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Shift / Night Lodge Porter

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Shift / Night Lodge Porter

The Lodge at Hertford College is a modern environment, with a welcoming professional team of Porters and is considered to be the heart of the college.    The role of Lodge Porter encompasses a range of responsibilities, including front-of-house duties, ensuring security, and providing occasional pastoral care.  This position requires a team player, who is also comfortable working unsupervised.  The lodge roster follows a 4-week shift pattern cycle.

We wish to appoint a new Shift/Night Lodge Porter, to work at our main site at Catte Street, Oxford.

The Shift/Night Porter, 32 hours per week average over the 4-week roster with a mix of shifts. Please see the further particulars for more detail about the work pattern.

This is a permanent appointment, available for an immediate start.  Full training given, including Fire Safety, First Aid, Security and Welfare.

Salary ÂŁ28,500 to ÂŁ33,600 per annum, pro-rata.

The College offers attractive terms and conditions including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays per year, a generous pension scheme and a range of employee benefits such as retail discounts and health and wellbeing schemes.

For the full job description and further details of the application process, please see the further particulars attached below.

Job Description & Further Particulars

Application Form

Recruitment Monitoring Form

Applications

Applications can be emailed to hr@hertford.ox.ac.uk.  Please include the following attachments:

  1. CV (maximum 3 sides of A4)
  2. Covering letter detailing how your experience, skills and qualifications meet the criteria for the post
  3. A completed Application Form

Applicants are also asked to complete and return a Recruitment Monitoring Form, provided that they are happy to do so.

Closing date: 9am Tuesday 15 September 2026

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