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Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Security Officer, you will monitor buildings and grounds on the property to ensure the safety and security of employees, patients, and other visitors.

Every day you will monitor the property by walking and driving around the premises. Your security detail could include guarding facility and unit access points, monitoring surveillance cameras, testing new security technology, and protecting all employees/visitors against acts of violence should they arise.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need the ability to remain calm and take action based on the situation, known facts, and understand the position limitations. You are also expected to respond to emergency codes in a timely manner. Previous experience in security/patrol in a healthcare setting is preferred.

+ Protecting staff, patients, and visitors by responding to calls for assistance in a timely and prudent manner. Calls may include incidents such as violent or unruly patients, visitors, crimes committed or in progress, or to emergency codes, and requests for opening doors. Patrol the facility and grounds by foot or vehicle; monitor security alarms and dispatch officers promptly to location(s) where needed; and report unsafe acts or conditions.

+ Knowledge of emergency procedures, equipment, and supplies, including of radios and hospital codes

+ Reports HIPAA breaches if witnessed; investigate security breaches, conducts investigations, and writes incident reports. Ensures that all activities are logged. That incident reports are accurately completed that they are clear, concise, legible and submitted in a timely manner.

+ Use appropriate emergency and radio codes in dispatching security officers while knowing hospital campus to ensure that dispatches are to write location.

+ Keeping the organization’s mission, vision and values at the forefront of all decision making and action.

+ Demonstrates breadth and/or depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position. Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization.

Job Requirements

Required

+ High School Graduate High school diploma or equivalent

+ Six (6) months experience as security officer in a healthcare setting in Law enforcement or military service OR One (1) year experience as a security officer.

+ Security Guard: CA

+ Driver's License: CA, within 30 Days

+ DMV Moving Violations, within 30 Days

+ American Heart Association Basic Life Support within 90 Days

Where You'll Work

Dignity Health Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital is a 104-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Grass Valley, California. The hospital has been providing compassionate and quality health care to residents and visitors of western Nevada County since 1958. As an affiliate of the nationally recognized Dignity Health system, we ensure our patients receive the highest standard of health care and have access to important regional resources throughout the system, including the Dignity Health Heart & Vascular Institute, the Dignity Health Neurological Institute of Northern California and the Dignity Health Cancer Institute of Greater Sacramento. With 765 employees, 101 active medical staff and 21 Emergency Department beds, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital continually implements and upgrades its technology and recruits employees who understand the vital importance of kindness and compassion in the healing process.

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Pay Range

$24.00 - $28.10 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.