Job Description

The Job

• As the GPR, one day you could be covering Platform, the next Gateline or Salespoint duties.
• You could be working any of the shifts (early, late or nights) and any of the duties required for the above roles with the roster published on a Thursday to cover the following week.
• Covering stations across the area from Bexhill to Brighton, you must be able to be flexible.
• These roles cover 24 hour operation, due to the shift times you must live in the local area and have available transport to ensure that you arrive at the station for the first shift and work your last shift as required as there may not always be a train service available.

Are you an experienced Team Leader?

Do you also enjoy working in a customer facing position?

As our General Purpose Relief (GPR) you get to do both:

• You will be passionate about delivering outstanding customer service each and every time, a role model for others to follow.
• You must be also comfortable and effective in leading your team, of up to 20 and providing them the support and development they need to enable them to perform their roles effectively

Through you and your team, our vision is to provide our customers with a welcoming, seamless, well-informed, consistent and relaxed travel experience. One which will encourage additional and repeat business whilst ensuring our customers consistently talk about our service positively. Key to your role, at all times, is being visible and anticipating the needs of the customer to meet their expectations. You and your team will often be the first point of contact our customers will meet on their journey

Experience / Skills / Requirements

• A demonstrable ability to engage, lead and motivate your team
• A positive approach coupled with passion and ability to support and develop your team
• Demonstrable experience of managing customers effectively in difficult environments.
• You must be able to demonstrate a high level of numerical ability.
• An effective communicator and must be able to demonstrate this both through your application and or assessments.
• Able to make decisions in a customer focused manner and carry out instructions effectively.

What you\'ll get:

Living locally, you\'ll have a short commute. You will also get a good salary, once trained, in addition to our excellent benefits package which includes 32 days annual leave per year and a final salary pension scheme. In addition to this, you\'ll get free travel across our networks and 75% discount off other train service providers and leisure travel for your spouse/partner and dependents.

Benefits

Pension

Staff Travel

Childcare Vouchers

Extra Holidays

Discount Scheme

Shares

Long Service Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

The Transport Benevolent Fund

In-House Occupational Health Department

Cycle to Work Scheme

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Testimonials

What our staff say

\xe2\x80\x9cAs a station assistant for Thameslink, it\'s my responsibility to dispatch trains, carry out security checks and provide passenger assistance.\xe2\x80\x9d

Jack Pallister
Station Assistant

\xe2\x80\x9cI work as part of the Fleet Infrastructure team, which means ensuring our 18 Engineering locations operate safely and efficiently. We oversee all building and track maintenance works as well as various minor and major projects across the network.\xe2\x80\x9d

Hannah Richards
Fleet Infrastructure Administrator

\xe2\x80\x9cI\'ve always admired the railway - people rely on it every day and it\'s an important part of life. I\'ve worked very hard to get this job, and two years ago, I was offered a full-time position with Thameslink - determination pays off!\xe2\x80\x9d

Odayne Ebanks
Station Assistant

\xe2\x80\x9cLeaving your comfort zone can be scary, but I encourage everyone to just jump in and do it if they\'re looking for a challenge. It\'s never too late to try something new and with the right team supporting you - you can\'t go wrong!\xe2\x80\x9d

Vanya Felix
Airport Host

\xe2\x80\x9cI joined as a platform assistant last year and this year I was offered the role of team leader. It\'s a lot more responsibility; I supervise an entire shift, which includes all your platform staff. It\'s a big step-up but I\'m really enjoying it so far. I\'ve been a train enthusiast from a young age and finally getting to work on the railway is a dream come true.\xe2\x80\x9d

Marc Carless
Station Team Leader

\xe2\x80\x9cI started in a small ticket office back in 1996 and have continued to work my way up ever since. A previous manager told me about a job he\'d seen advertised for a trainer. I\'d never considered a job in HR or mentoring before then, but he said I\'d be perfect for it and I haven\'t looked back since!\xe2\x80\x9d

Zoey Hudson
Head of Talent, Diversity and Inclusion

\xe2\x80\x9cSince April, I\'ve helped to support our Kickstart Scheme. It\'s been a really rewarding process to be part of because I know first-hand how tough it can be to find work once you\'re out of it.\xe2\x80\x9d

Jack Gow
Mobile Station Managerr

\xe2\x80\x9cI love being part of the railway and find that it\'s a very supportive industry with a lot of open doors for progression. To run a good railway you need different talent and diversity of ideas so it\'s really important that we continue to focus on attracting more young women to the industry.\xe2\x80\x9d

Louise Webb
Passenger Handling Project Manager

\xe2\x80\x9cI love the freedom that comes with being a train driver. Obviously, there are rules and regulations to follow as well as duties and commitments to carry out, but in a way, you\'re sort of your own boss, which is nice.\xe2\x80\x9d

Ashley John
Train Driver

\xe2\x80\x9cI was in my mid-twenties when I applied to be a driver. It\'s something you can go into at any point in your life and I\'d recommend it to anyone, it\'s a fantastic industry to be a part of. I haven\'t been treated any differently just because I\'m a woman - I was the only female in my training class but that didn\'t bother me. I\'d love more women to join us, so what are you waiting for?\xe2\x80\x9d

Paige Lunn
Train Driver

\xe2\x80\x9cI left school as soon as I could, which was just after finishing my GCSEs.After a couple of office and retail jobs, I started my railway career in 2013 when I was 19 years old. Over six or so years, I worked in various roles and covered pretty much every station between Stevenage and Finsbury Park. It was a slightly quieter day when I saw the job advert for a trainee driver. I applied on a whim and things progressed from there!\xe2\x80\x9d

Beau Hawkins
Train Driver

\xe2\x80\x9cI\'m a Thameslink passenger host and team leader based at Luton station and I\'m currently doing a Level 3 Supervisor apprenticeship so that I can improve my skills even further. I was hesitant to do the apprenticeship at first because of my age - I left school over 60 years ago without any qualifications! It\'s been hard to get back into the routine of learning again.\xe2\x80\x9d

Bob Bryce
Passenger Host Team Leader

\xe2\x80\x9cIt was my brother\'s suggestion to join the railway. He was already working in the industry and knew I had some university bills to pay off so told me to give it a go, get out of debt and see what I wanted to do next. After a while, it just felt like actually - this is exactly where I\'m meant to be. I\'m part of a great team and the on-board department as a whole are brilliant to work with. I feel at home here.\xe2\x80\x9d

Tonderai Matizha-Johnson
Area Operations Manager

\xe2\x80\x9cWhen I saw that GTR was advertising places for its apprenticeship scheme I looked into it straight away because I thought it was a great opportunity to learn whilst getting real life experience in a 9-5 job. I applied for a level three business administration apprenticeship and was thrilled to find out I had a place on the course! I was so excited that I didn\'t even mind it was based 250 miles away from where I lived.\xe2\x80\x9d

Harriet Dee
Team Administrator

\xe2\x80\x9cWorking for GTR is very rewarding and fulfilling. You really feel like you\'re making a difference to customers, no matter what role you\'re in as at the end of the day they\'re the heart of our business. I\'ve had lots of opportunities to explore other aspects of the business including supporting our station staff and gaining my Train Dispatch Licence which has been enriching for my experience here.\xe2\x80\x9d

Maggie Luckhurst
Platform/Train Dispatch

\xe2\x80\x9cIf you\'ve always had an interest in rail, or maybe you\'re just curious to find out what working in the railway might look like, GTR is the operator to go for. Not many companies do an official work experience program and this unique opportunity will give you a good grounding with varied activities to help you find the best place in the railway for you. It certainly did it for me.\xe2\x80\x9d

Nathaniel Owen
Station Manager

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