Security Officer

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  • Ref:
    80009
  • Location:
    Oxford
  • Employment:
    Full time
  • Closing Date:
    27 August 2025

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Job Purpose:

To maintain a safe and secure environment for staff, visitors, and property by patrolling, monitoring premises, managing access control, and responding to incidents and emergencies in a professional manner.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Patrol assigned areas on foot or by vehicle to ensure security of premises, doors, windows, and gates.

  • Monitor CCTV surveillance systems and other security equipment.

  • Control access to buildings and sites, ensuring only authorised personnel are permitted entry.

  • Respond promptly and appropriately to alarms, incidents, or emergencies.

  • Write detailed incident and shift reports and maintain accurate security records.

  • Deter criminal or anti-social behaviour through visible presence and effective communication.

  • Liaise with emergency services when required, including police, fire, and ambulance.

  • Ensure compliance with health & safety procedures and site-specific protocols.

  • Provide customer service to staff, contractors, and visitors as required.

  • Attend regular training and briefings to maintain compliance with site and legal standards.


Essential Skills & Qualifications:

  • Valid SIA Licence (Security Guarding or Door Supervisor)

  • Good verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong observational skills and attention to detail

  • Ability to remain calm and act quickly in emergencies

  • Basic computer literacy (for CCTV, incident logs, email)

  • Good physical fitness (able to stand/walk for long periods)


Desirable:

  • First Aid certification

  • Fire marshal or evacuation training

  • Previous experience in a similar role

  • Knowledge of Health & Safety and Data Protection regulations

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 

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Shopping Centres - Oxford - Westgate Shopping Centre
Westgate Shopping Centre, Albion House, Littlegate Street , Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, OX1 1AN
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