Estates Security & Services Assistant
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £25,248 to £27,300 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 July 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Exeter College |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
What? No night shifts and no weekend work? And 43 days’ paid holiday? That’s right.
We’re looking for someone who’s helpful, great at customer service and really cares about doing a good job. Got some relevant experience in manual or security work? Great, we’ll teach you the rest…
We’ve recently become a Sunday Times Best Place to Work. Join the team responsible for keeping our college environment safe and smooth-running. This’ll include:
-Locking and unlocking buildings
-Walking around our sites, being a visible presence
-Using surveillance equipment
-Working with fire alarms and intruder alarms
-Moving furniture and equipment for open events
-Sorting and delivering post
-Minor repairs and maintenance
-Setting up classrooms for exams
…all with a cheerful, flexible, can-do attitude.
Shifts are 7am - 2.30pm and 2.30pm - 10pm (Monday- Friday), alternating each week. Overtime is available and we’ll provide your uniform plus free on-site parking. A full driving license is essential (you’ll need to drive a college vehicle).
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Steve Scutchings: stevenscutchings@exe-coll.ac.uk / 01392 400498 / 07523864967
*salary includes £1,500 shift allowance.
Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more.
And see what our staff have to say here.
Benefits
We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page.
Applying for the role
If you’re reading this on our website, click on the apply button, below.
If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 20th July 2025 at midnight.
Interviews will be held in Exeter on 29th July 2025
No CVs or agencies please.
Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.
We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.
*the paid holidays quoted include at least 7 Christmas closure days and 8 bank holidays
We’re looking for someone who’s helpful, great at customer service and really cares about doing a good job. Got some relevant experience in manual or security work? Great, we’ll teach you the rest…
We’ve recently become a Sunday Times Best Place to Work. Join the team responsible for keeping our college environment safe and smooth-running. This’ll include:
-Locking and unlocking buildings
-Walking around our sites, being a visible presence
-Using surveillance equipment
-Working with fire alarms and intruder alarms
-Moving furniture and equipment for open events
-Sorting and delivering post
-Minor repairs and maintenance
-Setting up classrooms for exams
…all with a cheerful, flexible, can-do attitude.
Shifts are 7am - 2.30pm and 2.30pm - 10pm (Monday- Friday), alternating each week. Overtime is available and we’ll provide your uniform plus free on-site parking. A full driving license is essential (you’ll need to drive a college vehicle).
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Steve Scutchings: stevenscutchings@exe-coll.ac.uk / 01392 400498 / 07523864967
*salary includes £1,500 shift allowance.
Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more.
And see what our staff have to say here.
Benefits
We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page.
Applying for the role
If you’re reading this on our website, click on the apply button, below.
If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 20th July 2025 at midnight.
Interviews will be held in Exeter on 29th July 2025
No CVs or agencies please.
Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.
We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.
*the paid holidays quoted include at least 7 Christmas closure days and 8 bank holidays