Security Officer

Job description

ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland.

We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy.

ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way.

Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €60.6 billion in 2018.

ENGIE are recruiting for a Security Officer to be based in North Manchester General Hospital, Delaunays Road, Crumpsall, Manchester M8 5RB. This is a permanent, full-time role working 56 hours per week (including evenings, nights and weekends).  Shift basis will be:   4 on/ 2 off/ days and nights. On offer is a competitive salary.

Reporting to the Security Supervisor, the Security Officer is responsible for providing a high quality, effective Security Service, tailored to meet the needs of individuals who use or work at the Hospital, in accordance with the agreed Security FM specification.

Specific Responsibilities/Duties Include:

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Security and protection of all Trust staff, visitors and patients

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Carry out appropriate locking and unlocking procedures on buildings, checking all buildings out of hours to ensure they are fully secured

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Regularly patrol the Hospital site as a deterrent against theft or vandalism

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Provide security patient/staff and visitor escorts upon request

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Respond to any requests for assistance with violent/aggressive situations

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Respond to any burglar alarm activation on site, instigating Police response and Alarm Engineer to off-site burglar alarms

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Respond to all Fire alarm activation

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Retrieval and disposal of used needles

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Management of Lost and Found Property

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Manned guarding of AE on nights

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Carry out surveillance and monitoring of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)

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Instigate call-out procedure in the event of a Major Incident

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Report all crimes and liaise with Police investigations into any criminal offence committed within Hospital grounds and off-site clinics and premises

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Issue Identification badges in accordance with Trust policy

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Liaise with any member of staff or public who is having difficulty negotiating the Car Park barriers, ticketing, etc.       

Required Qualifications, Skills or Experience:

·  Successfully complete the Physical Intervention training and annual 2 day update training - this is mandatory and a required standard is expected in order to continue employment within this role .
·  A full, valid SIA licence
·  A full, valid CCTV licence
·  Competent in use of CCTV systems
·  Competent in use of door access systems
·  Familiar with response procedure for Alarm monitoring systems
·  Competence in use of two-way radio system
·  Good verbal and written communication skills, competent in using telephone
·  Computer literate
·  Good knowledge of the Hospital environment
·  Competent in re-programming of alarms, including fire alarm panel
·  Respond to fire alarm activation
·  Carry out physical and clinical restraints where necessary, to protect others
·  Able to deal with emotional/distressing situations
·  Able to work externally in all weather conditions

For more information about ENGIE, please visit:

http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The ENGIE Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.

If you are a disabled applicant and meet the minimum outlined in the job description, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities at interview.

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Aug 21, 2019