Looking for DSHS BHA Security Guard 3 in Tukwila, WA - King County, WA
Job title: DSHS BHA Security Guard 3
Company: State of Washington
Job description: Description
DSHS BHA Security Guard 3
Apply to join our team as we pioneer services at the Former Cascade Behavioral Health Hospital in Tukwila!
We are hiring innovative, empathetic, dedicated professionals ready to join our team for a new, cutting-edge career move. Our Patients and Staff need hope, compassion, and patience as we build bridges of trust and collaboration through consulting, teaching, and modeling. While this consultant concept was brought to life over 50 yrs. ago, it has been re-enlivened and applied to the state hospital model of care.
Our services provide comprehensive assessment and detailed recommendations to the respective treatment teams. These will include specific psychopharmacologic, medical, behavioral, and other evidence-based interventions and the relevant staff education and training to facilitate their implementations. Our Staff members provide direct care, specialized services, and evidence-based individual/group therapies to adults with severe psychiatric conditions.
Here is your opportunity to use your empathic engagement skills to be part of a robust and compassionate team that promotes recovery principles and develops therapeutic relationships with our staff and patients. This is an exciting opportunity for a meaningful career where you will have a chance every day to grow, enjoy the work you do, and help us in our mission of transforming lives together.
King County employees receive 5% premium pay in addition to the advertised salary and are eligible to receive a free ORCA card for transportation use.
Some of what you'll do
- Supervise and assist security staff
- Escort clients to and from medical appointments
- Plan, coordinate, direct, and control security activities, responses, and actions
- Communicate with hospital management, supervisors, security, and other hospital staff through memo reports, surveys, and evaluations
- Supervise and participate in making rounds of campus facilities, buildings, and grounds, by foot and by vehicle
- Respond to life and death emergencies and assist law enforcement, fire, and/or other agencies
- Assist in traffic control
- Confiscate, secure, and preserve contraband and evidence
- Plan and provide specific shift work schedules
- Provide counseling to subordinates to resolve disputes, discrepancies, and conflicts
- Conduct monthly check-ins with subordinates and complete monthly reports or other assigned administrative duties as needed
Professionals with a high school diploma or GED and three years of experience in areas of work such as security guard, correctional officer, store investigator, police officer, police reserve officer, military police, or other law enforcement work. (A certificate of completion in a basic law enforcement training program approved by the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission, or a certificate of completion in a police or reserve police academy or military training program will substitute for one of the three years of the above experience)
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Three years of experience as a
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Two years of experience as a
Interested?
Please provide a current resume and three professional references with current contact information along with your online application.
Our Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) mission to Transform Lives requires that we come together with a sense of belonging, common purpose, shared values, and meaningful work. It is crucial to our agency's mission that you bring an equity, anti-racism, and social justice commitment to your work with DSHS. We strive to create greater access and affirming representation of the communities we serve, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, people with physical, behavioral health, and intellectual disabilities, elders, LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants and refugees, and families building financial security.
Questions? Please contact and reference #10460
Supplemental Information
Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history may be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant's suitability and competence to perform in the job. This announcement may be used to fill multiple vacancies. Employees driving on state business must have a valid driver's license. Employees driving a privately owned vehicle on state business must have liability insurance on the privately owned vehicle.
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any area of employment, its programs, or services on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, marital status, race, creed, color, national origin, religion or beliefs, political affiliation, military status, honorably discharged veteran, Vietnam Era, recently separated or other protected veteran status, the presence of any sensory, mental, physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, equal pay or genetic information. Persons requiring accommodation in the application process or this job announcement in an alternative format may contact the Recruiter at (360) 725-5810. Applicants who are deaf or hard of hearing may call through Washington Relay Service by dialing 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6384.
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Expected salary: $4072 - 5479 per month
Location: Tukwila, WA - King County, WA
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