Security Officer

About this role

PLEASE NOTE: This Band 3 role is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship**

Security Officer

37.5 hours per week (Shift pattern below)

Permanent

Interview Date: TBC

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. *

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community – get in touch to find out more

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This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. *

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community – get in touch to find out more

Shift Pattern: 2 x 7am-7pm and 2 x 7pm-7am - 4 off repeated

To undertake regular foot patrols of the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in general and the Accident and Emergency Department in particular to:

Deter criminal activity against Trust property, staff, patients and visitors

Reassure staff, patients and visitors that there is a security presence

Detect resolve and report security breaches such as insecure buildings, departments etc

Detect and resolve and report Health and Safety hazards

Detect, resolve and report fire hazards e.g. blocked fire exits escape routes

Provide routing assistance and guidance to patients and visitors

Enforcement of all Trust policies and procedures

To provide emergency response to incidents on Trust premises to protect staff patients and visitors from acts of violence or aggression and to protect Trust and staff property Incidents include and are not restricted to:

Assaults on staff

Fighting between patients and visitors

Assisting police and prison service with violent prisoners on hospital premise

The preservation of good order on Trust property, including

The protection of patients, staff, contractors and visitors against violent acts and abuse

The protection of Trust property against loss, theft, damage and waste

The protection of property belonging to patients, staff, visitors and contractors against loss, theft and damage

To help with routine and emergency portering duties when requested as determined by the LSMS and Team Leaders

Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘ excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

E ffective Open Communication

e x cellence and safety in everything we do

C hallenge but support

E xpect respect and dignity

L ocal health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme

Provide covert and overt security presence for wards and departments where there is advance warning of potentially violent behaviour by staff patients and visitors on the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust premises if staff are unable to deal with conflict

To help the Mental Health Liaison Nurse specifically in the Accident and Emergency but also throughout the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust regarding possible violent patients awaiting assessment or sectioning under the Mental Health Act

To carry out lock ups of nominated buildings at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust at night and to unlock on the morning, ensure that the main entrances are secure at night sand weekends in accordance with local procedures

To work within the security control room to direct other officers in response to incidents on site, calls for assistance and to operate radio communications system, requests for entry (through main doors) to monitor and respond to intruder alarm and personal alarm response (pinpoint) and to ensure that appropriate responses are made.

To operate the CCTV system with due regard to

Code of Practice and procedures

Understanding surveillance and individual roles

Evidence and the law in relation to digital and video recordings

Human rights and civil liberties

Data Protection Act 1998

Local knowledge

Confidentiality, accountability and privacy

The post holder will operate the body worn camera in all calls for assistance to include but are not restricted to:

Incidents of verbal abuse

Incidents of Physical aggression

Persons attempting suicide of self-harm (mental health concerns )

Car crime

Issuing enforcement notices on motor vehicles for car parking issues

Incidents of potential child protection issues

Non-compliance with the Trust No smoking policy

Suspicious people

To respond to intruder alarm systems activations in buildings and departments in order to:

Investigate cause of intruder alarm activation internal and external search of premises

If false alarm to reset the alarm and secure the building

If any signs of intruders in building to call the police and wait for arrival

If the building is empty but has been burgled or subject to criminal damage call the police and preserve the scene of crime

To obtain authorisation to call out on call department staff and engineers to make good any damage and to secure the building - department as far as reasonably practical

To provide a report to the Local Security Management Specialist

About security roles for ex-police

Security management, operations and consultancy roles. Years of operational policing — command, incident response, public order — translate directly into corporate security, and employers in this sector actively rate police experience.