Security Officer

Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

8/9/2025

For enquiries relating to this role please contact [email protected]

About The Role

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 Trust’s 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

You will play a key role in ensuring the safety and security of our staff, patients, visitors, and property across the Trust’s 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
  
  

Key Requirements

• 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.
  
  

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support
  
  

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