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Advertised

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPLICANTS

Branch/Division

Business Services Branch

Location

Force Headquarters - Central Park Complex

Grade

Grade B

Rank

Not applicable

Leadership Level

Peer Leader

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours

36.25 hours per week

Hours

Full time

Advertised Salary

£20,604 - £21,018 per annum plus 20% Shift Allowance & 14.62% Weekend Enhancement

Shift Allowances/Enhancements/ Additional Info

Shift Allowance
Weekend Enhancements
Uniform Required
Enhanced Vetting Required

Advert

Greater Manchester Police is one of the UK's largest police forces and is responsible for keeping people safe across more than 1,200 sq km. The Force covers the Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan areas.

GMPs officers and staff work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to keep almost three million people safe. The Force has 11 geographical policing areas known as Divisions that ensure it provides the best possible service to people who live, work and visit Greater Manchester.

The Business Support Services Branch provides a wide range of specialist support to GMP in order to enable the Force to provide the best possible service to the public of Greater Manchester. This ranges from cleaning, janitorial and a security guard service to procurement, transport and uniform services.

A team of 40 Security Officers provide a 24/7 security presence at four of our main sites. They are the first point of contact for staff and visitors and ensure security is maintained. Duties also include reception services, monitoring of CCTV, vehicle car park management and internal and external patrols.

You should be of smart appearance, reliable and with good communication skills. Able to work as part of a small team but also on your own on a 10 week shift rota with 20% shift allowance (night rate) and 14.62% weekend enhancement.

The successful candidate will be expected to assimilate safety, emergency, security training and follow methods and procedures. The role requires you to be able to show a flexible approach to work areas and to rostered schedules e.g. carry out reception duties according to frequency and requirement, communicate with supervisors and colleagues with regard to work schedules, safety/security matters and problems encountered is an essential requirement to the role.

You should be capable of recording/checking functions e.g. check ID's vehicles, persons, buildings.

Closing Date

31 Jan 2023

Recruitment Team Contact

gmprecruitment@gmp.police.uk

Other Information

Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details regarding the skills required to do this role. The Job Description has been signposted to indicate at which stage of the process each criteria will be tested.

Apprentices; you must be in the second half of your apprenticeship to be eligible to apply for this role.

Due to the Equality Act (2010) the sickness will not be checked until the conditional offer stage of the recruitment process and therefore candidates need to ensure that they have a good attendance record for the last 2 years for Staff and officers and for 12 months for apprentices.

The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person in all areas of employment, including recruitment. The Police Service welcomes people with disabilities and will do its best to make reasonable adjustments to the working arrangements and/ or the working environment providing it is possible to do so.

If you have a disability and you require support with your application, please let us know so we can consider and support you with any reasonable adjustments you may require. If you need any support completing this application please contact gmprecruitment@gmp.police.uk and the recruitment team will be happy to assist .

Should you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know during the selection process.

Please note that you will be required to provide an educational psychologist report in support of any adjustments.

Policing values are enshrined in the Code of Ethics (a copy of which can be found at https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Ethics/Ethics-home/Documents/Code_of_Ethics.pdf

Every person serving with the police service needs to adhere to these standards of professional behaviour. As an applicant to Greater Manchester Police, we expect that you will hold views and attitudes in line with the Code; that if you are successful in your application you will uphold the Code of Ethics by displaying the behaviours that the Code sets out; and that you will report any conduct of others that falls short of those standards. Any failure or apparent failure to uphold the Code of Ethics will be taken seriously. It will be looked into and in cases involving serious and/or repeated failings, criminal and/or misconduct proceedings may follow. With that in mind, you are reminded that you must not share any information relating to the recruitment and assessment process. Sharing of such information could result in criminal and/or misconduct proceedings.

Please note, all of our communication will be sent to you via the e-mail address you provide on your application form, therefore please ensure noreply@gmp-recruitment.co.uk is in your mail safe senders / safe recipients list to prevent our e-mails going into your junk mail.

The portal to upload Tattoos should not be used to upload CV’s or Expressions of Interest, if you do this your application will not be included in the recruitment process.

Minimum Age for Applications

18