Facilities Support Coordinator

DescriptionWe are actively recruiting Facilities Support Officers on behalf of our client’ MTC, to join their team and become a part of their growth and success at Manston’s short-term holding facility run by the UK Home Office in Kent.
This is an amazing opportunity for those that are looking for a chance to change career and be given the training, support and guidance to become fully competent within your new role.
This role gives great variation of duties, which you will be responsible for, which include:
* Gate duties: ensuring the secure entry and exit of staff, visitors, and vehicles to the centre, carrying out searches of staff, detainees, visitors, contractors and vehicles
Issue and collect staff keys / radios
* Contractor Escorts: be responsible for identifying and escorting vehicles and contractors within the short-term holding facility.
* External and internal patrols: follow set routes to actively patrol areas within the RHR and report any detainee activity the is suspicious or outside of RHR rules.
* Visits: identify and process visitors on their arrival, escorting them to and from the designated areas; ensure all visitors both domestic and official are appropriately searched and their details are collated
* Night Duties: assist Detention Custody Officers with night state operations.
* Information Desk/ Reception: assist in supporting appropriate tasks within reception ensuring that any detainee queries and property are processed appropriately; Collate all relevant documentation for the Reception/Property process; Search detainee property and parcels accepted in Reception.
* Detainee supervision: assist officers with guiding service users around the centre.
* Dining / Activities: undertake detainee supervision supporting with the cleanliness and tidiness of the area and promoting service user responsibility for keeping areas clean
Serve food from kitchens to service users and assist with clear-up and recycling within the dining area.
* Assist with general clear-up task at the direction of senior officers.
* Audit and manage stock items [laundry, snacks etc].
Skills:
* Experience of caring for others and working with vulnerable people is desirable
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential
* Good time management and multitasking skills
* Moderate computer skills are essential [we use Microsoft packages]
* Accuracy and attention to detail will be paramount
* A flexible approach and being adaptable to change
* A full, valid driving licence is desirable but not essential
Additional information:
Our Client is offering full training and support and a fantastic opportunity to join their team and develop the knowledge and skills you need to be successful within your role.
They are paying an annual salary of £25,584, which equates to £12.30 per hour, on an average of 40 hours per week.
Your shift patterns work on a rolling rota, and are built up of a combination of the following:
Early shift: 07:30 to 16:00
Late shift: 14:00 to 22:30
A shift: 08:00 to 22:00
Night shift: 20:00 to 08:00
MTC offer a great range of benefits which includes but are not limited to:
* Company pension
* Cycle to work Scheme
* Life Assurance
* Enhanced annual leave scheme
* Wellbeing days
* Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
* Occupational sick pay
* Mentor programmes
If you are successful you will enrol on an Initial Training Course, which lasts 2 weeks and starts on the first day of your employment.
All successful offers are subject to CTC clearance
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Manston, Kent
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