Ministry of Defence

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• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 3LU

About the job

Job summary

Do you want a career where you can make a real difference? Join the Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) to protect Defence from threats such as crime, terrorism, espionage, and sabotage by providing the highest quality of security services through professionalism, excellence, and trust.

We are looking for a Security Supervisor to join our Gold Standard Security Service and play a crucial role to the business requiring resilience, alertness, and organisation. Due to the nature of the role and its high-profile locations, it is essential that our Security Supervisors have a strong work ethic, great teamwork, customer service, communication, and management skills. We are looking for individuals who are willing to go above and beyond to support security operations across the Defence estate. If you can demonstrate this from past or current experiences, we want to hear from you and see this detailed in your CV.

You will normally work 48 hours per week including a daily meal break (43 hours net). This will be 5 x 9.6 hours shifts each day Monday to Friday between 06:00 and 22:00 hrs on a roster basis. This will include being rostered in a flexible manner (termed a flexible week) within the shift roster. During the flexible week, the working days and shifts will routinely be stipulated in advance but may be changed at short notice, (this should be no less than 48 hours). The exact shift pattern will be explained in full during the interview.

Licences

Full UK Manual Driving Licence

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Leadership

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £29,985, Ministry of Defence contributes £8,686 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time. We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

Please follow the link to visit the Discover My Benefits site which showcases the benefits and discounts offered when working as a civilian for the MOD. https://discovermybenefits.mod.gov.uk/civilian/

The MOD Discover My Benefits page lists the full set of benefits. Some of the many benefits you will receive include: 

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. 
• A generous annual leave allowance. 
• Ability to roll over up to 10 days annual leave per year. 
• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to for volunteer military or emergency service reserve commitments. 
• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year. 
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave. 
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing. 
• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club, Gym and Cafeterias and Shops. 
• Blue Light and Defence Discount Cards 
• A generous annual leave entitlement 
• Free MGS Security Uniform 
• As part of your induction, you will attend a two-week residential Foundation Security Course to support in achieving your objectives to a high standard. 

Learning & Development 

• As part of your induction, you will attend a two-week residential Foundation Security Course to support in achieving your objectives to a high standard. 
• Professional and Personal Development of skills. 
• Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning and Defence Learning Environment. 
• Ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by MGS. 

This post does not offer any assistance with Relocation Allowances. 

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Discover My Benefits: 

Please follow the link to visit the Discover My Benefits site which showcases the benefits and discounts offered when working as a civilian for the MOD. https://discovermybenefits.mod.gov.uk/civilian/ 

This post does not offer any assistance with Relocation Allowances. 

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts. 

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected. 

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : MGS Recruitment Hub
• Email : mgs-rh@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSCivPers-ResourcingTeam1@mod.gov.uk

Further information

Please see Further Information document attached

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