Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Security Support Officers
The closing date is 02 November 2025
Full time vacancies available - various shifts - to be confirmed at interview.
This role includes Portering and Basic Security duties. Porters move people and items around a hospital site. Basic Security Service includes an Open and close function as well as supporting the site Security Officer with Parking. This support grade role will work in a dual role. This means that you will be expected to support Porter the porter and security role, based in Victoria Infirmary Northwich.
Security support should:
* Have good communication skills.
* Be able to work well with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
* Be friendly, polite and helpful.
* Have a positive outlook.
* Be fit and have high levels of stamina.
* Be able to work well under pressure.
* Act calmly and quickly in emergencies.
* Be able to follow instructions.
* Be reliable, hardworking, honest and trustworthy.
* Deal sensitively with patients and visitors who are anxious, distressed or very unwell.
* Have a flexible attitude to work.
Main duties of the job
* Using special handling techniques to move expensive, specialist medical equipment from one part of the hospital to another.
* Transporting medical supplies, such as oxygen cylinders, and collecting and returning them when they are empty.
* Transporting general clinical waste and hazardous materials.
* Delivering some supplies to departments.
* Assisting the site security officer with car park management.
* Providing an open/close service.
You will be a part of the Security team within the facilities department, based at VIN and will have contact with clinical and non-clinical staff. You could work with nurses, operating department practitioners, healthcare assistants, housekeepers and other security staff.
About us
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff.
An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester "places" and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its "Be Safe Be EquiPPEd" campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Job responsibilities
* Provide a basic security support service to protect and act in a manner that helps in maintaining a safe and crime free environment.
* Patrol and manage, as instructed, the car parking facilities at Victoria Infirmary Northwich.
* Provide an open and close service in collaboration with the VIN security Officer and Trust Security Team at Leighton Hospital.
* Report and log incidents of crime and violence.
* Ensure that all policies and procedures of the Trust which affect the security of their property and the safety of employees and patients are read, understood, and carried out.
* Assist the Security Officer with Car Park management.
* Provide a Portering service in public, patient and staff areas.
SERVICE DELIVERY
* Out of normal working hours, check the external doors and ground floor windows of premises to ensure they are secure.
* Protect buildings, along with their contents, from fire damage by patrolling, exercising vigilance, raising the alarm and calling the Fire Brigade when fire is discovered or reported, reporting fire hazards to the Fire, Health and Safety Manager and Head of Department concerned.
* Receive any lost property reports and accept any found property for safe keeping, keeping a register of any found property.
* Exercise constant vigilance to detect any potential hazard likely to endanger patients, visitors or staff.
To provide a porter service in all patient, public and staff areas; to transport patients notes from and to departments as requested; to maintain entrances and exits to the premises so that they are free from litter, leaves, etc.; to transport and replace medical gas cylinders for wards and departments; to direct patients and visitors around VIN and help with patient, visitor enquiries; to collect and distribute goods within VIN.
Person Specification
Skills
* Experience of working in a Healthcare Establishment
* Ability to prioritise work
values
* A commitment to quality and safety.
* A recognition of the importance of showing respect, dignity and compassion to patients and colleagues.
Behaviours
* Must be willing to act as a role model.
* Must have the courage to speak up.
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.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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