Jail/Corrections Officer

RESPONSIBILITIES AS A CORRECTIONS PROFESSIONAL INCLUDE: • Maintains custody, security, supervision, discipline and welfare of inmates. • Maintains supervision, order, and discipline during meals, recreation, showering, and at all other times. • Checks inmates in and out of jail for work release and court appearances. • Explains and enforces all the rules and regulations of the facility. • May be assigned to book and search prisoners, issue clothing, assign quarters, and photograph and fingerprint prisoners. • Manages the operation of a living unit or a specific post in the facility. • Holds inmates accountable for setting and meeting unit goals. • Can creatively determine formal and informal rewards to elicit desired behavior, to ensure inmate dorms and dayrooms are kept in a sanitary condition, and to see that personal hygiene of inmates is maintained. • Engages in a variety of supervisory techniques to achieve compliant behavior from inmates. • Stresses psychological controls and verbal skills as primary management skills. • Identifies, addresses, and solves problems of inmates. • Supervises work details of inmates in areas within or outside of the facility. • Assists in the conveyance of inmates throughout the facility, supervises visitation and correctional programming areas. • Prepares reports and keeps accurate, detailed records. • Performs other duties as required or assigned.