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Hours: 38.5 per week on rota basis (3 on 3 off)
Contract Type: Permanent

Service Area: Place Management

Department: City & Town Centre Management

Are you passionate about public safety?

Can you combine attention to detail with excellent customer service?

If you're someone who is comfortable using technology, looking for a fresh challenge, why not join our CCTV team based in the centre of Bath?

Bath & North East Somerset council is a highly successful unitary local authority. We are responsible for delivering a wide range of vital public services, from highways management (Bath City Centre Security Scheme) to complex social support. Within a busy shopping centre and tourist location, we rely on technology to ensure the safety of our residents and visitors and CCTV makes a key contribution to Bath and North East Somerset's priorities and values: Accountability, Caring, Collaborative, Curious, Integrity and Outcome Driven.

About you:

One of the essential requirements is a CCTV Public Space Surveillance (PSS) or SIA qualification or the ability to achieve this within 6 months of start date.

Are you a reliable and conscientious person, with a good work ethic and a keen attention to detail
Do you have some experience of working in a team and providing an excellent service to others
Are you capable of developing good technical knowledge of our various CCTV systems and this is matched with well-developed people skills
Do You relish a new challenge and expect the opportunity to make a difference
Are you're comfortable analysing visual images, without compromising your keen eye for detail.
This post offers the chance to develop your key skills and opportunities to contribute to improving our performance and ample scope to develop as a member of the service.

The role:

This key role, working as a member of the Security Control Team, will give you the chance to make a real contribution to improving public safety and you will work with our partners, including the police, to review recorded images in order to help prevent crime.

Directly responsible to the Team Leader, you will work in a team to develop new service contracts, standardise reporting and every aspect of CCTV monitoring.

You'll help the team to engage with other service teams and regularly be providing information to others in the Council. When required, you'll deputise for the Security Control Room Operational Team Leader.

We know you keep a close eye on the specifics, so you'll want to read through our job description and person specification to learn more about what's involved and the skills we're looking for.

You'll be based at our Bath City centre offices working a shift pattern across a 24/7 operation as per the rota. Bath has great public transport routes and parking options.

Hours: average of 38.5 per week on rota basis (3 on 3 off)

Salary: Basic pay + contractual overtime and enhancements for unsociable hours

Why B&NES Council?

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Daniel Noad on 01225 477735 or email [email protected]

To apply

Please use the online application facility.

For further information on applying please see “Application Form Help” page on the Jobs website.

Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.

Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.

We are unable to sponsor candidates for this role under the Home Office Tier 2 points-based system (skilled worker route), therefore you must be able to obtain and provide your own right to work in the UK’. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable. Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to bring your right to work documents with you to your interview so they can be copied and verified at that stage.

As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Interview Date: 13th June 2023

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.