Sergeant; Security Attendant III

Introduction

*** This recruitment is limited to current Maryland Department of Health employees only***

CO0005

MDH, Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Jessup, MD

This position is the lead level of work involving the security and care of patients at Maryland Department of Health (MDH) facilities where care is provided to offenders, patients, or residents with behavioral health diagnoses who have been judged not criminally responsible for committing felonies; and to those who are too violent for a regular hospital or residential setting and who have been deemed dangerous to themselves or others.

This position does not supervise other positions, but are responsible for assigning, reviewing and approving the work of and training lower-level Security Attendants.
This position receives general supervision from a Security Attendant Supervisor. This position is assigned to day, evening, night or rotating shifts. This position is subject to call-in during emergencies and staffing shortages. Employees may be required to move and position patients or apply physical restraints.
Positions in this classification are evaluated by using the classification job evaluation methodology. The use of this method involves comparing the assigned duties and responsibilities of a position to the job criteria found in the Nature of Work and Examples of Work sections of the class specification.
This position is differentiated from Security Attendant II in that this position assigns, reviews and approves the work of and trains lower-level Security Attendants while the Security Attendant II performs the full range of duties and responsibilities under general supervision. This position is differentiated from Security Attendant Supervisor in that Security Attendant Supervisor has supervisory responsibility for lower-level Security Attendants in a specific area.

• Education:
  
  High School diploma or high school equivalency certificate acceptable to the Maryland State Board of Education as described in the Correctional Training Commission regulation.
• Experience:
  
  Two years of experience providing security to patients, inmates or youths committed by courts to psychiatric hospitals, correctional facilities or juvenile detention centers.
• Notes:
• 1. The above educational requirement is set by the Police and Correctional Training Commission in accordance with Correctional Services Article, Section 8-209 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
• 2. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a non-commissioned officer in Correctional Officer/Specialist classifications or Internment/Resettlement Specialist and Correctional specialty codes in the security field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

The desired candidate should possess the following:

• Experience in providing crisis intervention
• Experience in logbook keeping

*** This recruitment is limited to current Maryland Department of Health employees only***

• 1. Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the State of Maryland.
• 2. Some positions in this classification may be required to operate large vans to transport patients. Employees assigned these duties will be required to obtain a Maryland driver's license of the appropriate class for this type of vehicle.

• 1. Employees who have not already done so must meet the selection standards required and successfully complete the training prescribed by the…