Job summary
- Main area
- security and reception
- Grade
- band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 1 hour per week (06:30 to 14:30 /14:00 to 22:00/ 10-6/8-4)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0645
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- chase farm
- Town
- enfield
- Salary
- £29,651 - £31,312 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
security support worker
band 3
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.
Job overview
to control access to forensic building
liaseing with staff and visitors
using telephones and radio's to the safty of other
to participate in all training as directed by line manager
Main duties of the job
To provide a high quality front of house security service for North London Forensic Service premises, for inpatient, outpatient service users, staff & visitors. To also ensure that only authorized personal enter the premises. To be fully conversant with, and have an understanding of any security issues in and around the Forensic Service. Have a thorough understanding of confidentiality at all times, in relation to service users, staff and visitors. The Forensic Security Support worker has to be familiar and comply with the Trusts security management procedures. To promote and create a pro-security culture amongst staff, professionals, and the public, ensuring security is everybody’s responsibility.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To check validity\Identity of all personal entering NLFS
· To monitor and process staff and visitors with reception visitor management systems within reception in both buildings.
· To follow protocols and procedures and have an awareness in liaison with contacting the emergency services, and other directorates.
· To monitor CCTV systems throughout the Forensic premises, and utilizing their own initiative in analyzing situations to report security issues.
· To ensure the the security of the Forensic key management systems within the receptions and low secure units are checked and audited. The reception key systems are checked at the beginning and at the end of the shifts.
· To ensure that all staff are booked in, on access and booked out of the units, report any discrepancies to the Security Advisor.
· To ensure that all visitors are processed and booked in and out in accordance with the security policies, ensuring that the visitor management system is fully operational, and report any faults to the I,T department.
· To be able to operate security systems and equipment located within the secure perimeter.
· Be able to check all mobile phones and hand held radios on a daily basis, and also to ensure that both sets of equipment are fully charged and operational, and are good working order.
· To assist and participate in auditing keys, and security systems within the secure perimeter.
· To participate in the recreational part of patients care and treatment, be active in patient’s ground leaves, and other therapeutic activity’s.
· To carry out searches on patients for contrabands when they return from leave and as requested.
· To actively be involved in the development of the Forensic Service Search Team and help support the wards with searching patients and wards, and using specialist equipment to help detect illicit substances.
· To ensure safe keeping of all visitors’ property and valuables that are kept in the reception lockers.
· To enroll with the service driving assessments, if so required, in order to transport patients
· To provide security & key inductions once the security induction has been completed
· Ensure that the perimeter fence is checked on the day shifts, and the internal grounds are secure at all times, and all gates and doors are checked, in accordance with the NLFS Physical Security Policy
Person specification
IT skills
Essential criteria
- shift working
- experience working in stressful evronirment
Desirable criteria
- IT skills
- Organised work method
- team working
PC skills
Essential criteria
- use of a compuer and IT related systems
front of house skills
Essential criteria
- dealing with visitors
Commuication
Essential criteria
- comunication skill
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- stuart new
- Job title
- security and front of house manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 6007
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