Retail Security Officer

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; West Malling; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual GP for you and household

Salary Finance for earned pay

Choices benefits platform

MiDeals discounts

Cycle-to-work scheme

Life cover

Mitie Stars recognition

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is hiring a Retail Elite Security Officer in the ME19 area. You will provide a professional security presence, deter theft, and ensure customer safety while delivering excellent service. Flexibility to cover various shifts and locations is required.

The role includes liaising with management and authorities as needed, and applying conflict-resolution skills to maintain a safe store environment. Driving licence is beneficial.

Qualifications

• Experience in retail security environments is essential.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to work with ASCONE and SAFER processes.
• Flexible approach to work patterns and locations.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly visible security presence to deter theft and anti-social behaviour.
• Protect customers and colleagues from abuse with a professional presence.
• Liaise with store management, Police and external agencies when required.
• Utilise conflict resolution to defuse difficult situations.

Skills

Retail Security experience

Excellent communication

Team player

Conflict resolution

Driven by customer service

Flexibility to shift patterns

Full UK Driving licence (beneficial)

CCTV awareness (beneficial)

Tools

Door supervision licence

CCTV licence (beneficial)

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Mitie has a great opportunity for a Retail Elite Security Officer to join the Total Security Management Team.

Retail Elite Security Officers must be available to cover various shift patterns as well as being flexible in their approach to working locations and potential changes to working patterns.

Pay rate £13.10

On site parking available

Location ME19

Main Duties

• To protect customers and colleagues from physical and verbal abuse, by providing a reassuring and professional security presence.
• To provide a highly visible security presence which is easily identified by both customers and colleagues whilst providing an exceptional level of customer service.
• To proactively deter and prevent anti-social behaviour, theft and criminal activity.
• Liaising with the store management, Police and other external agencies when required.
• Utilising conflict resolution in order to diffuse difficult situations that may arise within the workplace.
• Ensuring behaviours and situations that endanger the health and safety and wellbeing of colleagues, customers and fellow officers are identified and rectified in a timely manner in line with company policies.

What We Are Looking For

• The elite security officer will need to be a team player with an enthusiastic attitude.
• Able to work on their own initiative.
• Retail Security experience.
• Able to follow ASCONE and SAFER processes
• Flexible Approach to work to suit the business needs with an ability to work with different teams as required.
• Excellent communication skills are required both written and verbal.
• Capable in the use of technology.
• The ability to identify triggers to conflict along with excellent mediation skills.
• The ability to conduct yourself to high ethical standards.
• Conflict resolution trained.
• Frontline Door Supervision or Security Guarding License essential, CCTV Licence would be beneficial.
• A Full UK Driving licence would be beneficial.
• To maximise the use of BWCCTV during confrontational situations.

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 84,000 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.

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