Correctional Officer

• Oversees the security and conduct of inmates
• Supervises trustees in performance of routine custodial work
• Processes prisoners for commitment, release, or transfer from detention facilities
• Prepares required records
• Issues clothing to inmates
• Maintains records of inmates and their personal property
• Recommends work assignments for inmates
• Visually and physically inspects inmates and their quarters, for contraband, weapons, or narcotics
• Checks on sanitary conditions and orderliness of quarters
• Promotes acceptable inmate attitude and behavior
• Confers with supervisors and custody-related service providers regarding behavioral and other inmate problems
• Participates in programs designed to prepare inmates for release
• Checks buildings and nearby grounds for irregular circumstances related to possible or attempted escape of prisoners
• Answers telephone inquiries and at the counter inquiries pertaining to jail policies and individual prisoners
• Receives and gives receipts for bail money
• Dispenses prescribed medications to prisoners
• Provides transportation for inmates
• Assists with public safety dispatching
• Prepares written reports
• Other related duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

A high school graduate or equivalent with one year of public contact experience.

Knowledge of:

• Security and emergency procedures
• Rules, regulations, practices, and procedures in the day-today operation and control of the County jail
• Modern methods and techniques of discipline as they relate to persons under criminal confinement
• Inmate supervision techniques, including supervision of special inmates
• Criminal attitudes and behavioral patterns, and social factors underlying criminal behavior
• Inmate attitudes and behavior
• Minority group relations
• Inmate disciplinary grievance procedures
• Fire safety
• Defensive tactics
• Movement of prisoners
• Legal responsibilities and liabilities
• Report writing
• Collection, identification, and preservation of evidence
• Judicial procedures
• Courtroom demeanor and testifying
• Inmate correctional programs
• Laws pertaining to local detention and holding areas
• Care and operation of small firearms and other law enforcement equipment
• First aid and CPR

Ability to:

• Observe, remember, and record events accurately
• Learn, interpret and enforce jail rules, regulations, and other policies with firmness, tact, and impartiality
• Effectively control, direct, and instruct inmates, individually and in groups
• Speak, read, and write English
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions
• Make quick effective and responsible decisions in emergencies and to take appropriate action including physically restraining violent inmates
• Promote acceptable attitudes and behavior of inmates while in confinement
• Prepare and present clear and comprehensive written and oral reports
• Met and maintain standards of physical endurance and agility
• Use and care for firearms and other law enforcement equipment
• Learn and properly use standard broadcasting procedures of a police radio system
• Work cooperatively with those contacted in the course of work

• Height and weight must be proportionate
• Hearing normal; vision 20/100 corrected to 20/30
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk; run and jump
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls
• Reach with hands and arms
• Climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell
• The employee must occasionally lift and or move more than 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Must have ability to physically restrain violent inmates, walk the housing area, climb stairs, and operate electrical, electronic, and manual mechanisms

• Must pass written examination and physical agility examination, a psychological examination, a stringent physical examination, including drug screen, and personal background check
• Must successfully complete a jail operations course certified by the California State Board of Corrections and approved Penal Code 832, first aid and CPR courses
• You may be required to drive a motor vehicle in the course of employment and must possess a valid operator’s license issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles
• Must successfully complete a pre-employment background investigation
• Your position may be required to serve as a Disaster Service Worker during a County emergency

This recruitment will remain open on a continuous basis, Interested persons should apply immediately.

APPLICATION:It is important that your application show all the relevant education and experience you possess.

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