We are seeking to appoint a part time Security Officer for Yarm School’s various sites on Friday and Saturday nights for a commencement date as soon as possible. The School Security Officer provides out of hours first line support to staff and visitors, is a presence to improve site security and ensures that security protocols are followed in relation to locking down and opening buildings as required.
The successful candidate will need to be confident in working alone on night shifts, to have a professional demeanour and be responsible for working to their own initiative. There may be difficult scenarios that occur, so the post holder must be able to proactively react to these in line with the School’s policies and procedures and communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
The annual salary is £17,202 inclusive of shift allowance
Shifts are Friday 2030-0600 and Saturday 1730-0800
The responsibilities of duties of the role are as follows:
•Overall responsibility for ensuring the security of the extensive school sites during the shift.
• Acting as a first line support to employees and visitors to site, providing a professional and friendly service.
• Fire, security and building systems monitoring.
• Traffic/pedestrian management on the school site during shift.
• Closing and opening of the school site and auditorium.
• Carry out security patrols of the sites, ensuring lock up processes are adhered to and alarms are active.
• Monitoring of site CCTV.
• Reporting any incidents of vandalism or security breaches to the Estates Manager via the Incident Log.
• In extreme circumstances calling and reporting the incident to the necessary emergency service team.
• Carrying communication devices at all times (mobile phone and radio) whilst on shift, and being able to clearly communicate.
• Act professionally when liaising with stakeholders of the school and the wider public.
• Assistance with car parking should there be a function.
• Overseeing the return of school trips to the site (often these can be late at night), ensuring that any facilities are secured and locked after use.
• Assistance with the clearing of snow and gritting as required.
• The Security Officer will be expected to demonstrate a commitment to the aims and ethos of the School and adhere to the Policies of the School in the
performance of their duties.
• Ensure outside site security is ongoing during PAA and School events and working with the Auditorium
Security Team to ensure site wide security.
• Adhere to the Lone Working Policy and maintain regular contact with the monitoring station.
• Accept and participate in any additional training required by the school.
Yarm School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidate will be subject to vetting checks including an enhanced DBS check. A criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to working in the School. Applicants who are invited to interview should provide disclose and provide details of any criminal record under separate, confidential cover before attending the interview. A copy of the School’s policy on Vetting and Suitability Checks and the DBS Code of Practice may be obtained from the website vacancy page. This post is not pupil-facing as such, but nevertheless involves substantial opportunity for access to children and is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that you will be required to confirm
that you are not on the DBS Children’s Barred List or disqualified from working with children and further to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final
warnings that are not “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) or other Orders of the Courts made against you, even if they would otherwise be regarded as ‘spent’ under this Act.
To apply, please send completed applications (that can be downloaded on the website vacancy page) to HR@yarmschool.org no later than noon on 18/11/2024. We are unable to accept standalone CV's. The full job description and application form can be found on the website vacancy page at