International Passenger Survey Interviewer - Port of Holyhead

International Passenger Survey Interviewer - Port of Holyhead Holyhead, Wales

Office for National Statistics
Full Time Holyhead, Wales 6017 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Details

Reference number

288982

Salary

£6,017
FTE £21,204: Actual salary £6,017 paid pro rata

Job grade

Other
International Passenger Survey Interviewer

Contract type

Fixed Term

Length of employment

12 month

Business area

ONS - Surveys and Data Collection

Type of role

Social Survey Interviewer

Working pattern

Part-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

Holyhead

About the job

Job summary

Are you interested in a role based in the UK’s busiest Air and Sea ports? Are you friendly, outgoing and do you enjoy meeting and talking to people from all over the world? If the answer is yes, come and join our team.

The data you will collect impacts government policy. The International Passenger Survey is the largest, most authoritative survey of its kind in the UK. It has been providing data to a variety of organisations and government departments for over 60 years. Our clients include; Visit Britain, Balance of Payments, HM Revenue and Customs, Health Analysis and Pandemic Insights.

Visit Britain use our data to identify and monitor UK inbound tourism to help build a detailed understanding of global target markets and broader travel trends. No personal data is collected or stored. Our data enables Visit Britain to provide information & advice to Government and the tourism industry and monitor perceptions of Britain amongst visitors and potential visitors. Balance of Payments use the IPS data to record foreign resident spend in the UK and compare with UK resident spend abroad.

Job description

You will be based at the Port of Holyhead and this will be considered your normal place of work (your base site).

IPS shifts are allocated on a 6 weekly basis with a mixture of AM & PM weekday and weekend shifts. Depending on your site, shifts lengths vary from 4 – 8 hours.

As an IPS Interviewer, you will work as part of a small team honing your interpersonal skills to persuade international arriving and departing passengers to participate in the survey. Some people take more persuading than others to take part, therefore you will need an adaptable interviewing style. The information you gather is entered into a tablet during the interview.

You will be employed on a 12 month fixed term contract for 546 hours per annum. This broadly equates to 10.5 hours per week. More information on annualised contracts and how they work can be found in the candidate pack.

Flexibility in when you can work is a requirement of our business. Therefore, if you have any regular set commitments on any day of the week, this will preclude you from applying.

Person specification

Essential requirements for the IPS Interviewer role are:

  • For the IPS Interviewer role you must have a vehicle and a full, valid UK driving licence (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals).
  • At home, you must have a wireless broadband connection as you will be provided with a tablet to access your work emails.
  • Proficient in the use of a tablet or smartphone
  • Demonstrate excellent verbal communication skills and a passion for meeting and talking to people.
  • Proven team player
  • You must declare any unspent convictions and convictions pending (excluding parking offences). Do not give details of any conviction(s) that are spent under the ‘Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974’. Should you have any doubt as to whether or not a conviction is spent, you should seek advice from an appropriate person, e.g. a solicitor, the Clerk of the Court where you were convicted or a Citizens Advice Bureau.
  • Be able to embrace the physical aspect of the role and adapt to a fast-paced working environment where you will often conduct an interview on the move. This will require the need to move through congested areas, negotiate flights of stairs and restricted areas with limited access, long walks at airports, and at quayside operation sites (where relevant to the post) to also negotiate busy car lanes

Desirable Requirements/Criteria for the IPS Interviewer role:

  • Experience of working unsociable hours
  • Experience of working with the general public

Licences

A Full valid UK driving licence (inclusive of the rights of EU Nationals) is required for this post.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy:

  • Generous holiday allowance – pro rata based on 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service in addition to 9 days public holidays.
  • Strong ethos of equality and diversity.
  • Up to 3 days paid leave per year for voluntary opportunities.
  • Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and statutory paternity leave of 2 weeks plus an additional week of departmental paternity leave all at full pay.
  • Highly competitive contributory Civil Service Pension.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role.
  • Provision of a uniform.
  • A tablet and mobile phone for work use.


Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

The ONS regularly run webinars and support sessions for candidates. You can find details on all our upcoming webinars on our EventBright page.

Assessment at application stage will be based on your work history, skill and experience and personal statement. Your application should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role.

Your personal statement should be no longer than 500 words. You should use this space to provide evidence for each essential criterion within the person specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions. Please ensure that you download and read the Candidate Information Pack before completing your personal statement

Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.

In cases where there is a high number of applications, the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order i.e., those scoring the highest. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

Should you be invited to interview, you will assesses using various assessment techniques aligned to the Civil Service Success Profiles, where you will be assessed against all the behaviours outlined in the advert as well as against technical areas listed in the advert.

We will assess you against the following behaviours during the selection process

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

There will also be a technical question on your ability to use digital technology

If you application is successful, you will be invited to attend a video interview lasting between 30-45 minutes. At interview, you will be assessed on your suitability for the role by providing us with evidence in the interview to support what you included in your application. You should make time to familiarize yourself with the required behaviours before interviewed have a list of questions that you may wish to ask prepared.

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 6 months from which further appointments may be made.


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

International Passenger Survey Interviewer - Port of Holyhead
Office for National Statistics

http://www.ons.gov.uk
Newport, United Kingdom
Ian Diamond
Unknown / Non-Applicable
5001 to 10000 Employees
Government
National Services & Agencies
1996
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