Estates & Facilities are the stewards of King’s extensive property portfolio that enables innovative teaching and pioneering research across five campuses in central London. Made up of over 1,000 talented staff with a wide variety of roles servicing our campuses and community; together we ensure that students and staff have the estate, space, and services that enhance their academic experience while preserving and future proofing our iconic estate as King’s approaches it’s bicentenary.

The security supervisor is at the heart of what we do, driving excellence, maintaining standards, and making local decisions to reduce risk and safeguard campus users, while delivering the highest levels of customer service.

The Security Supervisor holds a key leadership role in the delivery of security operations across the university, leading, guiding, and supporting the security team to ensure a safe and secure environment for students, staff, faculty, and visitors. This role involves supervising security personnel, monitoring campus activities, and coordinating responses to incidents and emergencies.

The role requires an appropriate level of physical fitness to perform patrols, respond to emergencies, and handle potential physical confrontations and supervisors are required to undertake shift-based work, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

The post holder is required to communicate in a harmonious and professional manner with students, staff and visitors, and ensure the team is delivering service to ‘Fit For Kings’ standards and expectations. This is a full time You’ll work a stable 4-on / 4-off core roster, with the remaining 8 hours per week held in a "bank." These banked hours are used flexibly to cover busy periods, totaling about 30 extra shifts across the year. You get the stability of a 4-off pattern with the high-earning potential of a 50-hour week. This will be offered on a indefinite contract.

1.      Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills – ability to work collaboratively with others, provide direction and build effective relationships with internal and external colleagues and service users.

2.      Proven customer service skills with an understanding of customer and stakeholder expectations and an appreciation of the different demands these place on the role of the security supervisor.

3.      Proven ability to recognise both positive and negative aspects of individual and team performance, and to take steps to acknowledge good, and address poor performance.

4.      Proven ability to take control of the response to security or safety-critical incidents, implementing agreed protocols and directing others, to achieve positive outcomes.

5.      Proven ability to make sound decisions under pressure, taking reasonable and proportionate steps to solve problems.

1.      Ability to assess, evaluate and understand information to inform practical solutions.

2.      Ability to make effective use of core IT systems, including (but not limited to) Microsoft Office, as well as systems used for incident reporting / recording, entry control, and other operational systems which may be used.

3.      Ability to create clear, structured, and professional documents that communicate information effectively.

You do not need a SIA badge for this role(s). However, you do need good customer service, a competent manner and good organisational skills.

At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.