Public Safety Lead Officer - Full Time Evenings

Pay

Hourly; $24.99 – $34.19 per hour depending on experience.

About the role

Under minimal supervision, performs the duties of a Public Safety Lead Officer for the Public Safety Department. Implements skills and knowledge from current department training, practices, and procedures, including all formal training and experience, to emphasize coaching, mentoring, instructional skills, and intervention. Provides leadership, motivation, communication, and techniques such as professionalism and ethics, the criminal justice system, laws of arrest, search and seizures, arrest methods and defense tactics, investigative report writing, crime scene/evidence/forensics, controlled substances, traffic enforcement, traffic collision and investigation, patrol techniques, and gang awareness. Must remain current on penal code revisions and complete continuing education courses, training, and seminars relating to law enforcement. May provide supervisory leadership when the Shift Supervisor is off‑site or unavailable. Requires full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) and demonstration of behavior consistent with the hospital’s core values, strategic plan, and quality/performance improvement goals.

Responsibilities

• Shift leadership role in the absence of the Shift Supervisor
• Participate in facility‑wide training on behalf of the Public Safety Department in coordination with the VIWP instructor
• Conduct vehicle and foot patrol procedures to assure a safer, more secure environment for employees, physicians, patients, and guests
• Assist with departmental in‑service notifications, implementations, and observations
• Attendance monitoring and documentation of assigned shift employees
• Provide insight on departmental policy review
• Provide timely responses to calls for service
• Maintain comprehensive radio communications proficiency
• Ensure command center security is alert and uncompromised
• Conduct incident investigations of all minor and major facility interactions, including criminal investigations
• Complete all assigned reports, daily logs, and required forms to assure timely and complete documentation of security department activity
• Participate in departmental new‑hire training program
• Provide high‑quality professional services to employees, patients, physicians, and guests to assure continuous flow of information in and out of the command center to all appropriate security personnel and emergency agencies
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner consistent with the authority of the job
• Maintain knowledge, skills, and ability to perform all assigned computer functions within the command center (ID badges, surveillance, clerical software)
• Report safety violations to appropriate leadership or department personnel
• Assist hospital personnel with disruptive and non‑compliant patient restraints as requested by medical personnel
• Safety and security response to all audible fire alarms within the hospital facility
• Access control at assigned posts
• Expanded knowledge of the CCTV system and checkpoint system in addition to clerical software; effectively monitor all surveillance cameras
• Document investigative information regarding complaints against Public Safety staff, hospital staff, and ensure all incidents are categorized appropriately
• Maintain external relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies
• Court appearance when subpoenaed to testify on a criminal complaint (criminal arrest or investigation)
• Respond to all hospital codes (Code Gray, Code Silver, Code Green, etc.) per department policy
• Patient property/valuables inventory intake: complete official property documentation, apply correct patient information, itemize property including valuables and U.S. currency, verify with witness and property owner, store property per itemized description, secure valuables in vault, coordinate with dispatch on property numbers, provide copy to medical personnel for patient chart
• Attend yearly training and receive competency in: Active Shooter/Code Silver, Disaster, Public Disturbance, Infant and child abduction, Victim of violence arrivals, Use of Force, weaponless defense techniques, control methods, handcuffing, de‑escalating violence, safe patient handling, patient restraints, workplace violence, and hospital standard codes
• Searching personnel: security screening and safeguarding; conduct cursory pat‑down when dangerous weapons or unauthorized items are suspected; training in contraband handling and documentation; understand laws pertaining to lawful search
• Public Safety Lead Officer or Supervisor conducts weapon intake (name, municipal department, agency, copy of departmental/agency ID and license to carry); non‑law‑enforcement persons surrender weapons to MLKCH Public Safety
• Initiate and complete risk incident reports when unauthorized weapon is confiscated and secured
• Illegally possessed weapons (per CA Penal Code §16590) shall not be returned
• Tools altered to perform as weapons (broken scissors, sharpened tools, altered utensils, modified box cutters) shall not be returned
• Weapons confiscated from behavioral health patients (including “blue gown” and “green gown” patients) shall not be returned
• Edged or blunt weapons confiscated at ingress/egress points shall be disposed of in sharps containers in Emergency Department patient care areas
• Immediately search forensic patients per policy SEC‑2034
• Detainments and understanding searching limitations; use Garrett metal detector wand on persons seeking hospital access; maintain communications with cover officer during search
• Respond to patient elopements; investigate and document all elopements; coordinate with medical personnel to locate and document missing patient using hospital’s risk reporting system
• Crash Cart Transportation: take used carts from patient care areas to Materials Management for restocking; bring restocked carts from Materials Management to Pharmacy to stock medication trays and return to patient care areas
• Receive Workplace Violence Prevention training (AVADE satisfies staff education requirement); complete yearly training and certification
• Provide safety companion roles only for brief periods; provide verbal handoff report to safety companion for documentation
• Complete Hospital Lockdown: secure all perimeter doors, deploy personnel to public entrances/exits, screen each person attempting to leave, prevent outside persons from entering except emergency response; lockdown authorized only by IC/AOC or designated representative; central access point established by Director/Manager of Public Safety or designee during business hours, or by Public Safety Supervisor/highest‑ranking officer during off hours
• Dispatch as needed to assist with covering breaks, lunches, or call assignments
• Update all employees’ vehicle information upon hire and assign parking permits
• Outside Clinics: assign Public Safety personnel to outside clinics for safety measures and other duties as tasked by Public Safety Supervisor
• Fire Watches: conduct fire watches as needed per department policy
• Other duties as assigned by a Public Safety Supervisor or above

Requirements

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent certification required
• Completion of a Law Enforcement POST‑Training Regular Basic Course Academy with valid proof of certification, or completion of the Basic Course Modular Format (Module III – 144 hours, Module II – 189 hours, Module I – 394 hours) with valid proof of certification required
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in Administration of Justice/Criminal Justice preferred
• Extensive work history in public safety/security/law enforcement and/or military may be considered in lieu of education and POST certification; determination made by Public Safety leadership team
• Training in cultural diversity or sensitivity a plus

Qualifications & Experience

• Valid CA Guard Card required
• Completed POST PC 832 40‑hour course program
• IAHSS Basic certification required; Advanced certification considered
• Current AVADE certification (instructor