Public Safety Officer - Armed; PSO

Department:

11926 Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
- Public Safety

Full time

Yes

40

Day shift and PM shift hours

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Week rotation with every other weekend off.

$22.90 - $34.35

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~Week rotation with every other weekend off.

• Provides security services with a customer-service approach, focusing on professionalism, fairness, and compassion evenin challenging circumstances and in accordance with policies, procedures, and training.
• Inspires confidence in patients, visitors, and team members by presenting a professional, approachable, and service-oriented appearance and demeanor.
  
  Isalert, observant, and ethical.
  
  Complies withand enforces all safety and security rules and regulations. Maintains Department uniform and equipment in good repair.
• Performs routine responsibilities during interior and exterior patrols to ensure safety and security, including but not limited to inspections toidentifyvulnerabilities, hazards, and fire conditions, audits of Interim Life Safety Measures, patient valuables management, and thorough contraband searches.
  
  Assist steam members, patients, and visitors by providing information, directions, and physical help. Ensures traffic control, monitors conduct of visitors on premises and confronts unauthorizedpersons for questioning.
• Prevents, responds to, and investigates workplace violence. Responds to service calls, such as combative or threatening patients or visitors and team member incidents.
• Serves as a primary resource for de-escalation,utilizing use of forcewhen necessary (e.g.conducted electrical weapon (CEW),h andcuffing. )
• Performs key responsibilities to plan, prevent, practice, and respond to emergencies such as lost or abducted infants/children, fire, and active threats.
• Respondsimmediatelytoemergencyand crisis situations; physically intervene sin accordance with training to situations that have a potential for injury.
• Investigates incidents that occur on Advocate Health property and completes timely and accurate reports. Addresses and escalates complaints to the appropriate leaderand provides supporting documentation.
• Performs liaison rounding duties to cultivate close partnerships with all departments and units. Delivers security awareness education to team members to leverage their assistance in the overall security of the site.
• Liaisons with federal,state,and local law enforcement and first responder agencies. Coordinates, briefs, and monitorsevery law enforcement prisoner patient guard to ensure policy compliance and prevent unsafe practices.
• Maintains 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. T ASER), to include training on any/all department-issued equipment and/or requirements identified in training academy and the Annual Training Plan.
• Assists with exterior traffic and crowd control, including parking enforcement, valet parking assist, and vehicular assistance.
• Utilizes Interview and Interrogation tactics touncover information about incidents that have occurred.
• Completes