Gateline Assistant

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Delivering a high level of service to customers
• Assisting in the day to day operation of the automatic ticket barriers
• Ensuring customer security and responding to customer enquiries
• Inspecting and issuing tickets
• Addressing customer needs in times of service disruption
• Ensuring the professional appearance of the gateline area by clearing rubbish and making sure customer walkways are unobstructed
• Selling tickets via a mobile ticket machine and associated accountancy processes

You’ll need to be:

• Able to deliver exceptional front line customer service
• A Self-starter with a can do attitude
• Confident when decision making
• Able to remain calm yet directive in a crisis
• Able to work to strict procedures

As a minimum you will need to have:

• The ability to work as part of a team or independently
• Evidence of numerical ability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Working pattern

This role involves working shifts including weekends and bank holidays.

Additional information

Once you submit your application form, you will be invited to undertake an online situational judgement test. Applicants successfully short listed, will be invited to a competency based interview with the hiring manager. The successful candidate will be required to meet the medical standards for this role, including drugs and alcohol screen. A Basic DBS will also be required.

Full training is provided which will take place in our Training Centre in Swindon. Travel Pass will be provided to enable travel to the training.

The Reward:

As well as a great team environment and comprehensive training, all colleagues enjoy a range of benefits including on-going development, defined benefit pension scheme, free rail travel across our network for you and your family, company-sponsored health care plan, discounted shopping and gym membership and an employee assistance programme.

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA, ethnicity, religion and disability. We maintain zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.

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