Security Team Leader
Company
Location
Newton St Loe
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£33,586 - £37,461 a year
Job Highlights
- Lead and motivate a team of Security Officers, ensuring safety and conducting effective day-to-day operations across the University campus.
- Ideal candidates will possess previous leadership experience, strong organisational skills, and the ability to manage incidents effectively.
- Working in Bath, the role requires a 12-hour shift commitment, with a salary range starting from £33,586, plus a focus on professional development.
Job Requirements/Description
Previous Applicants Need Not Apply.
We are seeking a proactive and resilient Security Team Leader to join our Estates & Security team. Reporting to the Security Manager, you will lead and support a team of Security Officers to deliver a high-quality, professional security service across the University campus.
You will play a key role in ensuring a safe, secure and welcoming environment for staff, students and visitors, while acting as a visible role model for standards, conduct and performance
As Security Team Leader, you will lead, motivate and support a team of Security Officers, ensuring the highest standards of professionalism, safety and customer service. You'll oversee day-to-day security operations, including patrols, building access, alarms and campus safety, while taking the lead during operational and critical incidents.
The role includes managing team performance, delivering training and briefings, ensuring compliance with health and safety and SIA requirements, maintaining operational equipment, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture with a focus on staff development and wellbeing.
Salary Grade 5 - Starting from £33,586 rising to £37,461 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Additional information
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Description
Previous Applicants Need Not Apply.
We are seeking a proactive and resilient Security Team Leader to join our Estates & Security team. Reporting to the Security Manager, you will lead and support a team of Security Officers to deliver a high-quality, professional security service across the University campus.
You will play a key role in ensuring a safe, secure and welcoming environment for staff, students and visitors, while acting as a visible role model for standards, conduct and performance
About the Role
As Security Team Leader, you will lead, motivate and support a team of Security Officers, ensuring the highest standards of professionalism, safety and customer service. You'll oversee day-to-day security operations, including patrols, building access, alarms and campus safety, while taking the lead during operational and critical incidents.
The role includes managing team performance, delivering training and briefings, ensuring compliance with health and safety and SIA requirements, maintaining operational equipment, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture with a focus on staff development and wellbeing.
About You
- Previous experience in leading teams, managing performance, supporting and developing staff
- Experience in building positive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent)
- Valid full UK Manual driving license
- Hold current SIA and CCTV (or willing to obtain one) during probation period
- Effective organizational skills with ability to plan prioritize and delegate
- Experience of managing incidents involving welfare, vulnerability or safeguarding
- Live within a reasonable commutable distance to the campus based on a 12 hr shift
For further information on the essential and desirable skills we’re looking for, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Additional Information
Salary Grade 5 - Starting from £33,586 rising to £37,461 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Additional information
- The post holder will wear the approved University Security uniform
- The role is based on a rotational shift pattern covering 365 days per year over 24 hours per day working 12 hour shifts.
- Post holders are required to hold a valid full driving licence for manual and automatic vehicles
- The post is non-sedentary and walking between areas on the vast campus is required.
- Post holder will be required to be Security Industry Authority (SIA) Door Supervisor Licensed, First Aid at Work and Mental Health First Aid accredited and will be required to be SIA CCTV Operator licensed. (All relevant training will be provided).
- The post is subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check. On appointment to the role a check will be carried out by BSU and thereafter role holders will be required to provide a copy of their DBS Certificate as part of the SIA Licence renewal process.
Due to the nature of this post regretfully we cannot accept applications that do not have the Right to Work/Live in the UK therefore your application will be rejected.
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
- Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme/Teacher's Pension Scheme). This is a defined benefit pension scheme which pays members a secure income for life, post-retirement
- Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days depending on the role (Full Time) - more details here: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/StaffBenefits
- Family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible work environment, on-site nursery, and a sector-leading enhanced maternity scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers access to on-demand GP appointments, wellbeing support and advice, and access to counselling
- Transport schemes including Electric Vehicle Scheme and Cycle to Work
- Wide range of discounts and financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app
For further details about all our staff benefits, have a look at our rewards page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/work-at-bath-spa/rewards-and-benefits/
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About Bath Spa University
At Bath Spa University, we believe in the power of education to break down barriers to opportunity and to transform lives. We are the Professionally Creative for the future. Professional Creativity transcends subject disciplines, and is just as important for our sciences, education, business and law subjects as it is for our sector leading creative industries provision. We connect learners, staff and external partners with applied research and innovation. We power inclusive growth through skills development and practice based, innovation – intensive learning for all.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
- Respect
- Inclusivity
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community. We foster inclusivity, celebrating and respecting differences. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and genders. We consider our recruitment practices to be comprehensive and unbiased; ensuring fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity for all.
Information about visa sponsorship
Information about visa sponsorship
Under the 2006 Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Act the University has a duty to prevent illegal working by carrying out document checks on all potential employees to confirm that a person has the right to work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
For some vacancies (those requiring specific specialist skills or in shortage occupations) we may be able to obtain a certificate of sponsorship for a suitably qualified applicant. Due to the limited availability of sponsorship resources, not all vacancies in this category will be eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility will be assessed on a role-by-role basis and is normally limited to positions that meet the University's workforce and immigration criteria.
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Company
Location
Newton St Loe
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£33,586 - £37,461 a year