Healthcare Security & Safety Officer

Nemours-Children; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Nemours is seeking a Public Security Officer to join our team at Nemours Children’s Hospital – Delaware in Wilmington. You will protect patients, visitors and associates by maintaining peace and order across the campus.

This role involves prevention, investigation, and de-escalation, with responsibilities in escort duties, access control and emergency drills. A high school diploma is required and security officer experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• High school diploma required.
• Security officer experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide protection for patients, visitors, and associates by maintaining peace and order at Nemours Children’s Hospital – Delaware (NCH-D).
• Prevention, detection, investigation and reporting of unlawful and unsafe activities within the Hospital and contiguous properties and buildings. Investigations include 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.
• Provide escort of unauthorized individuals from the campus and prevent patient elopement and abduction.
• Conduct fire, evacuation, and miscellaneous emergency management drills as required by the State of Delaware, the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
• Investigate violations of Nemours Standards of Behavior as directed by Nemours Administration, Human Resources, Risk, Legal and Public Safety department leadership.
• 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 safe vehicle transportation or ambulance support for patients and families, as needed.
• Provide one on one patient monitoring for inpatient units; patients assist for aggressive or unstable patients; 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.
• Provide first responder assessment of threats against staff, patients, and families.

Skills

De-escalation techniques

Access control

Public safety

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Nemours is seeking a Public Security Officer to join our team at Nemours Children’s Hospital – Delaware in Wilmington. You will protect patients, visitors and associates by maintaining peace and order across the campus.

This role involves prevention, investigation, and de-escalation, with responsibilities in escort duties, access control and emergency drills. A high school diploma is required and security officer experience is preferred.