Mobile Security Patrol Officer

Environment

Wigan Council

Wigan Town Hall

Library Street

Wigan

WN1 1YN

Salary: Grade 4, £13,994 - £14,774 per annum. Plus Enhancements

24 hours per week Saturday /Sunday

Your role:

As part of our NSI Silver accredited organisation, this is a multi-functional role which will primarily involve providing a security presence in and around corporate properties and a residential housing estate.

You’ll provide this pro-active and re-active service to the public of the borough, Wigan Council internal partners and colleagues, our external partners who include the police and fire service. You will provide a professional customer service approach together with the support of your colleagues to uphold and enhance the reputation of the Council.

On occasions you may be required to carry out dynamic risk assessments and employ conflict resolution tactics to deter and prevent crime, disorder, and anti-social behaviour.

About you:

In this role you will require:

• To Currently hold or be able to obtain a valid Security Industry Authority Licence for Security Guarding.


• Be able to successfully pass the Greater Manchester Police Non-Police Personnel Vetting checks and British Standards 7858 Security Screening.


• Good interpersonal skills including establishing/maintaining trust and effective working relationship with the public, and internal / external organisations and agencies.


• Demonstrate good decision-making skills and ability to work on own initiative and within a team environment.


• Experience of working different shift patterns and being flexible in your approach to changing your shift patterns at short notice to support your colleagues and the team in general.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

You will be joining an award-winning Council that has recently been named as the number one Council in the Country by a national publication. The team that you will be a part of, CCTV & Risk Management are also an award-winning team that are NBSI Silver accredited for the high standards and service delivery, procedures and policies. They are an experienced and highly motivated team who deliver the CCTV monitoring, contact centre services and concierge/Security services to the public of the Borough, its partner agencies and private sector companies. Working within the team you will have the opportunity to learn new skills and gain new experiences in a rapidly changing and diverse environment.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.

For further information, please contact Keith Hargreaves at [email protected]

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£13,994

permanent

part time