Job Summary:
Performs routine supervisory work in the care and custody of inmates. Work involves assisting in performing in-service training of staff. Works under moderate supervision with limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Supervises, instructs, trains, and ensures the safety of assigned employees; and maintains care, custody, and adherence to rules and regulations by inmates assigned to specific work area.
- Supervises and searches for contraband and provides security; counts, feeds, and supervises inmates in housing, work, and other areas accessed by stairs, steps, and ladders; and performs security of various assigned areas involving long periods of sitting and standing, and climbing stairs, steps, and ladders to reach the assigned areas
- Supervises and provides custody and security of inmates including observing actions of inmates, squatting and bending to perform "pat" and “strip" searches of inmates, restraining and securing sometimes assaultive inmates, and transferring and transporting inmates by walking or riding in various vehicles such as trailers, vans, buses, and other forms of transportation.
- Supervises and provides security of inmates performing technical skills such as construction, maintenance, laundry, food service, and in varied industrial and agricultural operations which involve climbing stairs, steps, and ladders and climbing around the inside and outside of buildings; works outdoors and indoors without air conditioning; works around motorized or moving equipment and machinery; and is subject to all types of weather.
- Responds to emergencies including climbing stairs, steps, and ladders while searching for escaped inmates, hearing calls for and calling for help, giving first aid at the emergency site, carrying an injured or unconscious inmate or employee various distances to safety up or down stairs, steps, and ladders; and uses force and deadly force to include the use of chemical agents or firearms to control inmates.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education, Experience, and Training :
- Graduation from an accredited senior high school or equivalent or GED.
- Two years full-time, wage-earning correctional custody or law enforcement experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge of the overall operation of correctional facilities.
- Knowledge of correctional methods, techniques, practices, and procedures.
- Knowledge of agency and departmental organizational structure, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations preferred.
- Skill to interpret and apply rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Skill to communicate ideas and instructions clearly and concisely.
- Skill to plan, organize, and assign the work of others.
- Skill to prepare and maintain accurate records, files, and reports.
- Skill to coordinate with other staff, departments, officials, agencies, organizations, and the public.
- Skill in the supervision of employees and inmates.
SALARY : GR. B18 - ($4492.00 / Monthly)
OTHER BENEFITS:
- Hazardous Duty Pay
- Law Enforcement & Custodial Officers System (LECOS) Retirement