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 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:

• 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 team including reviewing CCTV footage in the event of an incident.
• Completing incident forms as required.
• Maintaining the health, safety and welfare of College employees, learners, visitors and customers 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.
• Providing 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 reassuring presence.
• Protecting the College assets (buildings, cash, equipment, resources) from malicious damage or theft.
• Being available to search students for prohibited items, in accordance with the College's search protocol.
• Supporting the college in ensuring that students and staff display their college ID badge at all times.
• Watching for unauthorised visitors on site, challenging if it is safe to do so and reporting as necessary.
• Liaising as necessary with emergency services when required.
• Monitoring driving and parking on campus and addressing dangerous driving incidents, recording details of illegal, dangerous and inconsiderate parking on campus, car parks 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.
• Supporting 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.

Essential Criteria:

• Good literacy and numeracy skills (minimum level 2).
• Driving Licence, access to a vehicle and business insurance.
• Able to work flexibly including evenings and weekends.

Desirable Criteria:

• Level 3 First Aid at Work qualification or a willingness to obtain it.
• SIA Door Supervision and/or CCTV license.
• Safeguarding training.
• Conflict Management & Use of Force.
• Understanding within The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, (Martyn's Law).

Experience:

• Experience of working with young people in an educational or community environment.
• Experience of positive behaviour management.
• Experience of dealing with incidents and incident management.
• Empathy with young people, approachable but with the confidence to assert authority when required.
• Basic Conflict Management Skills and a good understanding of the Security & Education Industries.
• Experience of working under pressure, including handling difficult situations on your own and de-escalating them.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of restorative justice interventions.
• Previous experience in security work.
• Previous experience within an education setting.

Specialist Knowledge:

• Understanding of the issues faced by young people that impact on their safety and wellbeing.
• Committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
• Committed to the principles of equality and diversity.
• Understanding of the definition of Reasonable Force as stated in Common Law.

Desirable Criteria:

• Knowledge and understanding of the Prevent Duty.
• Knowledge about drugs and alcohol policies in relation to young people.

IT Skills:

• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of CCTV applications.
• Understanding of college systems.

Shifts available:

• Middleton/Rochdale - 0730-1630 | 1300-2100 | 1000-1630
• Rochdale - 0800-1630

About Hopwood Hall:

We are a Further Education College and University Centre offering a range of full and part-time courses employing over 600 staff on our campuses in Rochdale and Middleton situated to the north-east of Manchester. We are committed to being a great place to work and have membership status of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. We are a Living Wage employer and an accredited Disability Confident Employer. Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion statement is designed to ensure that unfair discrimination does not take place in any part of our recruitment process. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and colleagues and we expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. The college complies with Safer Recruitment guidance in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and all successful applicants are required to undertake a DBS check and other pre-recruitment checks in line with our Safer Recruitment policy. It is an offence to apply for a regulated role at the College if you are barred from working with children (or vulnerable adults if in a role where this applies). This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and exemption orders 1975, 2013 and 2020.