Id Job: 3172354
Full-time, permanent position with five hours contractual overtime per week.
The University of Warwick is a world-leading university, with the highest academic and research standards. We are constantly present in the UK and world top rankings, and our Community Safety team works proactively to provide a safe and welcoming environment for our whole community.
You will join the highly skilled and experienced Community Safety department as a Team Manager, with all-year-round responsibility for the safeguarding of people and property. You will have proven experience of effectively leading and managing a team of operational staff in a busy, fast-paced higher education environment.
You will have sound judgement, with a practical and common-sense approach, enabling you to resolve often challenging situations quickly, ensuring you provide the very best in customer service at each opportunity. You should have a positive and enthusiastic attitude to lead by example, ensuring a firm, fair and consistent approach towards managing people. Additionally, you must be able to communicate effectively with people of all ages and from all backgrounds. You should be professional, courteous, and smart at all times, possess the highest degree of integrity, and be capable of making sound decisions under pressure when directing colleagues. In return, you will be rewarded with a career where no two days are the same and where fresh ideas and personal development is positively encouraged.
Please note, as this role will involve driving University vehicles, to be covered by the University Vehicle Insurance Policy, you must be in possession of a full UK or EU equivalent licence, which has been in force for at least 1 year and have no serious driving convictions (any period of disqualification must have expired by at least 1 year).
You will be required to work a pattern of two days and two nights of 12 hours duration, followed by four days off, which equates to an average of 42 hours per week.
We offer an excellent salary that reflects the challenging nature of the role, and the professionalism we expect from our team. The salary range is between £37,876.00 to £43,111.00 depending on experience (made up from a base rate of £24,715.00, 5.5 hours of contractual overtime a week and a 25% shift allowance).
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group but, as women and members of ethnic minority groups are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups as we want our team to fully reflect the community we are entrusted to protect. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
Interview Date: TBC.
Job Description
The Team Managers work for a proportion of their duty hours without managerial support on campus. As the community safety team are required to support all stakeholders and individuals, the variety of areas where management of the community safety team has impact on the University community are broad. These include dealing with violent situations, responding to life-critical fire and security systems, fatalities, injuries, mental health issues, active crimes, victims of crime, and working closely with the Residential Life Team.
Shifts - 7am to 7pm and 7pm to 7am (4 on, 4 off).
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University of Warwick holds an Athena SWAN Silver award; a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. Further information about the work of the University in relation to Athena SWAN can be found at the following link: Athena Swan (warwick.ac.uk).
The University of Warwick is one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University alliance, whose aim is to become by 2025 an open, multicultural, confederated operation of connected campuses.
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