What are the responsibilities and job description for the SECURITY OFFICER SERGEANT position at illinois?
Job Requisition ID: 51277
Opening Date: 11/26/2025
Closing Date: 12/11/2025
Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: SECURITY OFFICER SERGEANT - 39877
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $5,137 - $7,031 per month ($61,644 - $84,372 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC029
Merit Comp Code:
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
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Why Work for Illinois?
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Position Overview
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a Security Officer Sergeant for the Madden Mental Health Center located in Hines, Illinois to perform a variety of security duties on an assigned shift. Serves as lead worker to lower-level security officers on the assigned shift. Conducts investigations into allegations initiated by patients, staff and/or visitors. Responds to disturbance/assistance codes on patient treatment units. Provides leadership, direction and training in safety and security matters.
Essential Functions
- Conducts investigations into allegations initiated by patients, staff and/or visitors of personal threats, abuse, thefts, burglaries, vandalism, patient injuries, traffic accidents within the guidelines of Office of Inspector General (OIG) and other regulatory bodies on an assigned shift.
- Serves as lead worker to lower-level staff.
- Responds to disturbance/assistance codes on patient treatment units.
- Provides leadership, direction and training in safety and security matters to other departments i.e. fire procedures, searches for contraband, filing police reports related to criminal assaults and violence in the workplace.
- Prepares daily summary reports of all work activities and advises oncoming shift of activities on previous shift.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of high school.
- Requires one (1) year of experience in safety and protection service or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Three (3) years of professional experience working with security requirements and regulations for a public or private organization.
- Three (3) years of professional experience working with emergency response procedures including fire safety and controls for a public or private organization.
- Three (3) years of professional experience participating/conducting investigations into allegations of burglaries, vandalism, patient injuries, and traffic accidents.
- Three (3) years of professional experience providing leadership, directing, and supervising staff for a public or private organization.
- Three (3) years of professional experience preparing reports.
- Three (3) years of experience communicating effectively both orally and in writing.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires the ability to climb stairs, chase runaways and physically restrain and control patients as necessary to prevent injury to patient or others.
- Requires a valid driver’s license.
- Requires the ability to become OIG rule 50.3 certified within 90 days of employment.
- Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, holidays including being mandated to work.
- Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
- Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
- Requires the ability to acquire and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
- Requires the ability to work in a 24 hour “on-call” capacity.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
Work Hours: 10:00pm-6:00am; Tuesday-Saturday; Off Sunday and Monday; 30-minute paid lunch
Security
Work Location: 1200 S 1St Ave, Hines, Illinois, 60141
Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery
Madden Mental Health Center
Security
Agency Contact: DHS.HiringUnit@illinois.gov
Posting Group: Public Safety; Social Services
About the Agency:
The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois. Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives. Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois. Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.
As a State of Illinois Employee, you will receive a robust benefit package that includes the following:
- A Pension Program
- Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
- 12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
- 10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
- Personal, Sick, & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour & part-time work schedules (as applicable)
- 13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
- Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
- 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
- Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP), Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP)
- Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
- GI Bill® Training/Apprenticeship Benefits eligibility for qualifying Veterans
- 5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
- Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)
For more information about our benefits please follow this link: https://cms.illinois.gov/benefits/stateemployee.html
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Use the “Apply” button at the top right or bottom right of this posting to begin the application process.
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State employees should sign in to the career portal for State of Illinois employees – a link is available at the top left of the Illinois.jobs2web.com homepage in the blue ribbon.
Non-State employees should log in on the using the “View Profile” link in the top right of the Illinois.jobs2web.com homepage in the blue ribbon. If you have never before signed in, you will be prompted to create an account.
If you have questions about how to apply, please see the following resources:
State employees: Log in to the career portal for State employees and review the Internal Candidate Application Job Aid
Non-State employees: on Illinois.jobs2web.com – click “Application Procedures” in the footer of every page of the website.
State employees should include temporary assignment in the application profile. Temporary assignment verification forms can be uploaded to the Additional Documents section.
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