Security Guard - Hart Supportive Housing

Security Guard position at CAMBA supportive housing for seniors 55+ and SMI/substance‑use‑disorder families. Responsible for maintaining security, fire safety, crisis intervention, and tenant monitoring across 57 units.

• Maintain professional relationships with clients and client confidentiality.
• Practice Universal Precautions/Standard Protocol and Procedures.
• Comply with all Federal, State, City, and CAMBA security and privacy policies intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
• Monitor and ensure the security and fire safety of the entire facility.
• Employ crisis prevention/intervention and crisis management skills when conflict occurs.
• Patrol buildings and grounds of facilities where CAMBA programs are located.
• Examine doors, windows, gates, and all fire exits to determine that they are secure and in accordance with all fire regulations.
• Observe and report irregularities such as unusual tenant behavior, trespassers, fire hazards, leaking water pipes, and security doors left unlocked.
• Monitor tenants and the facility via security camera systems.
• Conduct fire safety patrols and report findings or fire safety concerns to appropriate supervisory personnel.
• Conduct security screenings of all tenants and visitors entering the facility.
• Issue commendations to support positive tenant behaviors such as peers helping peers, compliance with rules and regulations, etc.
• Counsel tenants who violate rules (such as loitering, smoking, or carrying forbidden articles) and complete infraction reports.
• Observe departing employees, visitors, and/or tenants to guard against theft of CAMBA property.
• Document in the security logbook and incident report forms property damage, unusual occurrences, and incidents with employees, visitors, and tenants.
• Maintain assigned equipment per shift.
• Sign equipment in and out for each shift.
• May provide all required information for weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reports.
• Other duties as assigned.

• NYS Security Guard license.
• 8‑hour Pre‑Assignment security guard training course certificate.
• 16‑hour On‑the‑Job security guard training course certificate within 90 days of employment.
• 8‑hour Annual In‑Service Course each calendar year.
• Maintain NYS Security Guard registration during employment.
• Fire Guard certification and maintain throughout employment.

• Minimum of one year relevant experience.
• Basic reading, writing, and math skills.
• Ability to apply addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to read and write post‑and‑patrol reports and effectively present information to superiors, tenants, funders, other organizations, and the public.
• Bilingual in any other language (preferred).

• Obtain “Criminal History Checks” (CHC) fingerprinting through the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs (Justice System) and Staff Exclusion List (SEL) clearance.
• Maintain fingerprint clearance throughout employment.
• As a Mandated Reporter, immediately report suspected incidents/cases of abuse and neglect to the Vulnerable Persons Central Register (VPCR) Hotline at and complete a CAMBA Incident Report.
• May have team and/or other coordination responsibility, but no consistent supervisory responsibility.