Constable II

Nemours-Children; Wilmington (DE); Sur place; USD 42 000 - 64 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nemours Children’s Health is seeking an armed Constable II to join the Public Safety team in Wilmington, DE. The role focuses on protecting staff, patients, visitors, and associates, operating in an armed capacity with a firearm and taser.

Responsibilities include patrolling hospital premises, enforcing access control, performing inspections, and responding to alarms. The position requires state licensing, relevant experience, and ongoing certifications (CPR/AED, Tasers).

Qualifications

• High School Diploma and 1 year of specialized training.
• State of Delaware Constable License required.
• Minimum 1 year security or law enforcement experience.
• Must have a valid State Driver’s license and operate hospital vehicles.
• Must pass criminal background and MMPI testing.

Responsabilités

• Patrol hospital buildings, stairwells, and grounds to monitor interior and exterior areas.
• Prevent, detect, investigate, and report unlawful and unsafe activities within the Hospital and adjacent properties.
• Apply non-violent verbal intervention and de-escalation to mitigate disruptive behavior; separate combative individuals.
• Provide first responder threat assessments for staff, patients, and families.
• Conduct fire, evacuation, and emergency drills per regulatory requirements.
• Provide access control and enforce visitor restrictions for hospital areas.
• One-on-one patient monitoring and escorts for in-custody visitors; supervise safety.
• Exercise detention and arrest powers when necessary.
• Manage Public Safety entry stations and control campus access.
• Respond to alarms (doors, motion, duress, fire, medical).
• Escort unauthorized individuals off campus; prevent elopement/abduction.
• Support crowds and evacuations; ensure safe vehicle transport when needed.
• Parking enforcement and traffic control.

Connaissances

De-escalation

Patrolling

Access control

Detention/arrest powers

Formation

High School Diploma

1 year of specialized training beyond high school

State of Delaware Constable License

CPR and AED certifications

Constable certification (Delaware)

Taser certification

Background check and MMPI testing

Description du poste

Nemours is seeking a Constable II to join our team in Wilmington, DE.

The Constable II provides protection for staff, patients, visitors and associates by maintaining peace and order at Nemours Children’s Hospital. The Constable II works in an armed capacity with firearm and taser.

Primary Functions

Patrolling hospital buildings, stairwells, and grounds both on foot and in vehicles to provide monitoring of interior and exterior of Hospital buildings to validate that no threats exist, and all exterior doors are secure.

• Prevention, detection, investigation and reporting of unlawful and unsafe activities within the Hospital and contiguous properties and buildings; investigation includes interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects, collecting, reviewing, and preserving evidence and conducting searches and surveillance.
• Application of non-violent verbal intervention and de-escalation skills to mitigate disruptive behavior and dangerous activity; ability to verbally de-escalate hostile situations and physically separate and control combative individuals.

Provide first responder assessment of threats against staff, patients, and families.

Conduct fire, evacuation, and miscellaneous emergency management drills as require by the State of Delaware, the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Provide access control into the Hospital and specific areas of the Hospital as well as apply visitor restrictions limitation measures instituted by the Hospital.

• Provide one on one patient monitoring for inpatient units; patients assist for aggressive or unstablepatients; escorts for patients in custody, visitor designated as tier two or three sex offenders, and visitors with history of aggressive behavior or domestic issues; patient searches; and room safety sanitization for suicidal/homicidal patients.
• Exercise the powers of detention and arrest, when necessary.
• Manage Public Safety entry stations that control access to the hospital.
• Respond to various types of alarms: door alarms, motion detectors, duress alarms, fire alarms, medical emergency alarms and other Public Safety incidents.
• Provide escort of unauthorized individuals from the campus and prevent patient elopement and abduction.
• Performs all assigned work safely adhering to established departmental rules and practices. Reports to supervisors in a timely fashion all activities or conditions that are in the violation of established processes.
• Assists with crowd control and evacuations when required.
• Provide safe vehicle transportation or ambulance support for patients and families, as needed.
• Parking enforcement and traffic control.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required, 1 year of specialized training beyond High School
• State of Delaware Constable License required
• Minimum of 1 year security or law enforcement experience required
• Must have a valid State Driver’s license and be able to operate authorized hospital vehicles.
• Must successfully pass a criminal background and MMPI testing (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory).

Must successfully obtain and maintain requirements for certification as a Constable in accordance with the Delaware State Police Professional Licensing section as established by Delaware Code (Title 10, Chapter 56).

Must successfully obtain and maintain certification in the use of a Taser through Certified Axon Instructor

• Must successfully acquire and maintain CPR and AED certifications.

About Us

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children’s health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Job Info

• Job Identification 17346
• Job Category Non-Clinical Support Staff
• Posting Date 09/28/2026, 08:45 PM
• Degree Level High School Graduate
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE, 19803, US (On-site)