Senior Public Safety Officer

Your job is more than a job.

• Provides routine security patrols of campus, both internal and external, to maintain safety, security, crowd control and order.
• Responds to domestic, patient and visitor disturbances, processes lost and found, and deescalates situations involving combative or aggressive personnel.
• May work jointly with local law enforcement to detain persons who commit domestic violence, auto burglary, theft, drug violations and other arrestable offences.
• Performs special or covert operations to prevent car theft and car burglaries.
• Assists victims with restraining orders.
• Attends scenario‑based annual training for Active Shooter, weapons qualification, CPI and other departmental requirements.
• Reports and controls unauthorized or suspicious persons, unsafe conditions or other irregularities.
• 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.
• Assists behavioral health, ED and care center staff with restraining aggressive and combative patients or personnel.
• Utilizes a medical detector to search patients for weapons or contraband.
• Provides transport services for inclement weather shuttle, behavioral health patients, care center patients, rapid response medical team, staff and others.
• Operates security screening equipment, access control systems, video security and intrusion detection systems, and maintains control of patient valuables given to security.

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent and two years of directly related security experience.
• Preferred:
  Police Academy graduate.
• Two years of directly related security experience may be considered in lieu of education.

• Knowledge of local, state and federal laws that may include organized 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.
• Ability to walk and stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to interact with others who may be criminal, violent, disruptive, combative, disoriented or in distress.

• Valid Louisiana Driver’s License.
• Non‑Violent Crisis Prevention – Crisis Prevention Institute (required within orientation period).
• 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 (required if officer has outside law‑enforcement powers).
• Preferred:
  Defensive Driving Certification.
• Preferred:
  Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator – International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety.

Variable hours.

LCMC Health is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.