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Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation trust are looking appoint professional, positive, customer focussed security officers. You will be involved in ensuring the welfare, safety and security of a diverse hospital-based community and its assets, including car parks, buildings and accommodations.

Responsibilities will include responding to enquiries in person, by phone or email, liaising with other clinical and non-clinical departments, incident response including conflict resolution, mental health episodes and violence and aggression. Attending and responding to emergency situations such as fire alarm activation and evacuations, lockdown response and crime related calls for service. General patrolling internally and externally of the hospital including car parks and issuing parking charge notices.

It is essential that the post holder must hold a full clean UK driving licence and be over the age of 21 for insurance purposes, have good assertion, customer care skills and experience, written and verbal communication skills with experience of note taking and report writing, fully computer literate, and be flexible following a shift pattern to deliver a 24/7 service.

We particularly welcome applications from those who identify as female or LGBT+ as they are under-represented in this section.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

1.    To carry out frequent patrols of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sites.

2.    To deter, prevent, detect and initially investigate security related incidents such as theft, criminal damage, assault, violence and aggression and liaise with the Police as necessary and take steps, which may lead to apprehension of the person responsible.

3.    To review, assess and advise, if necessary, employees on matters relating to improving security.

4.    To lock and unlock certain areas and set and de-activate intruder alarms as required. In the event of any alarm being activated, to immediately investigate and liaise, if necessary, with the police as required in accordance with set procedures.

5.    To liaise with the Estates Department on security maintenance matters, e.g. lighting, broken windows, locks, swipe card readers etc.

6.    To undertake appropriate action in accordance with current fire procedures.  Directing the Fire Service and, as required, out of hours key holding services.

7.    To assist in preventing and managing acts of violence or disorderly or abusive conduct on Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sites.

8.    To respond to intruder, lift and fire alarms as required, taking charge of the incident until the arrival of a senior member of staff or external emergency services.

Further duties can be found on the Job Description attached.

Working for your organisation

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients. 

By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care.  By working for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change. 

WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnership’s ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see detailed Job Description and Person Specification attached to this advert for more information.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name

Neil Sheard

Job title

Deputy Facilities Manager

Email address

[email protected]