Public Safety Officer Senior

at  LCMC Health

WHY A GREAT PLACE TO WORK:

You’re more than your job. Everyone is. And that’s what makes you great at your job—all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we’ve built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You’ll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you’ll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.
Job Description
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this department. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, and LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

• Required: High School Diploma/GED or equivalent AND 2 years of directly related Security experience.
• Preferred: Police Academy Graduate.
• 3 years of directly related Security experience will be considered in lieu of education.
  This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this department. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, and LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

Provides routine security patrols of campus, both internal and external:

• Patrols assigned areas on a constant basis to maintain safety, security, crowd control, and order.
• Responds to domestic/patient/employee/visitor disturbances, processes lost and found, and de-escalates situations involving combative/aggressive personnel.
• Works jointly with NOPD to detain persons who commit domestic violence, auto burglary, theft, drug violations, and other arrestable offenses.
• Performs special/covert operations to prevent car theft, car burglaries, etc.
• Assists victims with restraining orders.
• Attends scenario-based annual training for Active Shooter, weapons qualification, CPI, and other mandatory departmental requirements.

Reports and controls unauthorized or suspicious persons, unsafe conditions, or other irregularities:

• Identifies, badges, and restricts access for identified offenders who visit the campus.
• Enforces parking, train traffic, and semi-truck redirection.
• Responds to codes and other calls for assistance immediately unless involved in or responding to an emergency.
• Set out barricades for blocking spaces for maintenance, construction, VIP, and other events.
• Delivers food trays, lab specimens, pharmacy drugs, mail, nourishment, etc.

Assistance to staff/patient:

• Assists behavioral health, ED, and care center staff with restraining aggressive and combative patients/personnel.
• Utilizes a medical detector to search patients for weapons/contraband.
• Provides transport services for inclement weather shuttle, behavioral health patients, care center patients, rapid response medical team, staff, etc.

Equipment operation:

• Operates security screening equipment, accesses control systems, video security and intrusion detection systems, and maintains control of patient valuables given to security.