Security Officer

Security Officer

The Security Officer provides a safe environment for patients, visitors, employees, and volunteers. This position is responsible to enforce policy, provide assistance and direction, respond to emergencies, and to provide protection for employees, visitors, and Intermountain property. Essential functions include :

• De-escalation : Security officers use verbal and non-verbal strategies to calm individuals and resolve conflicts peacefully, minimizing the need for physical force.
• Dealing with violent patients : They intervene to protect the safety of everyone involved when patients act aggressively or violently, including using physical restraints when necessary.
• Training on Workplace Violence Prevention (WPVP) : Security officers teach WPVP techniques, focusing on education, prevention, and mitigation of workplace violence. This includes handling verbal harassment, physical assault, and bomb threats.
• Regulatory Compliance : Ensuring compliance with regulations such as HIPAA when reporting crimes or incidents, disclosing only the minimum necessary information to law enforcement.
• Bomb Threat / Suspicious Package Responses : Trained to respond to bomb threats and suspicious packages, following protocols to ensure the safety of the facility.
• Participation in Drills : Engaging in exercises like infant abduction and active shooter scenarios to prepare staff for real-life situations.
• Conducting Searches : Performing respectful and safe searches of patients and searching for narcotics, ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
• Safety Inspections : Conducting inspections of walking surfaces, fire extinguishers, and overall facility safety to mitigate risks.
• Parking Enforcement : Enforcing parking regulations to ensure safety and accessibility, focusing on enhancing the patient experience.
• Investigations : Collaborating with HR and law enforcement to conduct investigations, following protocols for disclosing patient information, and ensuring facility safety.

Skills include law enforcement, parking, public safety, lockout tagout, fire drills, key control, exterior design, patient transportation, communication, and situational awareness.

Minimum qualifications include a current driver's license (if applicable for the role), current basic life certification (BLS) for healthcare providers or willingness to obtain within 90 days of hire, and being at least 21 years of age. Preferred qualifications include one-year previous law enforcement, corrections, public safety, military police, or security experience.

Physical requirements include the ongoing need for the employee to see and read information, labels, and monitors; frequent interactions with customers requiring communication as well as understanding spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately; manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy; expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment; and for roles requiring driving, expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location : Saint Joseph Hospital

Work City : Denver

Work State : Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours : 40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $19.95 - $26.38

We care about your well-being mind, body, and spirit which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.