-operate with others.
- Able to take direction with a can-do attitude.
- A good team player and communicator.
- The ability to use own initiative and work effectively unsupervised, completing set tasks.
- Able to monitor event information displayed on notice boards.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to manage and organise own time and resources effectively, ensuring deadlines are met.
- Positive, polite and approachable with the with good interpersonal skills, enabling others to contribute positively to the work team.
- Ensure compliance with Health & Safety.
Hours of Work:
We are looking to appoint for the following shift of 07:00 - 16:00 (includes a one-hour unpaid lunchbreak). This role will work all year round. You will also be required to work additional hours to support Open Mornings and events for which you will be paid for.
Remuneration:
The rate of pay for this role will be £12.10 per hour.
Holidays:
23 days, plus bank holidays increasing to 28 days plus bank holidays after 2 years of service (of which 3 days need to be taken between Christmas and New Year when the College is closed)
Benefits:
- Complimentary lunch is provided.
- Free tickets to the College’s music, dance and drama performances.
- Job specific Learning and Development programme available to all employees.
- Life Cover is provided whilst working at Brighton College after successfully passing probation period.
- Brighton College provides a contributory pension scheme with matching contributions from the employer up to 9%, which all eligible employees will be automatically enrolled into within three months of commencement of employment.
- Perkbox: Employee* benefit and rewards platform which provides access to a wide range of discounts, employee benefits and wellbeing resources.
Wellbeing:
- Significantly subsidised gym membership for the School of Science and Sport is available, which includes access to yoga and Pilates classes and use of the gym and swimming pool.
- Healthy heart checks.
- Meditation sessions.
- Generous sickness policy.
- Access to books, magazines and DVDs from the College Library.
FACILITIES RECRUITMENT EVENT AT BRIGHTON COLLEGE
If you are interested in becoming a Cleaner or Porter for Brighton College join us for an informal chat over a coffee and pastry to find out more on:
FRIDAY 15th MARCH 2024 from 13:00 - 16:00
There is no need to book. We look forward to seeing you.
There will be a presentation at the following times: 13:30, 14:15, 15:00.
Address: Brighton College, Eastern Road, Brighton, BN2 0AL (There is no parking available onsite. Easily accessible by local buses).
For enquiries about the application process or the drop-in event please email:
[email protected] Safeguarding and Equal Opportunities:
Brighton College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to successfully completing pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure, the receipt of satisfactory references, the College’s pre-employment medical questionnaire, relevant original ID documentation and examination certificates. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. The College is committed to ensuring that the recruitment and selection of staff is conducted in a manner that is systematic, efficient and effective and promotes equality of opportunity. Our full equal opportunities policy is available on the ‘Careers’ page of our website.
For full details of the role please see the Job Profile Document on our website.
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£12.1 per hour
