Public Safety Officer Senior (Armed) - Touro

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); Sur place; USD 42 000 - 66 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

LCMC Health in New Orleans hires a Public Safety Officer Senior to provide a visual security presence and protect patients, staff and visitors. You will screen entrants, monitor activity, and investigate lost items while coordinating with law enforcement as needed.

The role requires armed security experience, a high school diploma or GED plus 2 years in security, and training from a police academy. You will deescalate incidents, escort victims, and participate in annual firearms and baton

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED plus 2 years of direct security experience.
• Armed security experience is required.
• Police Academy training preferred.
• 3 years of related security work can substitute education.
• Knowledge of local, state and federal laws; potential law enforcement topics.
• Professionalism, ethics, laws, crisis intervention, firearms tactics and handcuffing.
• Training from a police academy is required.
• Skilled with firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
• Ability to supervise/instruct other officers on firearms, handcuffs, restraining.
• Must be able to walk and stand for long periods.
• Valid Louisiana Driver's License is required.
• Non-Violent Crisis Prevention training within orientation period.
• Annual Firearm Training and Annual Baton Training at LCMC Health are required.
• Preferred: P.O.S.T. Certification; Defensive Driving; IA HSS Certification.

Responsabilités

• Patrols assigned area to maintain safety, security, crowd control and order.
• Responds to disturbances, processes lost and found, de-escalates situations.
• Works with NOPD to detain offenders and handle incidents.
• Performs special/covert operations to prevent theft and related activities.
• Assists victims with restraining orders and supports incident response.
• Attends scenario-based annual training for various mandatory requirements.

Connaissances

Armed security

Firearms handling

Crowd control

Crisis intervention

Leadership / supervision

Communication

Formation

High School Diploma or GED

Police academy training

Description du poste

• Preferred: Police Academy Graduate.

Your job is more than a job.

The Public Safety Officer Senior provides a visual security presence to ensure a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, physicians and staff. Screens anyone entering the hospital, monitors all activity of guests as they go in and out of the hospital, attempt to prevent any mishaps and disturbances within the facility. Investigates any complaint of lost or stolen items from staff or patient.

Your every day

• Patrols assigned area on a constant basis to maintain safety, security, crowd control and order.
• Responds to domestic/patient/employee/visitor disturbances, processes lost and found and deescalates 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 situation.
• Sets out barricades for blocking spaces for maintenance, construction, VIP and other events.
• Delivers food trays, lab specimen, 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 patient 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, access control systems, video security and intrusion detection systems, and maintains control of patient valuables given to security.

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.

Your must haves

• Required: High School Diploma/GED or equivalent AND 2 years of directly related Security experience.
• Required: Must have armed experience
• Preferred: Police Academy Graduate.
• 3 years of directly related Security experience will be considered in lieu of education.
• Must have knowledge of local, state and federal laws that may include organized training from a Law Enforcement Academy Topics.
• Professionalism, ethics, laws and criminal codes, crisis intervention, universal precautions, firearms defensive tactics and handcuffing.
• Training from a police academy.
• Must be skilled with firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
• Ability to supervise and instruct other officers on the proper use of firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
• Must have the ability to walk and stand for long periods of time.
• Interact with others who may be criminal, violent, disruptive, combative, disoriented, etc.
• Required: Valid Louisiana Driver's License
• Required: Non-Violent Crisis Prevention - Crisis Prevention Institute [Required within orientation period.]
• Required: Annual Firearm Training - LCMC Health
• Required: Annual Baton Training - LCMC Health
• Preferred: P.O.S.T. Certification - Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement (LCLE) [Required if officer has outside law enforcement powers.]
• Preferred: Defensive Driving Certification - Defensive Driving Certification Issuer
• Preferred: Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator - International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS)

Work Shift

Variable Hours (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Touro

Touro, at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.