Area General Purpose Relief
Job Introduction
Looking for a career that can take you places?
We are seeking a Area General Purpose Relief to join our Southeastern station team based at Chatham.
Can you move people? Apply now.
Role Responsibility
What you’ll do
Help make every journey through our station an enjoyable one. This means providing top-notch customer service, always following safety protocols, and making our stations clean, welcoming spaces to be in.
We are seeking proactive people who express enthusiasm in improving our passengers’ experience. Your day to day duties may include dispatching trains, protecting company revenue through checking tickets, operating the automatic gates, helping passengers including those who may require extra assistance and ensuring the platforms and station are a clean and safe environment whilst maintaining a visible presence.
This customer facing role involves all aspects of customer service, providing real time information, dealing with difficult conversations and complaints, pro-actively assisting passengers and ensuring all cleaning duties are completed in a thorough manner.
Depending on your role, you may spend your time:
- making sure trains are dispatched safely and on time from our platforms
- inspecting tickets and helping passengers get through our gatelines
- cleaning and tidying our stations
- answering passenger questions and helping them get where they need to be
- dealing with lost property
- conducting regular safety and security checks.
Your shifts
- You will work a varied shift pattern, which includes weekends, bank holidays and nights.
- Shifts may start as early as 5.30am and some will finish after the last train has dispatched at night.
- At certain stations, you may also spend some of your shifts working alone.
The Ideal Candidate
The experience you’ll need
To be considered you will need to demonstrate:
- a passion for making every passenger journey the best it can be
- excellent people and communication skills
- some customer service experience
- a proactive and positive attitude
- the ability to work well in a team
- the ability to handle challenging situations well.
Given the start and end times of shifts, it’s also best to have your own transport to get to and from your place of work.
As proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Scheme, we will offer you an interview if you apply under these schemes and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Find out more here.
Other things to know
- This vacancy may close early if we receive a large number of applications. So, make sure you get yours in early.
- If you applied but weren’t successful in getting a similar role at Southeastern, please wait six months before applying again.
Find out more about our recruitment process and get tips to help you apply.
What you’ll get in return
Along with your salary, the rewards you’ll get include:
- a final salary pension
- up to 32 days annual leave entitlement (which includes bank holidays)
- free rail travel across our networks.
Meaning you can feel secure in your career as well as fulfilled by your work. Click here to see our full range of amazing benefits.
About the Company
A bit about Southeastern
We’re one of Britain's busiest train operators, serving London, Kent and parts of East Sussex. We run over 1,700 trains a day, carrying more than 500,000 passengers and serving 180 stations.
However, working on our railway is more than getting passengers from A to B. It’s about all the little moments that make a difference to their journey.
It’s also about making our railway a great place to work and our team one that represents the communities we serve. This is a journey we’re fully committed to and we’re proud to have been named a ‘Great Place to Work’ at the 2023 National Rail Awards and endorsed as a WORK180 Employer for Women.
Our ways of working are what we expect of everyone at Southeastern. They are powerful. Tiny moments, every day, from every one of us, add up to massive, positive change. Improving how it feels to work here and how it feels to travel with us.
