Security Officer

NHS; Preston; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Security Officer to join their team. The role involves delivering a comprehensive security service, conducting patrols, and responding to incidents. No prior experience is required as full training will be provided. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and a commitment to safety. This is a full-time position with a salary range of £24,937 to £26,598 per annum.

Benefits

27 days of holiday plus bank holidays

Opportunity for training and development

Potential for overtime earnings

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a customer-facing role.
• Experience working with the public.
• NHS experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with staff, patients, and visitors.
• Conduct proactive patrols to ensure safety.
• Respond to security and fire-related incidents.

Skills

Customer service experience

Teamwork

Basic IT Skills

Understanding of Health and Safety

Education

Good standard of General education (e.g GCSE's)

Full UK Driving License

Job description

Go back Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Security Officer

The closing date is 22 October 2025

Join Our Security Team - Make a Difference Every Day

We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, motivated, and dedicated individual to join our high-performing, proactive security team. If you're looking for a role where you can contribute to creating a safe and welcoming environment for staff, patients, and visitors, we want to hear from you.

About the Role As a Security Officer, you will deliver a comprehensive 24/7 frontline security service across our Trust sites. You'll play a key role in:

• Preventing and detecting crime and anti-social behaviour
• Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of patients, staff, and visitors
• Protecting Trust property and assets
• Responding promptly to all security and fire alerts

You will be primarily based at one of the Trust's hospitals, with occasional duties at the other site as required.

No prior security experience is necessary - full, comprehensive training will be provided to the right candidate.

What We're Looking For We're looking for someone who:

• Takes pride in delivering high standards
• Works well as part of a team
• Communicates effectively and professionally
• Is committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment

Main duties of the job

Your main duties will include the protection of our patients, staff and visitors. You will assist in the prevention of crime, conduct proactive patrols of the internal and external sites, securing buildings, general car park duties and respond to emergency incidents, this will include fire alarms and challenging patients and members of the public.

You will have a professional and logical approach to your work, showing initiative and have a can do attitude.

This is a challenging and rewarding role and be able to work under pressure and keep calm in challenging situations.

This is a full time position, working contracted hours of 37.5 hours per week with a holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus an additional 8 bank holidays.

You will be working at both Preston and Chorley Hospital sites, working a 4 on 4 off rotating shift pattern covering all operational hours across both sites when needed. This will include nights and weekends.

Unsociable and weekend enhancement are paid when these are worked.

As a band 3 officer working this pattern, you will be expected to obtain earnings of up to £33k with the opportunity for working overtime on an ad hoc basis.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Job responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with a wide range of clinical and non-clinical staff, patients, visitors and immediate colleagues.
• Maintain and develop competences
• Supporting the training of other staff
• Conform to health, safety, fire and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Undertake Bedside Security duties to support clinical staff as requested
• Respond promptly to all security & fire-related incidents
• Carry out security patrolling and related duties
• Support the day to day management of car parking on trust property.
• Undertake proactive crime and security incident management duties
• Responsibilities for data and information resources
• Reduction in security related incident

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

• previous experience working in a Customer facing role
• Experience working with the public
• Experience working as part of a team
• Basic IT Skills (email, logging incidents, using microsoft word etc)
• NHS experience
• Understanding of Health and Safety, fire safety and emergency procedures.

Qualifications & Education

• Good standard of General education (e.g GCSE's including numeracy and literacy)
• Full UK Driving LicenseNVQ or other equivalent qualifications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year Per Annum, Pro Rata