Correctional Officer

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Supervises inmates in living areas and recreational activities. Supervises inmates and visitors in visitation areas.

Serves as control center officer, coordinates and monitors inmate movements, conducts counts, and provides emergency response.

Serves as mailroom, field tower, medical security, perimeter security, and/or gate officer as required.

Provides security in treatment activities and supervises labor crews in the kitchen and other specialized areas.

Ensures prompt and appropriate assistance to inmates in the event of injury, illness, and emotional trauma.

Prepares reports and maintains daily logs as required.

Initiates disciplinary reports.

Conduct shakedown for contraband materials, either individually or as part of a specialized team.

Promotes facility cleanliness and reports need for maintenance and/or repairs.

Serves as a member of special teams to respond.

Performs a variety of marginal duties not listed, to be determined and assigned as needed.


Required Knowledge Skills/Abilities:

Must be representative of worthwhile qualities to which an inmate can identify

Must be emotionally stable, understanding, and philosophically attuned to the objective of the facility.

Language skills and reasoning ability are crucial to success in this position.

Interacts daily with offenders and staff members while providing security for the facility.


Education and Experience:

High school diploma or equivalent

Successful completion of training courses and on-the-job training as required by facility training standards.

Experience in correctional setting is highly desirable


Benefits:

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.

Employer supported retirement plan to help you plan for the future.

Access to professional development and continuing education opportunities.


Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to satisfactorily perform these essential functions without causing an undue hardship for the employer.

Long periods of continuous standing and walking per shift.

Frequent periods of sitting per shift.

Repetitive climbing of stairs to reach the assigned areas and working at heights

Occasional kneeling, squatting, and bending to perform “pat” or “strip” searches

Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting

Occasionally responding to altercations and occasional restraining and securing assaultive offenders

Ability to respond rapidly to potential security and/or medical codes/issues

Frequent transferrers and transporting offenders by walking or riding in various vehicles such as vans, buses, and other forms of transportation

Continuous periods of operating/driving company vehicles to pick up and transport offenders per shift.

Remaining awake and alert while on duty per shift.

Occasional lifting and carrying up to 50-100 lbs

Ability to occasionally withstand direct or indirect exposure to OC spray

Ability to hear and understand verbal communication.


Pay: $15.00 per hour


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