Cathedral Sergeant

**Liverpool Cathedral**

**Job Description and Person Specification**

**Job Title**

Attested Cathedral Sergeant

**Reporting structure**

The post reports to the Inspector of Constables. The post holder is the direct line manager for and has authority to supervise the work of the Constables in all situations.

**Job Context**

Liverpool Cathedral occupies a substantial site on St James Mount. The Cathedral Chapter owns 27 houses on the precinct, is responsible for the upkeep of the Cathedral and provides security services for its neighbour Dwell Student Living. The Constables Department exists to meet the Chapter’s security needs in respect of these commitments.

The Cathedral has an integral community comprising staff, volunteers, worshippers, suppliers, and customers of approximately 1000 people, and annually receives approximately 500,000 other visitors. The Constable’s Department is often the first point of contact for visitors, or the last, so a lasting impression of Liverpool Cathedral is often created by the department’s staff.

As an Attested Cathedral Sergeant, you will have additional responsibilities in areas including conflict management, incident response, evidence and crime scene management, arrest and detention, offences against property, people, and public order, and PACE (The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984).

The Cathedral Sergeant will generally work five days per week, with the flexibility of working weekends to help meet the needs of the business. On site hours will be 42.5 per week although the actual working week will be 40 hours as 2.5 hours are paid breaks (30 minutes per day). There is a requirement to be “on call” during lunch periods to respond to the immediate needs of the business. On occasions the Cathedral Sergeant will work alongside Constables and Senior Constables to monitor and train them or to work complete shifts to evaluate how they are performing or to fill a void shift.

**Job Purpose**

1. To provide an effective and efficient supervision for the Constables Department, including resource planning for the future, developing staff, performance monitoring and training for all Constables.

2. To ensure that that both established members and new recruits to the Constables team fulfil their role optimally and that the Cathedral community, our visitors and property are protected from harm.

3. To assist the Inspector in ensuring that the Constables department achieves organizational objectives relating to service standards for security across the precinct, achieves planned income levels in the car park, keeps within planned expenditure levels, and dovetails with other departments across the Cathedral to ensure that the whole organisation benefits from the department’s work.

**The key tasks are**:

- To supervise the Constables Department on a day-to-day basis, including planning rotas and monitoring attendance, sickness, and performance
- Ensuring that Health & Safety frameworks are in place and understood by the Constables and are considered when the Constables work is being planned.
- To support the Inspector in planning for the future, as changes to the department are foreseen
- To recruit and induct new Constables as and when required, in conjunction with the HR and the Inspector of Constables
- To develop the standards and skills of the team, by using an appraisal system, in order that improvements to performance are achieved in line with organizational goals
- To establish personal development programmes for all Constables, both individually and as a team, in conjunction with the Inspector of Constables and HR.
- To write operating procedures for the department
- To act as Fire Safety Officer for the Cathedral which will entail up-dating and monitoring fire evacuation procedures.
- To establish a ‘Knowledge’ test of Cathedral precinct geography, systems, plant and machinery as well as staff, volunteers, worshippers and the wider community with which to confirm that new recruits have achieved adequate levels of awareness of the job
- To work with colleagues with a ‘front of house’ responsibility to ensure that major events in the life of the cathedral are adequately planned and resourced from a security perspective
- To identify any departmental failings to the Inspector and make recommendations for resolution of the failings for consideration
- To attend meetings called to review the Cathedral diary weekly, and monthly
- To brief the Inspector of Constables on all relevant issues as appropriate
- To undertake any other reasonable work as requested by the Inspector of Constables

**Attestation Responsibilities include**:

- Submitting internal crime reports and criminal intelligence reports
- Gathering, recording, and analysing intelligence to achieve community safety and crime reduction objectives providing crime prevention advice where needed
- Conducting arrests with respect for human rights, security and health and safety of detained i