DIO Ministry of Defence Guard Service Security Officer Shift Worker - Feltham

Do you want a career where you can make a real difference? Join the Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) to protect Defence from threats such as crime, terrorism, espionage, and sabotage by providing the highest quality of security services through professionalism, excellence, and trust.

We are looking for a Security Officer to join our Gold Standard security service and provide a crucial role to the business requiring resilience, vigilance, and alertness. Due to the high profile and strategic locations of the sites we guard, it is essential our Security Officers have a strong work ethic, great teamwork, customer service and communication skills and must be willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the Defence estate. If you can demonstrate this from past or current experiences, we want to hear from you and see this detailed in your CV.

This is a shift working position at 48 hours per week including breaks. The successful candidate will be expected to work nights, weekends, bank holidays etc as stipulated by the shift pattern agreed at the Unit depending on site requirements. This will be an average of 48 hours in a calendar week, this will be 4 x 12-hour shifts each week rostered between Sun-Sat. This will include being rostered in a flexible manner (termed a flexible week) within the shift roster. During the flexible week, the working days and shifts will routinely be stipulated in advance but may be changed at short notice, (this should be no less than 48 hours). The exact shift pattern will be explained in full during the interview., Our Security Officer s main responsibility is to ensure the safety and protection of Defence employees, visitors, and property.

The key duties are as follows and can vary from site to site:

• Assume overall responsibility for the safety and security of designated areas.

• Patrol on foot and in vehicles, designated areas in accordance with outlined security procedures.

• Identify potential security risks and respond accordingly.

• Control vehicular and pedestrian access to site ensuring all have the correct credentials, issuing passes and escorting visitors where appropriate.

• Searching of vehicles, baggage, personnel, buildings, and open areas.

• Traffic management.

• Complete incident reports on breaches of security or defects and maintaining daily logs.

• Respond to emergencies and incidents within designated areas promptly and according to policy.

• Assist employees and visitors with any concerns they may have.

• Escalate emergency situations to law enforcement as required.

• Operating and monitoring security systems; CCTV and alarms.

• Operating and communicating effectively over the telephone and/or radio.

All new starters will participate in a mandatory two-week residential Foundation Course, followed by on-the-job training. Additionally, we offer an annual programme of mandatory online training, along with a dedicated Workforce Development Team to support you with your training needs., We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together

• Managing a Quality Service

• Communicating and Influencing, At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

• Working Together

• Managing a Quality Service

• Communicating and Influencing

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing Date 12/11/2024.

Interviews are due to take place via Microsoft Teams and will be conducted week commencing Date 25/11/2024.

We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn t always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

A background, qualification or interest in the delivery of site security and / or if you can demonstrate experience in delivering customer service is desirable.

Alongside your salary of £30,000, Ministry of Defence contributes £8,691 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time. We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include:

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.

• A generous annual leave allowance.

• Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year.

• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments.

• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year.

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing.

• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and Cafeterias and Shops.

• Entitlement to apply for a Blue Light and Defence Discount Cards

• Free MGS Security Uniform

• As part of your induction, you will attend a two-week residential Foundation Security Course to support in achieving your objectives to a high standard.

Learning & Development

• Professional and Personal Development of skills.

• Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning and Defence Learning Environment.

• Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by MGS.

Discover My Benefits:

Please follow the link to visit the Discover My Benefits site which showcases the benefits and discounts offered when working as a civilian for the MOD. https://discovermybenefits.mod.gov.uk/civilian/

This post does not offer any assistance with Relocation Allowances.

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Recruitment team

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