Summary
Job Description:
Security Officer - PRN
Provides security and protection to the person and property of those entering Baptist Health Paducah and secondary buildings associated with the operations of Baptist Health buildings, equipment, supplies, and report any misuse of any hospital buildings, equipment, and properties.
Job Duties:
- Answers all calls for service and answers questions concerning these calls or responds accordingly.
- Investigates all incidents involving criminal matters, completes an incident report and reports such matters as appropriate to the proper authority.
- Required to subdue and/or de-escalate high stress, tense situations involving combative person(s) for an unknown period of time.
- Able to assist and complete required fire checks (Fire Extinguishers and Exit Signs on a monthly basis.)
- Conducts routine internal and external foot patrols on the main campus and issue parking violations and assist with traffic control as needed.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma/GED
- Driver’s License
- Must obtain BLS within 3 months of hire. Use of Force certification, including exposure to OC spray, pressure points and control tactics and Taser training within 6 months
Preferred Requirements:
- Two (2) years’ experience in the field of Law Enforcement, Security, Military and/or Corrections
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- Valid driver's license
- Obtain Basic Life Support certification within 3 months of hire
- Obtain Use of Force certification, including OC spray, pressure points, and control tactics, within 6 months
- Complete Taser training within 6 months
- Two years of experience in law enforcement, security, military, or corrections
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
