Package Description
Extend: EX2324
Job Reference: 20640
Band: B
Salary: £27,000 - £31,333 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent full-time role
Location: Office Base is Belfast
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our .
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Job Introduction
This role is advertised as part of our for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: , or the definition of disability in the. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.
We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, .
The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.
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BBC Northern Ireland is part of the Nations division producing a wide range of output across all TV, Radio, and Online platforms. The Business Operations team provide the skilled craft personnel such as camera and audio operators, as well as facilities, that are essential to the production of high quality output.
As an Access Operative you will work as part of the production crew and ensure, in collaboration with resource teams, the safe and timely arrival of vehicles at an outside broadcast (OB) site or studio location. Duties also include rigging technical equipment, laying cables, operating power towable generators up to 10Kw and other specialist OB equipment and assisting the operational crew.
Main Responsibilities
Assist in the planning stages of a project to generate a parking and cabling plan, supervise staff as required. Load, unload and maintain vehicles inside and out to BBC standards. Carry out driver checks and first line maintenance and report faults promptly. Lay out cables, deploy camera mounts. Track cameras as required. Rig communications equipment and panning aerials. Rig OB and studio equipment including seating and staging. Assist the operational crew with rigging equipment such as, PA, monitors, etc. Rig and operate a range of Grips equipment including tracks, camera cranes and dollies.
Are you the right candidate?
Essential:
Full Driving Licence with entitlements for Category B, B+E, C1, C, C+E. Working knowledge of current transport legislation. Up to date CPC driver qualification.
Desirable:
Some training in the following areas will be an advantage: Manual handling Height access Hoist awareness Knowledge of ropes and slings Electricity at Work regulations Working with hydraulics Working with overhead cables Fire awareness Working at Height Display Screen Equipment Working with the public Risk assessments
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
