Senior Public Safety Officer: Campus Security Leader

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Deliver healthcare with heart.

Give people a reason to smile.

Put a little love in your work.

Be honest and real, but with compasss

Bring some lagniappe into everything

Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of

See opportunities, not problems – it’s

Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each

Love what makes you, you - because we

Job summary

LCMC Health in Louisiana seeks a security professional to patrol facilities, respond to disturbances, and work with local authorities to maintain safety across hospital campuses. The role requires a high school diploma and security experience, with preference for Police Academy graduates.

Training includes active shooter preparedness and quality patient security. This on-site position emphasizes compassionate, proactive protection within a community hospital setting.

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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security experience

Education

High School Diploma/GED or equivalent

Police Academy Graduate

Job description

LCMC Health in Louisiana seeks a security professional to patrol facilities, respond to disturbances, and work with local authorities to maintain safety across hospital campuses. The role requires a high school diploma and security experience, with preference for Police Academy graduates.

Training includes active shooter preparedness and quality patient security. This on-site position emphasizes compassionate, proactive protection within a community hospital setting.