Barber/Hairdresser

Part Time contracts between 20-30 hours per week. Campsfield IRC is due to open soon as the UK’s first all-electric Immigration Removal Centre. We are looking for respectful, diligent and caring colleagues to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Provide a hair-cutting and barbering service to residents which reflects the cultural needs of the population and is in accordance with contractual, safety and security standards.
• Provide hair-cutting and barbering services ensuring that skills are current and updated in line with industry standards.
• Promote the services offered and manage a booking system for all residents to enable fair access to the services.
• Manage the environment ensuring maintenance and security of tools and equipment at all times to relevant standards.
• Maintain the workspace ensuring it is clean and tidy at all times.
• Create and maintain a safe, secure, positive and friendly environment where residents feel welcomed and respected.
• Ensure the completion of all documentation and administration in line with company policies and any external agency requirements so that accurate, compliant data is maintained and provided.
• Use all resources effectively to ensure quality of service and value for money.
• Advise on equipment and purchases necessary to meet contractual requirements.
• Supervise and coach resident barbers to help develop their skills and ensure safety and security.

Person Specification

Essential

• This role requires the ability to deliver a range of hairdressing and barbering styles.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering relevant workshops/training.
• Experience within the custodial setting.
• Experience of working with ESOL learners would be advantageous and a patient and understanding attitude to the language problems faced by learners is essential.

Care + Custody Competencies

• Interacts with residents easily, quickly building rapport but maintaining professional distance.
• Is impartial, fair, assertive, consistent and confident with residents.
• Treats residents with respect as individuals and encourages residents to do the same to others.
• Listens carefully to residents, including picking up on unspoken communication.
• Explains issues clearly to residents and keeps them informed at all times of relevant issues.
• Makes time to understand residents and regularly helps them, working hard to meet their needs.
• Shows empathy and compassion.
• Diffuses anger and worries in residents.
• Acts upon signs of distress, self-harm or anger.
• Encourages residents to express their concerns, take responsibility for their behaviour and participate in activities and programmes.
• Is observant.

Eligibility

• You must be eligible for CTC clearance.
• You must hold a valid British passport or an EU passport with a share code.
• Additionally, you must have lived and worked in the UK for at least 3 years, without any extended trips overseas.
• Applicants must have no criminal convictions and must not be subject to any ongoing police investigations.

Benefits

• We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household.
• We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme.
• When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices.
• We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform.
• Life cover of up to four times your salary is available.
• We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan.
• We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work.
• Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us.

Recruitment and Inclusion

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.