Public Safety Officer Senior - $$ Sign-on Bonus Available $$

LCMC Health•New Orleans, LA

About The Position

The Public Safety Officer Senior provides routine internal and external security patrols of campus to maintain safety, security, crowd control, and order. The role responds to disturbances and calls for assistance, helps de-escalate situations involving aggressive or combative people, and works jointly with NOPD on detention related to arrestable offenses. The officer also performs special or covert operations intended to prevent vehicle theft and burglaries and assists victims with restraining orders. The position helps identify and restrict access for offenders, addresses unsafe or suspicious conditions, enforces parking and traffic directions, and sets barricades for maintenance, construction, VIPs, and events. Additional duties include helping staff and patients, searching patients for weapons or contraband, providing transport services, delivering items such as food trays and lab specimens, and operating security screening, access control, video security, and intrusion detection equipment. The officer maintains control of patient valuables given to security and attends required annual scenario-based training.

Requirements

High school diploma, GED, or equivalent and 2 years of directly related security experience.
Alternatively, 3 years of directly related security experience may be considered in lieu of education.

Nice To Haves

Police Academy graduate.

Responsibilities

Conduct routine internal and external patrols of assigned campus areas to maintain safety, security, crowd control, and order.
Respond to domestic, patient, employee, and visitor disturbances; process lost and found; and de-escalate situations involving combative or aggressive people.
Work jointly with NOPD to detain people who commit domestic violence, auto burglary, theft, drug violations, and other arrestable offenses.
Perform special or covert operations to prevent car theft and car burglaries.
Assist victims with restraining orders.
Attend annual scenario-based training, including Active Shooter, weapons qualification, CPI, and other mandatory departmental requirements.
Report and control unauthorized or suspicious people, unsafe conditions, and other irregularities.
Identify and badge offenders and restrict their access to campus.
Enforce parking rules and redirect train traffic and semi-trucks.
Respond immediately to codes and other calls for assistance unless involved in or responding to an emergency.
Set out barricades to block spaces for maintenance, construction, VIPs, and other events.
Deliver food trays, lab specimens, pharmacy drugs, mail, nourishment, and other items.
Assist behavioral health, ED, and care center staff with restraining aggressive and combative patients or personnel.
Use a medical detector to search patients for weapons or contraband.
Provide transport services for inclement-weather shuttles, behavioral health and care center patients, the rapid response medical team, and staff.
Operate security screening equipment, access control systems, video security systems, and intrusion detection systems.
Maintain control of patient valuables given to security.