Group Security Manager Band 7

About the Role

Based within the Estates and Facilities Compliance team, this management role will deliver an environment that is safe and secure promoting the highest standards of clinical care to patients in all settings across the Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group (LCHG).

With a Group reach, the post holder will act as the primary interface between LCHG stakeholders and the external security services, working in close partnership with both internal and external stakeholders such as the police, staff, visitors, patients, professional representative bodies, and trade unions. Interpreting national standards, healthcare guidance, and relevant legislation, the role shall be responsible for advising and monitoring all aspects of security management for the Group. It will lead the development of security-related policies, procedures, and safe systems of work, providing excellence in security management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of security professionals providing specialist training, advice, and guidance to all levels of management and staff regarding, but not limited to: CCTV access, development of door access policy, and oversight of the management of door access by the external security provider linked to violence prevention and reduction, restraint reduction, and the management of verbal and non-verbal aggressive behaviors contrary to LCHG core values.
• Provide specialist advice to staff on safety matters, both in relation to preventing violence and aggression, as well as liaison with the local Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, and other Specialists in the surrounding areas.
• Investigate incidents of security, violence, aggression, or where restraint holds have resulted in a RIDDOR, and share lessons learned locally and through the quarterly security management specialist report to the Security Management Safety Group (SMSG) and the Health and Safety Committee.
• Be aware of the complex reasons for violence within services and participate in strategic planning, policy development, and training to promote a change in culture.
• Ensure that appropriate steps are taken to create a pro-security culture within the Group so that staff and patients accept responsibility, ensuring that where security incidents/breaches occur, they are detected, reported, and investigated.
• Lead on the prevention and reduction of violence, aggression, and criminality.
• Support violence/crime prevention/reduction and contribute to the Group risk register enabling risks to be prioritized and effectively managed, including the development of the departmental business and annual work plan to reduce those risks.
• Analyze and interpret complex data in relation to security incidents and maintain responsibility for the capture of, and quality of, data available to the Group, providing recommendations in reports.