Security Officer

  • Ref:
    95105
  • Location:
    Shrewsbury
  • Employment:
    Full time
  • Closing Date:
    1 June 2026

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Location: The Princess Royal Hospital & Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

Job Overview: As a Relief Security Officer, you will provide essential cover during staff absences, including annual leave and extra shift needs. You will be responsible for keeping patients, staff, and visitors safe and secure across both hospital sites. Your duties will include regular patrols of the premises, responding to emergencies, and ensuring a safe and secure environment. This role is both challenging and rewarding, offering the chance to make a real difference in a healthcare setting.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure Safety and Security: Keep all people on hospital premises safe and secure.
  • Specialist roles: Using provided training to assist with Clinical demands.
  • Incident Response: Respond to security incidents and emergencies in a calm and professional manner.
  • Conduct Patrols: Regularly patrol buildings and grounds to maintain high standards.
  • CCTV Monitoring: Monitor security surveillance systems and manage the control room to prevent and detect incidents.
  • Crime Prevention: Deter unauthorised access, vandalism, and other criminal activities.
  • Customer Service: Provide professional help and directions to patients and visitors as required.
  • Conflict Resolution: Use training to de-escalate tense situations involving distressed people.
  • Documentation: Keep accurate and detailed records of all incidents and actions taken.
  • Multi-Agency Collaboration: Work with multidisciplinary staff, police, and other personnel to ensure complete safety protocols.

Essential Requirements:

Valid SIA (Security Industry Authority) Door Supervisor licence.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to work unassisted and collaboratively within a team environment.

Physically capable of responding quickly to emergencies.

Flexibility to work 12-hour shifts, including nights and weekends.

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 80,000 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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Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, SY3 8XQ
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