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Porter
Job Posted: 2 days ago
Salary: £ 28,080 - 28,080 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Kemp Town
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Brighton College are seeking to appoint a Porter on a full-time, permanent basis.
Main Purpose of the Role: 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, College events and external functions. The ideal candidate should be a strong team player, physically fit and capable of manual handling such as lifting large furniture and setting up multiple events.
Porter General Duties and Responsibilities
Setting up rooms, buildings, and outdoor areas as needed for teaching, meetings, exams, events, and functions, including arranging tables, chairs, staging and movement of audio/lighting equipment and musical instruments throughout the College and associated buildings. This will include some indoor cleaning.
Handling the distribution of mail.
Performing external cleaning of all College buildings and related properties according to established schedules. The successful applicant should be prepared to work in all weather conditions.
Disposing of damaged furniture and other items in skips, recycling paper and other materials in line with the recycling policy and collecting and storing confidential waste for collection.
Undertaking driving duties and conducting maintenance checks on the Porterage van.
Maintaining department equipment (including minor non-technical repairs) and reporting any faults or damages to College equipment and buildings, in accordance with policy.
Supporting fire drills and assisting with other tasks to ensure the efficient operation of the College, as directed by the Head of Porterage.
Any other reasonable management requests.Person Specifications
Essential criteria:
Must be physically fit and able to complete consistent manual handling.
Flexible and able to adapt to change and co-operate with others.
Able to take direction with a proactive attitude.
A good team player and communicator.
Able 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.
Ensure compliance with Health & Safety regulations.
Positive, polite, and approachable with good interpersonal skills enabling others to contribute positively to the work team.Desirable criteria:
Possess a full, clean UK driving
licence.
Experience handling large functions and setting up a range of different equipment.Porter Hours of Work
40 hours per week (Monday to Friday) on a two shift rota system between the hours of 7.00am and 7.00pm. There may be occasional requirements to work outside of regular working hours, including weekends, to support events such as Open Mornings, for which overtime will be provided.
Remuneration
The salary for this role is £28,080 per annum.
Holidays
23 days, plus bank holidays increasing to 28 days plus bank holidays after 2 years of service.
Porter Benefits
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.
Life Cover is provided whilst working at Brighton College after successfully passing probation period.
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.
Employee benefit and discount platform.Wellbeing
Subsidised gym membership for the School of Science and Sport is available, which includes access to yoga and pilates classes, meditation sessions and use of the gym and swimming pool.
Personalised health and wellbeing consultations.
Generous sickness policy.
Access to books and magazines from the College Library.
Comprehensive wellbeing package.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 websiteBefore You Apply
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