Detention Custody Officer

**Detention Custody Officer - Immigration Services - Holyhead Port**

**Salary**: £24 308.47 per annum

Hours: 42 hours per week on a rolling 4 on 4 off shift pattern, both days and nights.

**You will need to have held a full UK car manual driving licence for this role for 12 months, with 6 points or less.**

**Main Duties**

We're looking for respectful, caring people to join our teams.

If you're the right one for us, your strong communication & interpersonal skills, non-judgemental approach, excellent problem-solving skills and ability to keep calm under pressure will be the foundations to develop your Care & Custody career.

Your working time will require you to cover day, mid and night shifts with varying start and finish times as this contract is delivered 24 hrs per day and 365 days a year.

Your new role as a vehicle base DCO will be to escort and transport immigration residents within the UK.

You'll spend time both driving a small mini bus sized vehicle and escorting inside that vehicle at different times during your shift while maintaining high standards of security and safety, and promoting the welfare and decency of residents in your care.

No specific role experience or qualifications are required to be a DCO as full training and supported development are given. Experience of dealing sensitively with a wide variety of people who have been agitated, confused or angry would be an advantage.

**What we are looking for**:

- UK citizen, Citizen of the Commonwealth with your own indefinite leave to remain (not through marriage) or EEA citizen.
- Valid and in-date passport, with no restrictions on your stay in the UK (A valid visa in an expired passport cannot be used to prove right to work in the UK, you must provide a biometric residence permit alongside an in-date passport.
- Continuously resided in the UK for the previous 5 years with no more than 3 months spent overseas at any one time.
- Specific driving compliance is attached to this role.
- Full UK manual driving licence with at least 12 months post qualifying experience.
- Fewer than 7 points on your UK Driving Licence.
- Not currently bankrupt.