£13.34 per hour
London
Full time, part time, permanent
Job description from Heathrow Airport
Description
Location: Heathrow Airport
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £13.34 p/h (Annual Salary of £27,755 FTE, rising to at least £29,257 in January 2024 and £31,354 after 2 years’ service)
Hours: Full & Part-Time shifts available
What hours are available?
When applying, you can express a preference for one of the following shift patterns. Whatever you choose, the shifts themselves are approximately 8.5 hours.
Full Time:
Lates (F/T): Afternoon and evening shifts (finishing as late as 23:00). Four days on, two days off.
Core Combination (F/T): Mixed early (starting as early as 04:15), late (finishing as late as 22:45) and some night shifts (e.g. 21:00 – 06:00). Four days on, two days off.
Part Time:
Weekend Lates (P/T): Afternoon and evening shifts (13:30 – 22:00), on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Variable Lates (P/T): Afternoon and evening shifts (finishing as late as 23:00), in a pattern that includes all days (including some weekends) and equates to an average of 20 hours per week.
Core Combination (P/T): Mixed early (starting as early as 04:15), late (finishing as late as 22:45) and night shifts (e.g. 21:00 – 06:00), equating to an average of 20 hours per week.
Once you’ve completed your training, you’ll know your shifts 12 months in advance, so you can plan around them. Swaps are often possible, providing even greater flexibility, but it’s important that you’re available for all shifts on the pattern you apply for.
Responsibilities
Like everyone here, you‘ll be passionate about creating the best Heathrow experience for all our passengers. Throughout each shift, you’ll be greeting people, patrolling the airport, monitoring secure areas and generally putting everyone at ease.
You’ll also be carrying out searches and safety checks on passengers, colleagues, and the items they bring through the airport. Our Security Officers only search people of their own gender, of course. Which is why we recruit separately for male and female roles.
Yours will be the friendly face that offers passengers a warm welcome as well as a constant reassuring presence, alert to everything that’s going on around you, ready to spot potential threats and responding rapidly if and when you do.
Qualifications
The qualities we look for are more common than you might imagine. You don’t need security experience or an SIA licence. We’ll give you six weeks of full-time training on full pay before you start in your role, along with ongoing mentoring and support to ensure you continue to thrive.
What you will need, however, is:
- a warm, engaging personality and positive, friendly approach
- sharp attention to detail
- fluency in written and spoken English – additional languages are a bonus
- the physical fitness to cope with long periods of standing, sitting, bending and walking
- full colour vision and hearing that meets our required standard
You must also be:
- 18 or older when you begin your training
- a UK resident of three years standing, with the right to work in the UK
- happy to complete our pre-employment medical, criminal record and counter-terrorism checks – this usually takes 8–15 weeks, depending on your personal history
- available to complete full-time training for your first six weeks, even if you’ve chosen to work part-time thereafter.
