Public Safety Officer Senior (Armed) - New Orleans East Hospital
LCMC Health
- New Orleans, LA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Patrols assigned area on a constant basis to maintain safety, security, crowd control and order.
- Responds to domestic/patient/employee/visitor disturbances, processes lost and found and deescalates 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.
- 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 situation.
- Sets out barricades for blocking spaces for maintenance, construction, VIP and other events.
- Delivers food trays, lab specimen, 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 patient 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.
- 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.
- Must have knowledge of local, state and federal laws that may include organized training from a Law Enforcement Academy Topics.
- Professionalism, ethics, laws and criminal codes, crisis intervention, universal precautions, firearms defensive tactics and handcuffing.
- Training from a police academy.
- Must be skilled with firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
- Ability to supervise and instruct other officers on the proper use of firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
- Must have the ability to walk and stand for long periods of time.
- Interact with others who may be criminal, violent, disruptive, combative, disoriented, etc.
- Required: Valid Louisiana Driver's License
- Required: Non-Violent Crisis Prevention - Crisis Prevention Institute [Required within orientation period.]
- Required: Annual Firearm Training - LCMC Health
- Required: Annual Baton Training - LCMC Health
- Preferred: Defensive Driving Certification - Defensive Driving Certification Issuer
- Preferred: Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator - International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS)
- Deliver healthcare with heart.
- Give people a reason to smile.
- Put a little love in your work.
- Be honest and real, but with compassion.
- Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
- Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
- See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
- Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
- Love what makes you, you - because we do