Security Officer - Per Diem

Job Summary

Under the direction of the Senior Manager, Security Services and within established organizational and departmental policies and procedures, responsible for performing a variety of duties, including patrolling, and monitoring an assigned area.

Essential Job Functions

• Respond to security and life safety issues as needed.
• Tour buildings and grounds periodically, minimum of 4 rounds per shift, examining doors, windows, and gates to ensure they are secure and not tampered with.
• Confront unauthorized persons for questioning, route or detain them, or telephone police for assistance, according to circumstances.
• Utilize emergency fire equipment (alarms, fire extinguishers) adequately and appropriately.
• Record and report any safety violations, plant equipment failure, plumbing, heating, or electrical malfunctions.
• Check persons for unauthorized weapons or contraband as requested by medical staff and confiscate and store weapons/contraband as required.
• Notify police department when appropriate.
• Respond to all calls for assistance, maintaining a 100% response rate.
• Document details on the daily shift reports.
• Check vehicles for signs of theft/vandalism.
• Enforce parking policy with issuance of written warnings.
• Check condition of parking lots/sidewalks in inclement weather and notify/assist appropriate personnel for sanding and shoveling.
• Actively check exterior lights to ensure all lights are working properly and report any lighting that is not working properly.
• Complete required paperwork to account for all security related actions.
• Complete all reports by the end of assigned shift, including incident reports, occurrence forms, injury reports, and fall occurrence forms.
• Notify Senior Manager, Security Services of major incidents.
• Initiate investigations for all security related incidents.
• Participate in appropriate role in hospital disasters, fires, drills, and other emergency situations.
• Respond appropriately to violent/psychiatric patients.
• Provide crowd control and dispersal when appropriate and notify police department for assistance when needed.
• Exercise care in the operation of hospital equipment and reference material.
• Adhere to strict confidentiality guidelines.
• Maintain established hospital and departmental policies and procedures, objectives, confidentiality, quality improvement program, compliance, safety, infection control, and environmental standards.
• Maintain professional growth and development through attendance at seminars, workshops, conferences or in-services, professional affiliations, or journals.
• Physically must be able to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to run to any emergency within the hospital and be able to verbally and physically control an emergency situation upon arrival if necessary.
• Strong sight and hearing abilities needed in order to effectively deal with diverse and emergency situations.
• Ability to use enough force to subdue or restrain someone if necessary.
• Use of access control and database software, communications equipment, and first aid equipment.
• Ability to troubleshoot systems when necessary.
• Meet annual competency and retraining requirements.
• Attend meetings as required.
• Perform other functions/duties as requested.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• AVADE (Workplace Violence Prevention training) required within three (3) months of hire
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills required
• Demonstrated basic computer skills required
• Demonstrated good judgment required; demonstrated ability to interpret and adhere to both verbal and written instructions required
• 1 year experience / 21 years of age
• Healthcare experience / Law enforcement experience
• Availability to work weekends and holidays required
• Completion of Handcuffing certification within 2 weeks of hire
• Completion of IAHSS basic certification within 90 days of hire
• Exposure to Oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray including end user instruction and training
• BLS within 90 days