Security Officer

Role & responsibilities

A Hospital Security Officer protects patients, visitors, healthcare staff, and hospital property while ensuring a calm and safe environment for medical care.

Preferred candidate profile

1. Access Control: Monitor building entrances, check visitor passes, verify staff badges, and restrict unauthorized entry to sensitive areas like ICUs, pharmacies, and the morgue.

2. Patrols & Surveillance: Regularly walk the hospital grounds, parking lots, and corridors, and monitor live CCTV feeds and alarms.

3. Use verbal communication and conflict-resolution techniques to calm agitated, aggressive, or intoxicated patients and visitors before situations turn violent.

4. Emergency Response: Act swiftly during fires, active threats, medical crises, or evacuations, and assist clinical staff with restraining or securing violent patients when legally and medically authorized.

5. Asset & Property Protection: Safeguard medical equipment, drugs, and facility assets against theft or vandalism, and oversee cash-transit security if required.

6. Reporting & Liaison: Write detailed incident and investigation reports, and coordinate directly with local police, fire departments, and emergency services.