Security Officer

# Security Officer Newburyport, MA
• Anna Jaques Hospital
• Full-time
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** When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
** Performs a wide range of duties to insure the safety and security of the Hospital and its patients, visitors, physicians, employees, and others, as well as the property of same, ensuring that all responsibilities are performed in strict accordance with Hospital and/or Departmental Policies at all times.
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* Job Description:

**** ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
**** Provides Hospital wide security as outlined by and in adherence to Hospital/Departmental Policies and Procedures
*** Maintains surveillance over Hospital property and the property of employees, patients, visitors, and note on Daily Reports.
* Is alert to intrusions into/onto Hospital property, observes, challenges, and reports in Daily Reports and/or Incident Reports the presence of intruders or persons acting suspicious 100% of the time.
* Responds to, reports, and documents any breach of Hospital security policies.
* Responds immediately to all emergency requests for security assistance, providing assistance to ensure the safety of all Hospital employees, visitors, and others 100% of the time, in accordance with Hospital policies.
* Follows Hospital and/or Departmental policies and procedures related to the operation of the security department with no more than 1 documented error or problem per quarter.
** Assists in maintaining the safety of the hospital and its employees, patients, visitors, and others
*** Performs Morse Watchman Check station Rounds in accordance with and as outlined by Departmental Policy.
* Watches for and reports to Security Manager, orally and in writing, circumstances or hazards which could contribute to injury, accident, or fire, noting same on Daily Reports and Incident Reports.
* Provides, as necessary, and in a timely manner, Escort Service to parking areas or remote areas of the Hospital, in order to ensure the safety of employees, visitors, or others, reporting all such Escort Services provided on Daily Reports.
** Ensures the safety and security of all Hospital grounds
*** Directs vehicular traffic as needed on Hospital property in order to maintain a safe environment in accordance with Hospital and Departmental Policies at all times.
* Patrols all Hospital parking areas and grounds to ensure the safety and security of said areas at all times, in accordance with Departmental Policies and observed on Daily Reports.
* Provides all Security Department duties as outlined by departmental policies and procedures
* Monitors and witnesses the removal of patient valuables from the admitting safe when requested as outlined in the Hospital Policies and Procedures Manual with documentation on Daily Reports as well as in the valuables log.
* Provides assistance in inclement weather as outlined in departmental policy and procedures, noting all such services performed in Daily Reports. (i.e. Assistance could be given to jump start a dead battery for a patient, visitor or staff member’s vehicle, assisting the snow removal company in controlling traffic flow to designated areas of the lot during snow emergencies, etc.)
* Responds to all “Team Controls” and performs all duties as requested 100% of the time
* Provides security duties in “Code Red” situations as outlined by Hospital Policy or as directed.
* Performs all security-related duties associated with the Hospital Internal Emergency Management Manual at all times.
* Ensures that pertinent information is passed to the relief Officer at change of shift.
* Maintains a smoke-free zone at areas designated no smoking by the facility and gives direction to an acceptable area for smoking.
* Maintains post one (security office) when assigned, views CCTV observation equipment, assumes all switchboard duties.
* Performs one on one (Constant Patient Observations) when requested to do so by clinical staff.
** Ensures department standards regarding quality of service are maintained
*** Attends department in-service programs and/or department staff meetings on a regular basis, in order to…