Evening Porter

Founded in 1923 Canford School is set in 250 acres of inspirational parkland on the outskirts of Wimborne in Dorset. The school, which currently has some 640 boys and girls aged 13-18, is amongst the country’s top co-educational boarding schools.

Canford is run as a seven day a week boarding school and around 70% of the school roll are boarders. Situated amongst the grounds are 7 boarding houses, 3 day houses, 48 staff houses, a theatre, sports centre, health centre and numerous teaching facilities. All the School’s facilities are used during term time, and during the school holidays for weddings, performances and lets.

The sports centre is open to the public throughout the year.

Porters are to be a welcoming first face of Canford for visitors and a helpful and reassuring presence for all pupils, staff and site residents at all times. Porters are responsible for all daily operational requirements on campus. This involves security as well as assisting on logistical set ups/collapse, waste management, post management and any other task.

• Keep pupils, staff and visitors feeling safe and provide visible reassurance on site
• Ensure buildings and premises are monitored for security and spot any security or fire risk which may compromise that security.
• Act as a visual deterrent for criminals and trespassers to include Site patrols on busy / quiet days when the risks are increased.
• Supporting reception team/estates by ensuring all key and padlock management for the site (aided by Estate Supervisor during the day for estates contractors and personnel).
• Supporting receptionist team/estates by ensuring maintaining car permit records and issuing car stickers.
• Supporting reception team/estates by managing  alongside IT, digital locking systems and keys, including annual servicing and reactive repairs.
• Opening/locking and de‑alarming buildings, only when required.
• Challenging unknown people on site as appropriate, particularly prevalent in evenings/silent hours or during events.
• Hand in lost property and securing items left insecurely outside.
• Immediate response to DRAX security, lift and accessible toilet alarms, or incidents / concerns called in by colleagues.
• Occasional speed camera management and operation.
• Occasional parking audits and drop‑off supervision - challenging those who are inconsiderate or not following instruction.

• To adhere to Blue runner live feed reports to ensure all set ups/re setting up are carried out in a timely manner. (Internal or external events including weddings and events)
• To carry out Help Desk tasks to ensure all tasks are planned and carried out
• To assist or support on any furniture moves
• Traffic management – during shift placing out reserved cones for works or reserved bays for events, access, car parking and day-to-day road safety, placing out and taking in one‑way system signs.
• Support and deconflict parking arrangements when events clash.
• All staff – any incidents or issues must be communicated to the next shift. (Transfer duty phones to next duty person)
• Waste management. Ensuring all bins whether large wheely bins or small pedestrian bins are monitored, placed out for external collections, or emptied routinely. (This could include food waste)
• Post Management. Working in conjunction with reception staff - To support the receipt, consolidation and delivering of post. Dept to collect their own post.
• To commit to rota shifts as per contractual hours per week. Full year contract
• Ensure buildings and premises are properly secured and spot any security or may compromise that security.

• To carry out hazard spotting and to report any accidents or near misses.
• Ensure you operate to Departmental and School risk assessments and Policies
• Report any items of machinery or vehicle malfunctioning or operating inconsistently immediately to your line manager.
• First Aid – Be a first point of contact for immediate first aid assistance, and for directing / coordinating the emergency services response.
• Fire – attending all alarm activations and supporting colleagues when holding the duty phone. Submitting fire incident…