The Security / Safety Officer provides security services with a customer-service approach, focusing on professionalism, fairness, and compassion even in challenging circumstances and in accordance with policies, procedures, and training. This role inspires confidence in patients, visitors, and team members by presenting a professional, approachable, and service-oriented appearance and demeanor. The officer must be alert, observant, and ethical, complying with and enforcing all safety and security rules and regulations. They are responsible for maintaining their Department uniform and equipment in good repair. The position involves performing routine responsibilities during interior and exterior patrols to ensure safety and security, including inspections to identify vulnerabilities, hazards, and fire conditions, audits of Interim Life Safety Measures, patient valuables management, and thorough contraband searches. The officer will assist team members, patients, and visitors by providing information, directions, and physical help, and will ensure traffic control and monitor the conduct of visitors on premises, confronting unauthorized persons for questioning. This role is crucial in preventing, responding to, and investigating workplace violence, and responding to service calls such as combative or threatening patients or visitors and team member incidents. The Security / Safety Officer serves as a primary resource for de-escalation, utilizing use of force when necessary (e.g., conducted electrical weapon (CEW), handcuffing). They perform key responsibilities to plan, prevent, practice, and respond to emergencies such as lost or abducted infants/children, fire, and active threats. The officer responds immediately to emergency and crisis situations, physically intervening in accordance with training to situations that have a potential for injury. They investigate incidents that occur on Advocate Health property and complete timely and accurate reports, and address and escalate complaints to the appropriate leader, providing supporting documentation. The role includes performing liaison rounding duties to cultivate close partnerships with all departments and units, and delivering security awareness education to team members to leverage their assistance in the overall security of the site. The officer will also liaisons with federal, state, and local law enforcement and first responder agencies, and coordinates, briefs, and monitors every law enforcement prisoner patient guard to ensure policy compliance and prevent unsafe practices. Maintaining current Department training standards in radio communications, verbal de-escalation, hemorrhage control (e.g., “STOP the BLEED”), CPR, application of clinical restraints, conducted energy weapon (e.g. TASER), to include training on any/all department-issued equipment and/or requirements identified in the training academy and the Annual Training Plan is essential. Additionally, the officer assists with exterior traffic and crowd control, including parking enforcement, valet parking assist, and vehicular assistance.
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Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED