NWIN Public Safety & Security Officer

Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Crown Point, located in Crown Point, Indiana. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity.

UChicago Medicine is an integrated academic and community health system with multiple primary medical facilities within the surrounding suburbs of Chicago. UChicago Medicine, Crown Point is a new two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana for what will be the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana.

In this role as a Public Safety Officer, you will provide unarmed uniformed safety, security and customer centered services to all patients, visitors, and staff of the Medical Center.

Essential Job Functions

• Greet incoming patients and visitors to the medical center and verify reason for visit.
• Validate proper identification of incoming patients, visitors, and staff.
• Provide accurate directions to patients and visitors to ensure they reach their destination within the medical center.
• Enter visitor information into the visitor management system and issue visitor badges to individuals that have been properly validated.
• Prohibit access to individuals that have been restricted due to security related events or patient requests.
• Collect and scan out visitor badges when visitors are exiting the medical center to maintain an accurate visitation log/count.
• Conduct foot patrols in assigned areas, double tap required tour access points and report identified safety and security related risk/issues.
• Verify areas are properly locked and secured when performing patrols.
• Provide immediate response to unplanned life safety or security related emergencies and drills/exercises.
• Respond to service calls in a timely manner.
• Provide security escort services when requested.
• Assist PSO’s by providing information needed to complete accurate and detailed reports for security related incidents.
• Assist with investigations of all criminals and/or suspicious occurrences in the medical center.
• Attend court or other legal proceedings to provide details of specific incidents as required.
• Perform other duties assigned.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 1-2 years of job-related experience in public safety and/or security role(s).
• Certificate Completion of the following Training/Certifications provided by UCM within the first 180 days of employment:
  • Illinois 20-Hour Unarmed Security Officer Certificate
  • Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Verbal Intervention Training/Certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in criminal justice or related field preferred
• Valid Driver’s License preferred.

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time
• Shift: Nights
• Unit/Department: Facilities/Safety & Security - Crown Point
• CBA Code: Non-Union