P/T HOSPITAL OFFICER

Job Opportunity At The Geo Group

Are you looking for a career you can feel good about? We hire only those that strive to do their best. By joining our family, you'll receive the honor and recognition that comes with working for the industry's global leader in evidenced based rehabilitation.

Why Work For Geo?

We believe that work is more than a place you go to every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things. Employee benefits play an important role in making The Geo Group a great place to work. At Geo, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing: physical, emotional, and financial. With comprehensive benefits and competitive wages, we trust that you will find all the resources you need here to be successful.

Responsibilities

The hospital officer is responsible for providing supervision for detainees in a hospital. The hospital protocol as required by the appropriate procedures and checklists must always be maintained.

Primary duties and responsibilities include:

• Maintaining custody and control of the detainees in the hospital at all times.
• Following restraint protocols outlined in the medical guarding procedures.
• Ensuring restraints utilized do not interfere with medical procedures or harm the detainee.
• Ensuring positioning is always within eyesight of the detainee.
• Ensuring detainees do not receive outside visitors, unless required by contract or court order.
• Ensuring detainees are not allowed to make telephone calls unless required by contract.
• Completing all necessary paperwork and reports in an accurate and thorough manner.
• Ensuring that all reports are turned into the transportation supervisor according to the policies and procedures described.
• Completing duty log detailing all events that take place during the shift.
• Immediately reporting all unusual events to the transportation supervisor.
• Ensuring that detainees are properly secured prior to leaving the hospital.
• Ensuring that all safety measures are followed at all times.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements include:

• High school diploma or equivalent certification required. Possession of applicable state requisites for employment.
• Three (3) years' experience handling prisoners as a law enforcement officer, or as a corrections, detention, or military police officer.
• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age.
• Must possess a state firearms license.
• Must possess a personal sidearm meeting company standards and use an approved level iii retention holster.
• Must possess a state security guard license.
• Must have completed an approved training program resulting in a certification of satisfactory completion in corrections, law enforcement, or military.
• Certification in corrections, law enforcement, or military.
• Ability to work overtime frequently.
• Ability to travel extended periods of time with frequent overnight stays.
• Ability to handle physical and mental stress associated with working extended hours.
• Must be able to regularly report to work without being late.
• Ability to be physically alert on any shift that is assigned.
• Ability to work up to sixteen (16) hours within a rolling 24-hour period.
• Must be mature, flexible, and able to command the respect and confidence of inmates or detainees and staff and possess a high tolerance to mental stress.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.