Senior Public Safety Officer

Senior Public Safety Officer – LCMC Health

This job description outlines the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this department. The description is not exhaustive and may change as organizational needs evolve.

• Provide routine security patrols of campus, both internal and external.
• Maintain safety, security, crowd control and order during patrols.
• Respond to domestic/patient/employee/visitor disturbances, process lost and found, and de‑escalate situations involving combative/aggressive personnel.
• Collaborate with local law enforcement to detain persons who commit domestic violence, auto burglary, theft, drug violations, and other arrestable offenses.
• Perform special/covert operations to prevent car theft and car burglaries.
• Assist victims with restraining orders.
• Attend scenario‑based annual training for Active Shooter, weapons qualification, CPI and other mandatory departmental requirements.

• Identify, badge and restrict access for identified offenders who visit the campus.
• Enforce parking, train traffic and semi‑truck redirection.
• Respond to codes and other calls for assistance immediately unless involved in or responding to an emergency situation.
• Set out barricades for blocking spaces for maintenance, construction, VIP and other events.

• Assist behavioral health, ED and care center staff with restraining aggressive and combative patients or personnel.
• Utilize a medical detector to search patients for weapons/contraband.
• Provide transport services for inclement weather shuttle, behavioral health patients, care center patients, rapid response medical team, staff, etc.

• Operate security screening equipment, access control systems, video security and intrusion detection systems, and maintain 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.
• 2 years of directly related Security experience will be considered in lieu of education.

• Knowledge of local, state and federal laws and related training from a Law Enforcement Academy.
• Professionalism, ethics, laws, criminal codes, crisis intervention, universal precautions, firearms defensive tactics and handcuffing.
• Training from a police academy.
• Skill with firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
• Ability to supervise and instruct other officers on proper use of firearms, handcuffs, and restraining.
• Must be able to walk and stand for long periods.
• Interacting with others who may be criminal, violent, disruptive, combative, or disoriented.

• 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.
• Required: Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (CPR, BLS) – American Heart Association (not required at CHNOLA).
• Preferred: P.O.S.T. Certification – Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement (LCLE) [Required if officer has outside law enforcement powers].
• Preferred: Defensive Driving Certification – Defensive Driving Certification Issuer.
• Preferred: Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator – International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS).

Variable Hours (United States of America).

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches carry our mission to bring the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and fostering a welcoming attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary. Lakeview Hospital is the center of LCMC Health’s extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, and it provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany

Parish.

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little…