Access Control, Administrative Skills, Documentation, Emergency Response, Equipment Maintenance/Repair, Fire Alarm, Fire Prevention, Fire Safety, Firefighting, Hospital, Hospital/Healthcare Construction, Operations, Parking Enforcement, Policy Implementation, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Record Keeping, Regulations, Reporting Skills, Safety/Work Safety
Duties and Responsibilities
- Patrols the buildings and premises to prevent fire, theft, vandalism, and intrusion.
- Patrol parking lots to ensure the safety of individuals and the security of parked vehicles.
- Reports all suspicious activity, parking violations and abandoned vehicles.
- Responds to emergency situations such as accidents and injuries, fire alarms, crimes in progress and safety hazards.
- Provides assistance, summons proper authorities, and polices area to maintain order, safety and to protect property.
- Employs all necessary equipment to include Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during situations that are deemed unsafe and during interactions with precaution patients.
- Responds to inquiries for advice or assistance from employees, students, visitors, and other customers; provides physical restraint of psychiatric patients and others as needed.
- Monitors the conduct of visitors on premises; confronts unauthorized persons for questioning as needed; secures weapons and contraband.
- Escorts personnel and visitors to parking lots and hospital buildings.
- Maintains post as assigned in accordance with training.
- Notifies police in case of theft, breaking and entering or other related criminal matters requiring notification of authorities.
- Assists in investigations.
- Maintains records, prepares incident reports and other documents pertinent to safety and security activities and attends hearings.
- Conducts routine visual inspections; reports safety and/or fire hazards or security violations.
- Coordinates and/or responds to on site fire drills; responds to on site fire alarms and assists the responding fire department.
- Secures and/or unlocks offices and facilities.
- Supports the parking policy, enforcing parking regulations, providing traffic management, and performing other related duties.
- Complies with all department and organizational policies and procedures.
- Assists with care and maintenance of department equipment and supplies.
- Performs Security Operations duties as assigned.
- Secures patient valuables and found property.
- Prepares clear, concise, and factual incident reports.
- Ensures all documentation is submitted as required prior to end of shift.
- Completes vehicle checklist.
- Completes monthly inspections as required to include but not limited to panic alarm inspections, fire extinguisher inspections, door alarm inspections to include supporting documentation.
- Complete security access requests within the badge access control system as needed.
- Willing and capable of working at any post within an assigned setting.
- Assists with the daily operations of the shift to include but not limited to documentation, patrols, responses, post assignments, escalation of incidents and serves as a Charge Officer as needed.
- Provides administrative support for programs and policy implementation.
- In the absence of a Supervisor or Security Officer III, conducts shift huddles reviewing incidents from previous shift, current situational awareness information, and upcoming events requiring security intervention and/or assistance.
- Assists Supervisors by ensuring appropriate staffing for oncoming shift if necessary.