AddressLocation of Role: Maidstone
Advert Closing Date: 25/01/2024
Starting Salary: £21,657.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Part Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Shift not 24/7
Weekend/Evening Working: Yes
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Services Assistant (Night Security) within the Business Services Team currently based at Kent Police College, Maidstone. This is offered as 32 hours a week, evenings, nights and weekends on a rotating shift pattern.
The purpose of the role is to maintain security of the Kent Police College site outside of daytime working hours, managing access, resolving minor problems and reporting larger issues onwards.
Additionally, you will be the welcome face of Kent Police Reception when booking guests into the accommodation block. Completing a registration system, issuing keys, allocating parking permits and giving a full brief on health & safety in the college to ensure our guests feel safe, looked after and ready to enjoy their learning experience.
The successful candidate will be able to provide evidence of the following:
Experience in reception/security duties
Good organisational skills
Good customer service skills
Confident as a lone worker
You must be self-motivated with a flexible approach, and able/willing to work without supervision.
A general awareness of Health & Safety legislation and GDPR would be desirable, however training will be given.
Finally, previous experience of using a computer software packages including Microsoft products and email is required.
For further information about this role, please contact Jude Davies – Central Business Services Team Leader on 01622 6245382 or 194538.
Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £23,646.00.
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Your application is shortlisted on the content provided within the 'reason for application' section, which is limited to 9000 characters. Within your answer please refer to the criteria stated in this job advert and include any experience, skills and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for the role. Please ensure you provide as much detail as possible as insufficient information may mean that you do not meet the shortlisting criteria.
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Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.
Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.
This post is open to British Citizens, members of the EC or other states in the European Economic Area. If you are a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national, you must be a resident in the UK free of restrictions and with indefinite leave to remain in the UK. All applicants must have lived in the UK continuously for the past three years.
Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.
