Healthcare Security Officer

Location: Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Schedule: Full-time / Weekends & Statutory Holidays Required
Pay Rate: $20.50 - $23.50/hour
Employment Type: Other (Permanent/Full-Time Equivalent)

Commissionaires South Saskatchewan is hiring Healthcare Security Officers to work inside hospitals alongside nurses, physicians, and clinical teams. This is not your typical security role. You will be embedded in a healthcare environment where your decisions directly affect patient safety, staff wellbeing, and how a hospital functions under pressure.

Whether you are starting your career, changing direction, or bringing experience from policing, healthcare, or emergency services, this role meets you where you are.

• Provide one-to-one patient watch for high-risk individuals
• Observe and monitor patients, reporting behavioural changes to clinical staff
• Locate and assist missing or wandering patients
• Maintain accurate patient census information
• Support Safe Walk and Safe Drive programs
• Provide officer presence and assistance for special duty assignments

• Respond to Code White and emergency assistance calls
• De-escalate violent, aggressive, or emotionally distressed individuals
• Physically intervene and restrain combative patients when required and authorized
• Provide back-up assistance to police, protective services, and other first responders

• Patrol hospital grounds and buildings to deter theft, vandalism, and unauthorized access
• Monitor security cameras and observe for suspicious activity
• Secure entrances, offices, restricted areas, and lock-up areas
• Ensure safety of hospital and outlying buildings
• Manage key control procedures and lock/unlock schedules
• Enforce parking regulations and control
• Conduct daily and pre-landing inspections of heliport

• Respond to all emergencies across the facility
• Apprehend and detain individuals where authorized
• Remove, document, and catalogue contraband and dangerous weapons
• Escort individuals off hospital property when required
• Report incidents to police, agency, and/or department as required
• Call emergency codes and support the hospital Emergency Preparedness Plan

• Assist with morgue intake and release procedures
• Complete maintenance requisitions
• Issue parking passes, tickets, lockers, and keys
• Monitor fire systems and inspect fire equipment
• Manage lost and found property and maintain documentation

• Complete detailed incident reports and patient activity logs
• Submit daily activity logs as required
• Liaise with police, fire, EMS, and community partners
• Develop and maintain partnerships with clinical teams through continuous collaboration
• Perform photo identification checks
• Work with SHA to review and implement coroner recommendations when applicable
• Familiarize and orient new officers to the work environment and processes

This role involves direct contact with people in crisis. You will encounter individuals experiencing mental health emergencies, substance use, and medical distress. You will witness things that are difficult. You will be expected to act, not observe.

You will also be part of a clinical care team. Nurses and physicians will rely on you. Your documentation, your communication, and your judgement will matter every shift.

If that is what you are looking for, keep reading.

Your career in public safety and healthcare starts here. Where it goes is up to you.

Learn the environment. Patient watch, frontline hospital security, and foundational training in de-escalation, patient interaction, and healthcare operations.

Lead on the floor. Take ownership of high-risk patient watch assignments, manage complex behavioural incidents, and mentor junior officers.

Lead the team. Develop officers through active mentorship,…