Security Guard

We are Derwent Students, we are a ‘profit for social purpose' organisation providing affordable student accommodation.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with customer-focused people, attention-to-detail people and positive people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

More about your role

Security Safeguards are highly motivated colleagues who believe in first class customer satisfaction. We see this role as being very customer focused with a friendly and welcoming approach.

This is part of our mantra of ‘brining places to life', our security safeguard team will put our people first, ensuring most importantly of all, that students and guests feel welcome and safe at their halls of residence.

Your role will involve carrying out student accommodation checks, responding to calls from students and taking part in regular patrols on campus.

This role is 4 on and 4 off rota working 8pm-4am

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More about you

It is essential to hold a current SIA licence and to have experience in a similar role.

You will be a confident communicator and enjoy working in a customer focused role, ensuring the safety of our students are at the forefront of your mind.

The ideal applicant will be an approachable team member to students, colleagues and the university team dealing with any issues or unusual circumstances that occur.

The benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We like to invest in our people; therefore, the successful job holders will have the opportunity to go undergo training within the company including the opportunity to enrol on apprenticeship courses.

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please call the recruitment team on 01772 666555.

Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.

If you are using a mobile device such as an iPad then ensure your CV is stored in the cloud, we currently support Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox.