Security Officer - Casual
St. Croix Health is looking for a Casual Security Officer to join our team. Availability to work both day and night 12-hour shifts. Day Shift 6 AM - 6 PM, Night Shift 6 PM - 6 AM, including weekdays and weekends.
This position is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors and staff by patrolling and monitoring the healthcare center campus and exterior grounds.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Provides security presence on Healthcare Center Campus and exterior grounds
- Provides physical on-site uniformed security presence primarily to the Emergency Department (ED), but also to all areas of the healthcare center campus and exterior grounds
- Conducts rounding of the healthcare center and exterior grounds
Assists departments with delivering great patient care
- Assist Emergency Department staff and law enforcement as needed. This can include monitoring or securing patients brought for treatment or other medical needs
- Assist with patient transports within the healthcare center campus, restraining or controlling patients as directed, transporting biological samples to lab when requested
- Assist visitors with unlocking vehicles, assist patients and guests into or out of vehicles, provide wheelchairs when needed and any other customer service need
- Assist ambulance crews with loading and unloading patients and securing patients and other medical properties
Manage facility security
- Respond to fire and other emergency alarms and calls
- Secures the helicopter landing pad or zone
- Answers alarms and investigates disturbances
- Rounding of healthcare campus premises to prevent and detect signs of intrusion and ensure security of doors, windows and gates
- Work as Hospital Switchboard during specified hours of the day
Maintains building security management
- Inspect and adjust security systems, equipment, or machinery to ensure operational use and to detect evidence of tampering
- Records and investigates security-related incidents and works closely with local public safety agencies for incidents requiring law enforcement involvement.
Conduct staff training for various departments
- Assists with staff training and exercises for facility evacuation, HazMat, and decontamination
Performs additional duties as assigned
* While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.