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Barber - Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre
Part Time contracts between - 20 - 30 hours per week
We have 2 positions available.
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.
Job objectives and responsibilities
1. To 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.
Main duties
2. Provide hair-cutting and barbering services ensuring that skills are current and updated in line with industry standards
3. Promote the services offered and manage a booking system for all residents to enable fair access to the services.
4. Manage the environment ensuring maintenance and security of tools and equipment at all times to relevant standards.
5. Maintain the workspace ensuring it is clean and tidy at all times.
6. Create and maintain a safe, secure, positive and friendly environment where residents feel welcomed and respected.
7. 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.
8. Use all resources effectively to ensure quality of service and value for money.
9. Advise on equipment and purchases necessary to meet contractual requirements.
10. Supervise and coach resident barbers to help develop their skills and ensure safety and security.
Person Specification
Essential
11. This role requires the ability to deliver a range of hairdressing and barbering styles.
Desirable
12. Experience of delivering relevant workshops/training
13. Experience within the custodial setting
14. 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
Resident Care and Management
15. Interacts with residents easily, quickly building rapport but maintaining professional distance
16. Is impartial, fair, assertive, consistent and confident with residents
17. Treats residents with respect as individuals and encourages residents to do the same to others
18. Listens carefully to residents, including picking up on unspoken communication
19. Explains issues clearly to residents and keeps them informed at all times of relevant issues
20. Makes time to understand residents and regularly helps them, working hard to meet their needs
21. Shows empathy and compassion
22. Diffuses anger and worries in residents
23. Acts upon signs of distress, self-harm or anger
24. Encourages residents to express their concerns, take responsibility for their behaviour and participate in activities and programmes
25. Is observant
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.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. 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 (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Aleksandra Otlewska at .