Student Safety Assistant

To ensure learners are safe in college and to support their wellbeing and care.

To ensure learners, staff, visitors and college premises are safe and secure.

To ensure in the safety and security and care of College users and the protection of the facilities.

To contribute towards supporting the college's zero tolerance of Sexually Harmful Behaviours and Peer on Peer abuse, identifying, challenging and reporting, being a role model.

Key Responsibilities

First point of contact for incidents, security and medical emergencies.

To complete CCTV requests for the purposes of safeguarding, health and safety, security and crime prevention. To assist and support investigations and incidents on campus.

To conduct the searches of students for prohibited items, and to record all searchers and confiscations in accordance with the College's substance misuse and search policy.

To act as the incident controller for fire alarm activations and will liaise with facilities staff and fire Marshalls and Fire services if necessary. To prohibit the re-entry of people into the building until safe.

To assist with the safe and effective ingress and egress and queue management of staff and learners.

To help with the organisation and coordination of external events, open evenings, enrolment and transitional events.

To work with the Student College Service team with the booking and reservation of visitor parking bays and setting a good first impression with visitors and assisting them with the visitor sign in process.

Patrolling common areas around campus, promoting positive behaviour, intervening to challenge bad behaviour and reporting student behaviour in line with college values.

Supporting the management of incidents with the Safeguarding and Behaviour team including Completing incident and accident report forms as required and taking witness statements from staff, learners and visitors.

Maintaining the health, safety and welfare of College employees, learners, visitors and customer by controlling and managing student behaviour, preventing unauthorised access, removing trespassers from the premises, protecting people from harm/injury, hazard spotting and reporting, removing hazards that may cause harm to others, coordinating safe evacuations, supporting the implementation of policies e.g. no smoking policy.

Provide good customer service to College staff, students, visitors and customers, by assisting with queries, providing direction, supporting the enrolment process, supporting staff to manage student behaviour in the classroom.

Patrolling the College grounds and buildings to provide a visible and a reassuring presence. Protecting the College assets (buildings, cash, equipment, resources) from malicious damage or theft.

Support the college in ensuring that students and staff display their college ID badge at all times.

Monitor driving and parking on campus and address dangerous driving incidents, recording details of illegal, dangerous and inconsiderate parking on campus, carparks and around the environment.

Representing the College within the local community, liaising in a constructive manner with local residents, and ensuring that students are not causing a nuisance outside the College.

Contributing to the elimination of unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation; advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.

Support the process of regular Fire Alarm testing as specified in testing procedures, under the instruction of Health and Safety.

Any other duties as reasonably directed by the college.