Public Safety Lead Officer - Full Time Evenings

Public Safety Lead Officer - Full Time Evenings

Under minimal supervision, performs the duties of a Public Safety Lead Officer for the Public Safety Department. Will implement the skills and knowledge learned from current department training, practices, and procedures, including all formal training and experience, to emphasize the use of coaching, mentoring, instructional skills, and intervention. The Public Safety Acting Lead officer will provide leadership, motivation, communication, and techniques, such as professionalism and ethics, the criminal justice system, laws of arrest, search and seizures, arrest methods and defense tactics, investigative report writing, crime scene/evidence/forensics, controlled substances, traffic enforcement, traffic collision and investigation, patrol techniques, and gang awareness.

Candidates in this category will be required to remain up to date on penal code revisions, updates, changes, etc. In addition, the candidate will be expected to take continuing education courses, training, and seminars relating to law enforcement if an offer of employment is made. This is a high-level position that will require this level of training at all times while employed by the department.

The candidate in this position may also be required to provide supervisory leadership in the event the Shift Supervisor is off-site for any reason or is unavailable at any time. This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH). It is expected that the employee will demonstrate behavior consistent with the hospital's core values.

The employee shall support Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital's strategic plan and the goals and direction of the quality and performance improvement process activities therein.

Shift leadership role in the absence of the Shift Supervisor

Participates in facility wide training on behalf of the Public Safety Department and in coordination with the VIWP instructor

Conduct vehicle and foot patrol procedures in order to assure a safer, more secure environment for our employees, physicians, patients and guests

Assist with departmental in-service notifications, implementations and observations

Attendance monitoring and documentation of assigned shift employees

Provide insight on departmental policy review

Provide timely responses to calls for service

Comprehensive radio communications proficiency

Ensuring command center security is alert and uncompromised

Incident investigations of all minor and major facility interactions, including all criminal investigations

Completion of all assigned reports, daily logs and required forms in order to assure timely and complete documentation of security department activity

Participates in departmental new hire training program

Provides high quality professional services to employees, patients, physicians and guests in and around the hospital facility to assure continuous flow of information in and out of the command center to all appropriate security personnel and emergency agencies

Conducts himself/herself in a professional manner, consistent with the authority of the job

Maintain knowledge, skills, and ability to perform all assigned computer functions within the command center in order to assure continuous service to the hospital facility for s, surveillance as well as clerical software

Reporting safety violations to appropriate leadership or department personnel

Assisting hospital personnel with disruptive and non-compliant patient restraints, as requested by medical personnel

Safety and security response to all audible fire alarms within the hospital facility

Access control at assigned posts

Expanded knowledge of the CCTV system and checkpoint system in addition to clerical software and ability to effectively monitor all surveillance cameras

Document investigative information regarding complaints against Public Safety staff, in addition to hospital staff and ensure all incidents are categorized appropriately

Maintain external relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies

Court appearance, when subpoenaed to testify on a criminal complaint, i.e., criminal arrest, or criminal investigation.

Public Safety personnel and the Supervisor on duty will respond to all hospital codes (i.e., Code gray, Code Silver, Code green, etc., as per department policy).

Patient property/valuables inventory intake, completing necessary official property documentation, applying correct patient information, carefully itemizing the patient's property, including valuables and U.S. currency, verifying the information with a witness and the property owner, storing the property according to itemized description, to storing the valuables in a secure vault, communicating and coordinating with dispatch regarding proper property numbers as assigned, to providing a copy of the form to medical personnel to add to the patient chart.

Attend yearly training and receive…