Casual Platform Duty Officer
The Role
Lancaster City Council is currently seeking a highly motivated, skilled, and enthusiastic individual to provide duty management cover at the Platform Live Entertainment venue in Morecambe, and where necessary to support, at other Council venues, including facilitating, supporting and delivering a comprehensive programme of events and activities safely and successfully.
The post holder may also be requested to work at other Council commercial properties, or support the delivery of the Council’s outdoor events programme.
Essential skills required or agreement to work towards in post –
- First aid at work
- Personal licence holder
As part of your role, you will be a key holder with responsibility of staff supervision whilst you are on shift, including a small team of event stewards, bar staff, box office operator, and volunteers.
This post is casual, with available hours including bank holidays, evenings & weekends.
This post is based at the Platform.
About You
You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.
Our Benefits
Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.
We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.
At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve, and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview.
Provisional Interview date: 28/11/24