Salary Range: $15.50 - $21.38
Pay rates are determined based on experience and internal equity.
Position Summary:
- Under the general supervision of the Director of Facilities Maintenance, they provide security level protection for staff, patients, and visitors.
- Operates under the direction of the Emergency Department Director and/or Charge Nurse.
- Exercising a calm demeanor, managing escalating events to prevent further escalation.
- Work well under stress or tight deadlines.
- Work well with supervisors, co-workers, patients/residents, family members and visitors.
District Responsibility:
- Support Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC) Mission and Values.
- Demonstrate respect and professional courtesy to all patients, visitors, providers and staff members, per LVMC "Commitment to Care".
- Constantly use C-I-CARE principles when communicating with others.
- Participate in Performance Improvement Activities
- Participate in Professional Development, training, and certifications specific to the trade.
Position Duties/Responsibility:
- Primarily work center location: Lompoc Valley Medical Center Emergency Department.
- Exhibits a professional image and demeanor. Exercise interpersonal skills and customer service to provide a positive environment for patients and visitors.
- Work in collaboration with Emergency Department leadership to protect patients, visitors, and staff members.
- Perform rounds to provide a "presence" throughout assigned areas.
- Promptly attend to escalating incidents, identify issues and respond appropriately to eliminate safety hazards.
- Unless otherwise directed, assists in re-direction and de-escalation of elevating/elevated patient or visitor situations.
- Performs to prevent aggressive behavior, seclusion, and restraint by utilizing the least restrictive methods, per Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Advanced Education training.
- Intervene in patient, visitor and/or staff confrontations as appropriate using the least restrictive methods, per Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Advanced Education training.
- Under the direction of the Charge Nurse, assist restraining as required.
- Assists leadership by performing safety search and inventory of patients' personal belongings when directed.
- Deter vandalism, theft, and abuse through routine patrols.
- Adhere to LVMC policies, California State and federal laws.
- Perform, collaborate, cooperate with contracted security service/officers.
- Remain in the assigned work area and complete all specified duties.
- Beginning and end of shift, receive and provide a shift pass down report to the oncoming/relieving Officer(s).
- Prior to shift departure, provide professionally prepared shift report(s) detailing shift events and security situations to include who, what, where, when, and how detail, to designated leader(s).
- Maintain a positive relationship with law enforcement.
Essential Functions
- Knowledge of Life Safety Code, California laws, including laws specific to healthcare, violence in the workplace, security limitations, and mental health.
- Knowledge of alarms, codes, and expected reactions.
- The ability to supervise and lead.
- The ability to work as a team player.
- Maintain patient and LVMC privacy, adhere to California State and Federal HIPAA rules and regulations, and LVMC privacy policies and procedures.
Position Qualifications:
- Education: High School graduate, security, and de-escalation training preferred.
- Experience: Security and de-escalation.
- Certifications Complete the following courses within 120 days of employment:
- Verbal De-escalation
- Verbal Defusing Techniques for Healthcare Workers
- How to Stay Safe by Assessing Behavior
- How to Communicate with a Resistant Person
- Self Defense Course
- Other courses as assigned (CPI & NAPPI courses)
- Skills/Ability: Report writing, strong verbal communication skills, calm demeanor, think/plan steps ahead, diffuse/resolve elevated situations. Spanish speaking is a plus.
- LVMC reserves the right to modify the minimum requirements depending on the needs of the organization.
Working Conditions
- Involves frequent contact and interactions with patients, visitors, physicians and/or staff.
- Involves a class IV risk factor for exposure to blood and body fluids.
- Occasionally, it requires physical demands.
- Frequently requires light lifting.
- Frequently requires prolonged standing, sitting and walking.
- Frequently requires light bending, stretching, pushing, pulling, and reaching.
- For any position requiring a medium to heavy rating, the employee must be able to demonstrate good body mechanics.