Job summary
Join Our Dedicated Security Team
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking a committed and professional Security Officer to become an integral part of our 24-hour security team.
You will play a key role in ensuring the safety and security of our staff, patients, visitors, and property across the Trusts sites including hospital wards, car parks, and outlying buildings.
Shift Information:
Standard shift pattern: 2 days, 2 nights, 4 days off (12-hour shifts)
Shift pattern is currently under review and subject to chang
Flexibility is essential, including the ability to cover various hospital sites and work during periods of staff absence or annual leave
Main duties of the job
You will play a key role in ensuring the safety and security of our staff, patients, visitors, and property across the Trusts sites including hospital wards, car parks, and outlying buildings.
Key Responsibilities:
Maintain a safe and secure environment across hospital premises
Respond promptly and effectively to incidents, emergencies, and alarms
Monitor surveillance systems and carry out regular patrols
Provide a reassuring presence for patients, staff, and visitors
Assist with enforcing hospital policies and procedures, including access control
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Security staff will be expected to maintain at all times a standard of personal conduct and deportment in keeping with the nature of their duties and the hospital environment.
- Carry out regular patrols of the site and to report any incidents and/or damage in line with Local Operating Procedures
- Protection of patients, staff, visitors, contractors and any other legitimate site users’ property against loss, theft, damage and waste
- Manage disturbances and the escorting of unauthorised persons off the premises.
- Provide a Ward/Department presence in situations where patients and/or visitors are being, or potentially being, violent or aggressive.
- Handle patients (including out-patients), on a face-to-face basis, in circumstances involving violent/aggressive behaviour using the application of ‘conflict resolution’ techniques.
- If (or when) required, apply control and restraint techniques as per the approved Care and Responsibility criteria/training to fulfil the duties and responsibilities.
- Receive & log complaints of crime from patients/visitors and staff. Carry out investigations when required of any loss or breaches of security and report to Supervisor as necessary.
- Provide security assistance as required in accordance with Trust Major Incident Plan, Missing Patient Policy and Major Non-Clinical Emergency Policy and at the scene of road traffic accidents within hospital grounds.
- Ensure the safe custody of all lost/found property out of hours. During working hours, take such property to the General Office
- Assist in the passage of critical information when communications systems fail.
- Ensure the security/safety of the approved helicopter landing site during landing/ unloading/loading/take off operations of Air Ambulance (or other authorised service user) helicopters.
- Use of several computerised (or any other) systems in relation to Security and Car Parking
- Report any untoward incidents concerning members of staff to the Security Supervisor and/or other levels of management.
- Report & log any criminal acts to the Police and the Security Supervisor and/or other levels of management.
- The locking and unlocking of designated areas as and when required including lock down protocols to support CBRN exercises and incidents.
- Respond as required to fire alarm activations as per Local Operating Procedures, including ‘stand down’ protocols for fire service and liaise with other Trust staff on a site wide basis.
- Provide emergency assistance to all staff as required (i.e., major incidents/accidents).
- Be familiar with local assignment instructions and procedures for reporting incidents.
- To successfully complete mandatory and annual training directives as required by the contract and the trust to ensure personal standards are maintained.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Security staff will be expected to maintain at all times a standard of personal conduct and deportment in keeping with the nature of their duties and the hospital environment.
- Carry out regular patrols of the site and to report any incidents and/or damage in line with Local Operating Procedures
- Protection of patients, staff, visitors, contractors and any other legitimate site users’ property against loss, theft, damage and waste
- Manage disturbances and the escorting of unauthorised persons off the premises.
- Provide a Ward/Department presence in situations where patients and/or visitors are being, or potentially being, violent or aggressive.
- Handle patients (including out-patients), on a face-to-face basis, in circumstances involving violent/aggressive behaviour using the application of ‘conflict resolution’ techniques.
- If (or when) required, apply control and restraint techniques as per the approved Care and Responsibility criteria/training to fulfil the duties and responsibilities.
- Receive & log complaints of crime from patients/visitors and staff. Carry out investigations when required of any loss or breaches of security and report to Supervisor as necessary.
- Provide security assistance as required in accordance with Trust Major Incident Plan, Missing Patient Policy and Major Non-Clinical Emergency Policy and at the scene of road traffic accidents within hospital grounds.
- Ensure the safe custody of all lost/found property out of hours. During working hours, take such property to the General Office
- Assist in the passage of critical information when communications systems fail.
- Ensure the security/safety of the approved helicopter landing site during landing/ unloading/loading/take off operations of Air Ambulance (or other authorised service user) helicopters.
- Use of several computerised (or any other) systems in relation to Security and Car Parking
- Report any untoward incidents concerning members of staff to the Security Supervisor and/or other levels of management.
- Report & log any criminal acts to the Police and the Security Supervisor and/or other levels of management.
- The locking and unlocking of designated areas as and when required including lock down protocols to support CBRN exercises and incidents.
- Respond as required to fire alarm activations as per Local Operating Procedures, including ‘stand down’ protocols for fire service and liaise with other Trust staff on a site wide basis.
- Provide emergency assistance to all staff as required (i.e., major incidents/accidents).
- Be familiar with local assignment instructions and procedures for reporting incidents.
- To successfully complete mandatory and annual training directives as required by the contract and the trust to ensure personal standards are maintained.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
