Grade 2, £19,893

Accommodation, Catering, and Events – Community Support Team

Open Ended, 35 hrs

1 Position Available

The ACE Community Support Team are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and positive individual to join our team of Community Support Assistants.

T he successful candidates will work within the Community Support Team, based at Pollock Halls, and be part of a 24h customer focussed team providing professional, highly visible frontline services including; cleaning, safety, security, and logistical services across our residential estate to ensure our student residents and all service users have safe and well-maintained accommodation.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• An ability to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing with customers, colleagues at all levels of the university, and outside agencies.
• The ability to show initiative and to act on that initiative where necessary.
• The ability to work efficiently under pressure and deal calmly with difficult situations.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a confident, enthusiastic and approachable manner.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and on their own.
• Hold a full clean driving license.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging, and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent, and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family-friendly , flexible working, and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held November 2022

If invited for an interview you will be required to evidence of your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages. The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.