# Security Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £30,630 - £32,346 per annum inclusive of HCAA
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Shifts including nights
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (FT Pro rata 4 on 4 off including Day and Night shifts and weekends)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-19T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13T00:02:13.776Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Hillingdon/The_Hillingdon_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Estates_Facilities/Estates_Facilities-v8226260
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8226260?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.thh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Security Section exists for the safety of all staff, patients, and visitors to the Hospital site.

To be responsible for monitoring the CCTV System, responding to all alarms within the Hospital and responding to duress calls made by members of the Hospital staff, patients and visitors. To deal with any aggressive patients/visitors as necessary. To be responsible for parking on the site, providing directions to visitors, searching for patients missing from the wards, assisting confused patients back to their wards and helping Hospital staff moving patients around the site where appropriate.

### Main duties of the job

- To maintain a safe environment for staff, patients and visitors within the Hospital and grounds, and the protection of all Hospital assets
- To respond promptly to incidents and emergencies within the Hospital site
- To provide documentation, reports and liaise with outside agencies such as the Police
- To establish and maintain effective working relationships with all wards, departments, and outside agencies with which the Security Team comes into contact
- To collect evidence for the Police using Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as required
- To represent the Hillingdon Hospital in Court, giving evidence in any cases that are involved with theft, violence or damage to Hospital property, staff, patients, or visitors
- To escort staff, cash and patients’ property around the Hospital on a regular basis
- To regularly monitor the car parks and issue parking tickets to staff, patients, and visitors when necessary
- Issue keys to Hospital departments as necessary.
- To produce and issue ID/Access Cards, maintaining electronic database records

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

- Assessments will be held on Monday 24th August
- Successful candidates will then be notified for Interviews for Thursday 3rd September

Please note, this role will not qualify for sponsorship

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Person Spec

**Essential**

- Educated to GCSE or equivalent in English and Mathematics
- Basic Computer Skills
- Experience of working in the security sector

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in the NHS security sector
- Is able to utilise CCTV, Fire and Safety systems to maintain the security and integrity of the Trust

## Documents

- [functional requirements (pdf, 136.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10535500)
- [security officer personal spec (pdf, 136.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10535499)
- [security officer job description (pdf, 152.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10535498)
- [culture & values - cares behaviours (pdf, 155.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1043)

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