Healthcare Security Officer

We’re Hiring Healthcare Security Officers

Commissionaires South Saskatchewan

Location: Swift Current, SK, Canada
Schedule: Full-time / Weekends & Statutory Holidays Required
Pay Rate: $20.50 - $23.50/hour
Employment Type: Other (Permanent/Full-Time Equivalent)

This is where careers in public safety and healthcare begin.

Commissionaires South Saskatchewan is hiring Healthcare Security Officers to work inside hospitals alongside nurses, physicians, and clinical teams. This is not your typical security role. You will be embedded in a healthcare environment where your decisions directly affect patient safety, staff wellbeing, and how a hospital functions under pressure.

Whether you are starting your career, changing direction, or bringing experience from policing, healthcare, or emergency services, this role meets you where you are.

What You Will Actually Do

Patient Safety

• Provide one-to-one patient watch for high-risk individuals
• Observe and monitor patients, reporting behavioural changes to clinical staff
• Locate and assist missing or wandering patients
• Maintain accurate patient census information
• Support Safe Walk and Safe Drive programs
• Provide officer presence and assistance for special duty assignments

Emergency Department and Behavioural Response

• Respond to Code White and emergency assistance calls
• De-escalate violent, aggressive, or emotionally distressed individuals
• Physically intervene and restrain combative patients when required and authorized
• Provide back-up assistance to police, protective services, and other first responders

Facility Security

• Patrol hospital grounds and buildings to deter theft, vandalism, and unauthorized access
• Monitor security cameras and observe for suspicious activity
• Secure entrances, offices, restricted areas, and lock-up areas
• Ensure safety of hospital and outlying buildings
• Manage key control procedures and lock/unlock schedules
• Enforce parking regulations and control
• Conduct daily and pre-landing inspections of heliport

Incident Response and Enforcement

• Respond to all emergencies across the facility
• Apprehend and detain individuals where authorized
• Remove, document, and catalogue contraband and dangerous weapons
• Escort individuals off hospital property when required
• Report incidents to police, agency, and/or department as required
• Call emergency codes and support the hospital Emergency Preparedness Plan

Hospital Operations Support

• Assist with morgue intake and release procedures
• Complete maintenance requisitions
• Issue parking passes, tickets, lockers, and keys
• Monitor fire systems and inspect fire equipment
• Manage lost and found property and maintain documentation

Documentation and Collaboration

• Complete detailed incident reports and patient activity logs
• Submit daily activity logs as required
• Liaise with police, fire, EMS, and community partners
• Develop and maintain partnerships with clinical teams through continuous collaboration
• Perform photo identification checks
• Work with SHA to review and implement coroner recommendations when applicable
• Familiarize and orient new officers to the work environment and processes

What you need to know before you apply

This role involves direct contact with people in crisis. You will encounter individuals experiencing mental health emergencies, substance use, and medical distress. You will witness things that are difficult. You will be expected to act, not observe.

You will also be part of a clinical care team. Nurses and physicians will rely on you. Your documentation, your communication, and your judgement will matter every shift.

If that is what you are looking for, keep reading.

A Career Pathway at Commissionaires

Your career in public safety and healthcare starts here. Where it goes is up to you.

Tier 1 — Healthcare Security Officer (Entry)

Learn the environment. Patient watch, frontline hospital security, and foundational training in de-escalation, patient interaction, and healthcare operations.

Tier 2 — Healthcare Security Officer (Lead)

Lead on the floor. Take ownership of high-risk patient watch assignments, manage complex behavioural incidents, and mentor junior officers.

Tier 3 — Healthcare Security Supervisor

Lead the team. Develop officers through active mentorship, coordinate with clinical team leads to manage facility zone coverage and response priorities, and serve as primary liaison between Commissionaires and hospital leadership.

Beyond the Post

The experience, training, and clinical exposure you gain here are recognized across public safety and healthcare.

• Protective Services (Health Authority, Corrections, Campus Security)
• Policing (Municipal, RCMP, First Nations)
• Emergency Services (Paramedicine, Fire Services)
• Healthcare (Nursing, Mental Health, Addictions Support)
• Security Management (Senior Operations, Training Instructors, Contract Management)

Some officers choose to stay and build their career with Commissionaires. Some use this experience to move into other fields. Both paths carry equal value, because the work you do here matters on its own.

Training Provided

Due to the hands-on nature of this role, Commissionaires will provide extensive training in:

• Handcuffing and defensive tactics
• Crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques
• Safe patient restraint and physical intervention
• Patient watch procedures and clinical documentation standards
• Excited delirium, positional asphyxiation, cerebral hypoxia, and prone handcuffing awareness
• Hospital emergency response protocols
• Medication handling and morgue procedures

Work Environment

• Hospital and Emergency Department settings across Saskatchewan
• Direct interaction with individuals experiencing mental health crises, substance use, and medical emergencies
• Exposure to behavioural crisis situations and emotionally charged environments
• Physically demanding role requiring standing, walking, rapid response, and physical intervention throughout shift
• Candidates must be physically capable of responding to emergencies at pace and sustaining activity over a full shift

Why Commissionaires

Commissionaires is Canada's only national not-for-profit security organization. Our social mandate is to provide meaningful employment and support to veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, their families, and all others who wish to contribute to the security and well-being of Canadians.

Our officers are mentored by professionals with backgrounds in policing, military service, emergency response, and public safety. The people who lead here have done the work. They know what it takes, and they are invested in helping you develop.

This is not a staffing agency. This is where you start building something, or where you come to mentor those who have chosen to walk a similar path.

Qualifications

Required:

• Valid Saskatchewan Security Guard Licence (or willingness to obtain prior to start)
• Ability to obtain a clear Criminal Record Check & Vulnerable Sector Scan
• Ability to pass a physical abilities test

Preferred:

• Education in criminal justice, law enforcement, health sciences, or related fields
• Experience in security, healthcare, or customer service environments
• Interest in pursuing a career in healthcare, policing, paramedicine, or emergency services

• Health Care
• Dental
• Vision
• On-the-Job Training
• Growth Opportunities