Mount Sinai

Security Officer - Security Department

Job Description

Posted on: 
April 4, 2025

Mount Sinai West-Full Time/Days (7:30am-3:30pm)/Weekends

Security Officer-Mount Sinai West

Patrols and secures hospital property, employees, patients and visitors. Consults with and keeps supervisor informed of activities, needs and problems in assigned areas

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Patrols hospital buildings and premises to prevent fire, theft, vandalism, and intruders
  • Monitor conduct of visitors on hospital premises; conform unauthorized persons for questioning as need
  • Reports safety and/or fire hazards or security violations
  • Responds to inquiries for advice or assistance from hospital personnel, and visitors
  • Participates in investigations; maintains records and prepares incident reports and other documents pertinent to security activities
  • Secures and/or unlocks offices and facilities as required
  • Secures patient valuables or lost and found articles; maintain logs of items received
  • Maintains established hospital and department policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental and infection control
  • Maintains department supplies and equipment in working order. Requisitions supplies and equipment as needed or informs supervisor of needed equipment
  • Uses hospital vehicles in the event of an emergency to secure emergency supplies of life saving equipment outside the institution
  • Provides restraints of psychiatric patients as needed. Escorts personnel to parking lots and hospital buildings

Job Requirements

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalency. Bachelor?s Degree preferred
  • A minimum of one year experience as a security officer in an institutional setting or in a law enforcement setting. Relevant military experience may be considered in lieu of this requirement.
  • New York State Security Guard certification.  

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