Duty Officer

About the opportunity: To ensure delivery of smooth usage and running of the facilities and the activity programme through supervision of recreation assistants whilst on shift and customers using the Centre for Sport facilities (CFS / WFG / Hillside Gardens), through coordination of service delivery, ensuring Health & Safety regulations and normal operating procedures are implemented. As a senior member of the team on shift, you will be supporting the team to meet timescales and train colleagues in an approved training programme, ensuring they develop a working knowledge of all normal Operating Procedures and Emergency Action Plans in order to carry out duties, to prevent serious incidents or injuries from occurring

As well as maintaining a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the CFS facilities, the Duty officer will a administer First Aid or call for further assistance as appropriate.

Duty Officer will be asked to contribute and supervise the running of children’s activities, including holiday camps, courses and one off large scale events or competitions and also provide sickness and holiday cover for other duty officers and provide a flexible support.

The Full Time Duty Officer Role works a 4 week rolling Rota, details in the full advert on our website.

About you:  Are you a natural leader with motivational skills and able to support, guide and encourage others in the team to achieve individual and team objectives whilst demonstrating respect for others, fairness, equality, tolerance and openness.  Can you plan and organise to achieve results as well as prioritise? Do you enjoy delivering excellent customer service as well as great communication, and working in a team environment?  

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 36,000 students and 4,200 staff from right across the globe. In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including generous annual leave and pension schemes as well as opportunities for training and personal development.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian or racially minoritised  candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

Further information

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Helen Wickham on 0117 3282949 or email: helen3.wickham@use.ac.uk

This is a fulltime, permanent post, working 37 hours per week.

This post is not available on a job share basis.

Interviews are likely to take place in late July, early August.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success, this role is therefore campus based for all of your time.

The University’s normal practice is that new appointments will be made at the starting point of the grade.

This post requires enhanced DBS clearance.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

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