Door Supervisor Jobs

A door supervisor is an SIA-licensed operative responsible for controlling access to licensed premises — pubs, nightclubs, late bars, music venues, festivals — and managing conflict when it happens at the door or inside. The role is hospitality-led: Thursday to Sunday evenings, with the late shifts paying more.

The SIA Door Supervisor (DS) licence is the entry ticket. Training is around 6 days through a Get Licensed-approved provider and includes physical intervention, conflict management, and emergency first aid. Most contracts also expect a Level 2 first-aid certificate on top, and the bigger venues want body-cam familiarisation. Rates currently sit around £14-£17 an hour outside London, £18-£22 inside the M25. Event work — festivals, concerts, conferences — often pays a flat day rate of £160-£200 plus food and transport rather than an hourly rate.

Door supervision is also the licence most security workers hold first because the DS covers door work AND manned guarding — the Security Guard licence only covers the latter. Many supervisors stack body-worn camera operation, drug awareness, or close protection later. One thing to be aware of: the SIA is increasingly issuing immediate licence suspensions for use-of-force complaints, so the work carries real legal exposure that the training course barely covers.