Security Manager- Dungavel IRC
| Company: | Mitie |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | ML10 6RF |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 16 Sept 2026 |
| Closing date: | 16 Oct 2026 |
Summary
Job objectives and responsibilities
-To manage the effective operation of all security and intelligence information systems to ensure a safe and secure environment throughout theCentre
-Provide advice, coaching and support to staff in order to maximise the efficient and effective running of the security function
Main duties
- Intelligence Management & Threat Assessment
-Security Information Reports (SIRs): Reviewing, analyzing, and actioning SIRs submitted by staff regarding safety, illicit items, or behavioral changes.
-Counter-Corruption: Identifying and mitigating internal threats, such as staff collusion, trafficking of contraband, or breaches of professional standards.
-Escape Risk Monitoring: Assessing and implementing custom protocols for residents flagged under the Managing Escape or Abscond Risk.
- Incident Prevention & Emergency Response
-Contingency Planning: Designing, updating, and testing emergency procedures for high-risk events like riots, fires, hostage situations
-Incident Escalation: Categorising and reporting critical incidents to the Home Office Compliance Team and senior estate directors in real-time.
-Post-Incident Reviews: Leading formal de-briefs, reviewing CCTV or body-worn camera footage, and updating protocols.
- Physical & Technical Security Controls
-Access Control: Managing the movement of staff, legal representatives, and external visitors. This includes authorizing and logging restricted IT hardware (like visitor laptops).
-Contraband Interdiction: Overseeing searching regimes (room searches, body searches, and visitor screenings) to prevent drugs, weapons, and illicit mobile phones from entering.
-Systems Maintenance: Monitoring the operational status of CCTV, biometric locks, perimeter fencing, and alarm networks.
- Safer Detention & Safeguarding Integration
-Use of Force Oversight: Monitoring any physical interventions by Detainee Custody Officers (DCOs) to ensure they are strictly necessary, reasonable, and proportionate.
-Vulnerability Collaboration: Working closely with the Safer Detention and healthcare teams. Security intelligence must actively feed into ACDT plans to support residents at risk of self-harm.
-Night State Operations: Structuring and enforcing the specific night operating proceduresto ensure safety when staffing levels are reduced.
- Compliance & External Liaison
-Audit Readiness: Keeping the facility continuously compliant for inspections by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) and the on-site Home Office Compliance Team.
-Police & Escort Coordination: Acting as the main point of contact for Police and escorting contractors when high-risk individuals are being transferred or deported.
Person Specification
Essential
-Experience of working within a custodial environment is required for this role
-Relevant experience of managing others: setting objectives, 1:2:1 reviews and performance management, leading and inspiring a team
-Confidence in working with individuals with behaviours that may challenge the services
-Able to assess and manage risk of individuals
-Competent in Basic-level skills in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel and central IT systems (e.g. Data entry and ability to access information about residents)
-Inter-personal skills: Confident engaging with a wide and diverse range of people, with sensitivity, dignity and respect
Health and Safety responsibilities
-Follow Group and company policies and procedures at all times
-Adhere to agreed outreach methods and risk assessment to ensure own personal safety dealing with service users
-Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment
-Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received.
Information Security
-Ensure compliance with Mitie's information security procedures in all activities
-Proactively identify and report security risks to your manager
-Report actual and suspected security incidents.
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