College Community Officer

• Locations

  Basingstoke

• Salary

  £25,900.21 per annum

• Sector

  Construction, Property & Engineering

• Type

  Permanent

Student Experience Department

Community Officer

0.8559 FTE (37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year)

£25,900.21 per annum

The main purpose of this post is to ensure a safe, secure and welcoming environment for staff, students and college visitors as well as support and inspire students to comply with the respect agreement therefore achieving a high standard of behaviour.

This role will enable students to develop a sense of ownership as the officer aims to take a proactive approach to support students who display challenging behaviours. The successful candidate will have experience of working with a range of people, excellent communication skills and skilled at engaging with young people. Up-to-date First aid qualification would be desirable.

Main duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Campus security

• Undertake patrols of campus, paying particular attention to student communal areas

• Patrol of local area in pro-active approach to tackle anti-social behaviour

• Support duty managers as and when required with reported incidents

• Challenging inappropriate behaviour

Additional Responsibilities:

• Help manage vehicles coming to site

• Support Estate team as appropriate

• Perform administrative tasks with the scale of the post

• Support Main Reception

• Be part of the Safeguarding team

We will start to review applications 7 days after the vacancy is advertised. Interviews will be arranged as and when after this date, so please do not delay in applying.

Additional information

– Pension scheme: Peoples Pension

– This is a Term Time role, which incorporates generous annual leave, bank holidays (plus Christmas closure.) Retail Benefits scheme, free onsite parking, refectory/coffee shop, Gym and staff wellbeing day.

– DBS check is payable by candidate.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the College 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.

Basingstoke College of Technology is a leading and well-respected further education college situated in North Hampshire, easily accessible and with excellent transport links to surrounding areas. We provide a wide range of technical training courses, have an extensive apprenticeship programme and an increasing portfolio of Higher Education courses.

Ofsted has judged as Outstanding our students’ Personal Development and their Behaviour and Attitudes. Adult provision was also judged to be Outstanding and the college was awarded the highest rating of ‘Strong’ for its contribution to meeting the skills need in the region. Furthermore, the college has maintained Outstanding financial health for many years and is now one of the most financially secure FE colleges in the country.

We use this financial advantage to ensure our staff are competitively remunerated, use the latest industry standard equipment and work in a pleasant and rewarding environment.