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Role:

Band 2 £25,146

Location: Sunderland

Hours/Contract: 37 Hours, Permanent

Working for: North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (“NEROCU”)

Learn about our full benefits package

The role

We’re looking for a proactive and reliable individual to provide essential building and vehicle maintenance services, alongside ad-hoc driving duties, to support the operational needs of NEROCU. Your work will ensure a safe, functional, and professional environment for our staff and visitors, playing a vital role in enabling our teams to focus on tackling serious and organised crime.

In this hands-on role, you’ll carry out routine checks, basic repairs, and scheduled servicing for both buildings and vehicles, as well as respond to ad-hoc tasks that keep our operations moving. From maintaining facilities and equipment to supporting vehicle availability and providing efficient driving services, you’ll be a key part of ensuring everything runs seamlessly behind the scenes.

What you’ll do

• Maintain the building to ensure that staff and visitors using the buildings are provided with a safe and functional environment by undertaking all related building checks.
• Carry out basic repairs and maintenance including assessments of work to be undertaken, assigned testing, and scheduled servicing of the building and equipment to ensure that they are operational and safe.
• Undertake routine and ad hoc internal and external cleaning operations to provide a safe and functional environment for staff and visitors.
• Undertake office furniture moves and transfers to help ensure that NEROCU staff has the necessary equipment and supplies for their needs

Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description

What you’ll bring

• Excellent planning and organisational skills, prioritising workloads effectively, ensuring a high quality of service to our customers.
• You will be motivated and a self-starter, working independently to manage the workload.
• An understanding of health and safety.
• Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt to a variety of stakeholders.
• Confidence to manage expectations of numerous stakeholders and take personal responsibility for addressing any barriers to delivery.
• Competent with IT, able to input data onto the maintenance databases.

This is a varied role where you’ll also provide support all staff across NEROCU. You’ll need to be flexible in your approach and able to manage a variety of people in different roles. You’ll also need a valid UK driving licence to travel between sites when required.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact careers@northumbria.police.uk

What we offer

• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
• NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme
• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
• Flexi time – allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force
• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
• Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support.
• Access to gyms in some stations
• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunity to volunteer in local community

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Services Maintenance Operative with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re ing for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV)/ Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.