Package Description
This is a permanent full-time role, working up to 40 hours per week on 12-hour day and night shifts. Additional overtime may be available.
Salary: £13.80 per hour (Annual salary circa £28,600)
Staff Benefits: In addition to being part of a great team you will be entitled to a range of benefits that include:
- 30 days holidays and 4 days public holidays.
- Parking within the campus grounds. The campus is easily accessed by car and bus; there is a bus stop located outside the campus serving several routes across the city and to rail stations.
- Membership of Westwoods gym and health club which offers a range of excellent fitness and leisure facilities including a 25m swimming pool.
- Free lunchtime meals during term time, and at other times when catering is provided, and you are on duty.
- Life insurance scheme.
- Excellent Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- You will be opted into the Fettes College Pension Plan after 3 months’ service. This scheme is a money purchase one, operating as a salary exchange plan. The College will contribute a minimum of 8% of your basic annual salary to the Plan and you will be required to contribute a minimum of 2% of basic annual salary. If you contribute 10% or more, the College will contribute 12%.
- Access to discounted healthcare, additional life insurance, shopping discounts, etc through our benefits portal 4me.
The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a diligent, responsible and approachable individual to join Fettes College as a Security Officer within the Security Department.
The Security Team’s primary objective is to provide a professional, proportionate and discreet security service that supports a safe and secure environment in which students can learn, our staff can work and visitors to Fettes College are welcomed appropriately. The current Security Team consists of six full time officers carrying out general security and custodian duties within the College and as part of the wider Estates Team, having reception and postal responsibilities. Experience working in Security is not essential and this role may suit someone looking for a career change, looking to work with an employer of choice with excellent benefits.
Main Responsibilities
Please see the full Job Description for duties and responsibilities for this role
The Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Responsible, reliable, punctual and organised.
- Confident, personable and approachable with a helpful attitude.
- Ability to remain calm and professional when dealing with challenging or unexpected situations.
- Able to exercise sound judgement and know when to escalate an issue.
- Computer literate.
- Smart and professional in presentation, wearing the uniform provided.
- Impeccable integrity.
- Good standard of fitness and overall health.
- Willingness to undertake required training, including safeguarding, security and emergency procedures.
Desired
- Clean full driving license.
- Previous customer-facing experience
About the school/organisation
ABOUT FETTES
The school stands on a magnificent site of approximately 100 acres, within walking distance of Edinburgh’s city centre and is a leading HMC co-educational independent boarding and day school, with a Prep school for students starting at age 7 and from September 2025 a Pre-Prep was introduced. Known for its academic excellence, Fettes is unique in Scotland in following the English curriculum of GCSE examinations and the dual pathway of A Level and International Baccalaureate (IB). Fettes has a strong focus on pastoral care and all-round education, providing their students with ‘A place to live. A place to learn. A place to grow’. Founded by Sir William Fettes in 1870, it was originally a boy’s school and started admitting girls in 1970. The main building was designed by one of Scotland's leading architects, David Bryce. We are a community of more than 1000 individuals, made up of just under 700 students and over 300 dedicated staff.
Aims
Fettes College aims to nurture the individual while fostering a happy, well-ordered and caring community with strong family values at its core. To this end, we will do our utmost to ensure our students:
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Receive the highest possible quality of education within a boarding environment
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Feel safe, valued, have a sense of personal worth and are thoughtful and considerate of the needs of others, possessing a willingness to take on responsibility
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Develop their self-confidence, integrity, emotional resilience, loyalty, good manners and humour, leadership skills and teamwork
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Value a sense of community and service, and develop a clear sense of right and wrong, equipping them for life beyond Fettes
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Are provided with equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexuality, ethnic origin race, or religion
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Are encouraged to stretch and challenge themselves in everything they undertake
