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Vacancy Id: 10879

College / Service: Professional Services and Operations

Location: CCI - Peckham Road, London UK

Salary: £28,813 - £32,624 per annum, pro rata

Contract: Fixed Term

Term: Part time – 28 hours per week

Apply by: 13 May 2024 at 23:55

 

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The opportunity

University of the Arts London is looking for two part-time Residence Assistants to join us on a part-time temporary basis for two months, with the possibility of becoming permanent. The successful candidate will work 28 hours per week, on Saturday and Sunday and either Friday or Monday. This position entails maintaining a safe and secure environment for students, guests, contractors, and colleagues within their Halls of Residence. Collaborating with the Senior Residence Assistant, you will initially cover five buildings on rotation, within Camberwell. 

You will be supporting the Senior Residence Assistant in a variety of operational activities, such as:

  • Undertaking daily inspections of premises (to include lighting, heating, fire extinguishers) against a set checklist, reporting findings to the Residence Manager.
  • Monitoring the CCTV system and maintain an effective key register/key issue control system.
  • Ensuring the site is clean, safe and secure by undertaking regular patrols of all internal & external areas.
  • Undertaking all cleaning duties of communal areas and external grounds.
  • Deep cleaning ground floor windows, doors, external surfaces and rooms when necessary and ensuring the bin stores are tidy, and that the bins are rotated and collected on time so they are accessible to residents.
  • Assisting in a number of maintenance tasks or responsibilities.
  • Carrying out first-line diagnostic maintenance checks, conducting low-level repairs & handyman jobs primarily in Plumbing, Carpentry, Painting and Decorating and assisting the Residence Manager.
  • Assisting in the monitoring and managing of supplies and equipment required for cleaning and maintenance.
  • Processing all incoming and outgoing deliveries including the recording and safe porterage within and between designated properties.
  • Any other duties that may occur.

About you

This is a hands-on role. To be considered for a possible interview, you must possess:

  • Relevant qualifications and equivalent experience.
  • Familiarity with CCTV software management systems including reviewing footage and printing still images.
  • Familiarity with key card security access systems.
  • An appreciation of pastoral care support and identify safeguarding support in dealing with student welfare.
  • Experience of security and mail handling operations.
  • Experience of customer facing facilities management services.
  • Experience of understanding COSSH requirements for cleaning.
  • Demonstrable understanding providing low level maintenance/handyman primarily in Plumbing, Carpentry, Painting and Decorating.
  • Strong communication skills, communicating effectively orally, in writing and/or using visual media.

Ritz Recruitment is acting as an employment agency advisor to UAL on this appointment process.

Closing date: Monday 13 May 2024 at 23:55.

For further details, including a candidate pack, job description, person specification and information on how to apply, please visit Ritz Recruitment’s jobs page.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

Vacancy Id: 10879

College / Service: Professional Services and Operations

Location: CCI - Peckham Road, London UK

Salary: £28,813 - £32,624 per annum, pro rata

Contract: Fixed Term

Term: Part time – 28 hours per week

Apply by: 13 May 2024 at 23:55

 

Please read through our FAQs page before applying.
A full copy of the job advert along with other information (such as interviews date, hiring process etc) is available by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button below.

Stonewall Gold Employer
Living Wage Employer
Disability Confident Committed
Stonewall Diversity Champion

Race Equality Charter

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