Protective Services Officer I - Protective Services

Job Opportunity

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve. Summary : Performs patrolling, surveillance, escorting, investigation, and intervention services in an effort to protect the safety and security of all patients, visitors, employees, and physicians on hospital premises and police hospital buildings and grounds to reduce the probability of fire, theft, and vandalism.

Responsibilities include : patrolling buildings and grounds of the hospital, observing for unsafe or illegal activity, ensuring that only authorized persons are permitted on hospital grounds, providing escort and assistance for visitors, patients, and employees to and from all areas within the hospital property, responding to unusual or emergency situations using the appropriate escalation of force level, responding to emergency calls for assistance to control disorderly conduct or combative patients, appropriately intervening when unruly, abusive, combative, threatening, or armed persons are encountered, serving as a member of the Fire Team and responding to various alarms, investigating incidents of unusual circumstances of a civil and criminal nature, providing assistance to patients, visitors, and employees when vehicles won't start, with flat tires or persons are locked out of their cars, writing incident reports and documenting investigation steps and results, inspecting outgoing parcels as necessary to reduce theft of hospital property, reporting and / or removing all safety and fire hazards observed on routine patrols and inspections, transporting cash, checks, other documents, equipment, supplies, and running errands when requested, participating in and responding to all disaster alerts including Active Shooter, Bomb threats, external emergency, severe weather plans, and internal disaster plans, assisting with traffic control by keeping fire lanes, fire hydrants, and ambulance entrances free of vehicles, and maintaining confidentiality of all matters regarding Johnston Health, its patients, employees, and visitors.

Education Requirements : None required as long as other position qualifications are met.

Licensure / Certification Requirements : Must attain within 90 days of employment and maintain thereafter an active certification in CPI, North Carolina Private Protective Services Unarmed Security Officer, and training in Hands Only CPR.

Professional Experience Requirements : Prior security or police experience preferred.

Knowledge / Skills / and Abilities Requirements :

Legal Employer : NCHEALTH Entity : Johnston Health Organization Unit : Protective Services Work Type : Per Diem Standard Hours Per Week : 4.00 Salary Range : $17.94 - $25.25 per hour (Hiring Range) Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity Work Assignment Type : Onsite Work Schedule : Rotating Location of Job : US : NC : Smithfield Exempt From Overtime : Exempt : No This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d / b / a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.