Security Officer

• Provide covert and overt security presence for wards and departments where there is advance warning of potentially violent behaviour by staff patients and visitors on the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust premises if staff are unable to deal with conflict • To help the Mental Health Liaison Nurse specifically in the Accident and Emergency but also throughout the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust regarding possible violent patients awaiting assessment or sectioning under the Mental Health Act • To carry out lock ups of nominated buildings at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust at night and to unlock on the morning, ensure that the main entrances are secure at night sand weekends in accordance with local procedures • To work within the security control room to direct other officers in response to incidents on site, calls for assistance and to operate radio communications system, requests for entry (through main doors) to monitor and respond to intruder alarm and personal alarm response (pinpoint) and to ensure that appropriate responses are made. To operate the CCTV system with due regard to: • Code of Practice and procedures • Understanding surveillance and individual roles • Evidence and the law in relation to digital and video recordings • Human rights and civil liberties • Data Protection Act 1998 • Local knowledge • Confidentiality, accountability and privacy The post holder will operate the body worn camera in all calls for assistance to include but are not restricted to: • Incidents of verbal abuse • Incidents of Physical aggression • Persons attempting suicide of self-harm (mental health concerns ) • Car crime • Issuing enforcement notices on motor vehicles for car parking issues • Incidents of potential child protection issues • Non-compliance with the Trust No smoking policy • Suspicious people To respond to intruder alarm systems activations in buildings and departments in order to: • Investigate cause of intruder alarm activation internal and external search of premises • If false alarm to reset the alarm and secure the building • If any signs of intruders in building to call the police and wait for arrival • If the building is empty but has been burgled or subject to criminal damage call the police and preserve the scene of crime • To obtain authorisation to call out on call department staff and engineers to make good any damage and to secure the building - department as far as reasonably practical • To provide a report to the Local Security Management Specialist Job description Job responsibilities • Provide covert and overt security presence for wards and departments where there is advance warning of potentially violent behaviour by staff patients and visitors on the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust premises if staff are unable to deal with conflict • To help the Mental Health Liaison Nurse specifically in the Accident and Emergency but also throughout the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust regarding possible violent patients awaiting assessment or sectioning under the Mental Health Act • To carry out lock ups of nominated buildings at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust at night and to unlock on the morning, ensure that the main entrances are secure at night sand weekends in accordance with local procedures • To work within the security control room to direct other officers in response to incidents on site, calls for assistance and to operate radio communications system, requests for entry (through main doors) to monitor and respond to intruder alarm and personal alarm response (pinpoint) and to ensure that appropriate responses are made. To operate the CCTV system with due regard to: • Code of Practice and procedures • Understanding surveillance and individual roles • Evidence and the law in relation to digital and video recordings • Human rights and civil liberties • Data Protection Act 1998 • Local knowledge • Confidentiality, accountability and privacy The post holder will operate the body worn camera in all calls for assistance to include but are not restricted to: • Incidents of verbal abuse • Incidents of Physical aggression • Persons attempting suicide of self-harm (mental health concerns ) • Car crime • Issuing enforcement notices on motor vehicles for car parking issues • Incidents of potential child protection issues • Non-compliance with the Trust No smoking policy • Suspicious people To respond to intruder alarm systems activations in buildings and departments in order to: • Investigate cause of intruder alarm activation internal and external search of premises • If false alarm to reset the alarm and secure the building • If any signs of intruders in building to call the police and wait for arrival • If the building is empty but has been burgled or subject to criminal damage call the police and preserve the scene of crime • To obtain authorisation to call out on call department staff and engineers to make good any damage and to secure the building - department as far as reasonably practical • To provide a report to the Local Security Management Specialist