Residential Security Specialist

Job Title: Residential Security Specialist
FLSA: Non Exempt/Hourly
Job Type: Full Time/In-person
Department: ORR – Mt.Scott
Reports To: RSS Supervisor
Salary: $19.95/hr. - $21.99/hr. (Bilingual Spanish - $21.75/hr. - $23.97/hr.)
Shift timings: Sunday-Wednesday 1pm-11:30pm
Morrison Child and Family Services: We are a Joint Commission and Sanctuary accredited non-profit
organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, and their families. As an agency, Morrison, its team members, and clients commit to the following values of trauma-informed care:
Nonviolence - being safe and doing the right thing
Emotional Intelligence - managing our feelings so we don’t hurt ourselves or others
Social Learning - respecting and sharing ideas of our teams
Democracy - shared decision making whenever possible
Open Communication - saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it
Social Responsibility - everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture
Growth and Change - creating hope for our clients and ourselves
Job Summary:
Works a fixed post position in the Facility Central Control Area of the program; monitors movement of staff with youth throughout the facility, via security video and radio communication. Responsible for duties associated with the safety and security of residents and staff, and assists Youth Care Workers with some clerical aspects.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitors movement of workers and youth within the facility, efficiently communicates with on duty staff regarding locations and movements of youth, may assign staff to areas of need as necessary. Maintains informed of youth run risk levels and safety plans.
Maintain safety and security of the physical infrastructure by performing routine and random security duties.
Operates communication equipment including closed circuit video, staff radios, and maintains surveillance of all occupied areas.
Issues staff radios and maintains key accountability.
Informs on duty staff via radio communication of any safety and security issues while preventing and detecting security breaches. Intervene and report on any remarkable unauthorized behaviors of the residential population.
Maintains Daily Activity Communication Log, Shift Summary and other required documentation. Monitors transitions, allows all entry and movement of youth.
Provides shift briefing to on-coming shift.
Ascertains, at the start of shift with off-going staff, that (a) communication board is correct; (b) daily documentations are correct
Assists with intakes as required.
Performs other assigned tasks as required.
Is aware of Morrison Compliance Program including Compliance Officer, Compliance Standards of Conduct, and Employee Compliance Hotline. Understands Compliance Standards of Conduct and signs attestation document. Completes all assigned compliance, HIPAA, client privacy, and fraud, waste, and abuse training. Knows how to report any client privacy or fraud, waste, or abuse concerns.
Demonstrate a commitment to developing a thorough knowledge and application of the Sanctuary model and other organizational policies & practices.
Participate in staff development, in-services, and training related to workplace effectiveness; model professional behaviors and implement improvements to business practices with awareness of their impact in a trauma-informed behavioral healthcare organization.
Core Competencies:
Knowledge and/or ability to learn Control Room audio-visual equipment;
Ability to maintain composure and professional boundaries in chaotic situations; ability to effectively diffuse or de-escalate potentially volatile situations with clients and/or visitors.
Ability to keep accurate records;
Ability to follow oral and written directives;
Availability to work on any of the seven days of the w