Detention Deputy - Entry Level

Compensation: $37.73 - $52.75 per hour.

Detention Deputy responsible for maintaining safety, security, and order within the Weld County Jail. Performs duties related to inmate care, facility maintenance, conflict resolution, and emergency response.

• Continuously ensures safety and security of inmates, staff, visitors, and the public and facilitates constitutional rights, including medical, dental, legal representation, and due process.
• Supervises inmate activities directly and indirectly within housing units.
• Observes inmates to detect, deter, and prevent self‑destructive or criminal behaviors, including suicide, escape, assault, theft, contraband, and other offenses.
• Detects medical conditions and refers inmates for treatment, and identifies crisis counseling situations.
• Documents inmate behavior, housing unit activity, and unusual conditions to maintain accurate records.
• Conducts regular inspections and requests repairs or maintenance when needed.
• Collects and distributes mail, complaint forms, supplies, laundry, meals, and other in‑house communications; accepts documents, packages, money, and stores inmate property safely.
• Ensures verbal and written directives, policies, and ordinances are consistently applied.
• Provides basic intervention and conflict‑resolution strategies to control behaviors and maintain order.
• Enforces jail rules through verbal counseling or infraction reports, including written warnings, lockdowns, or disciplinary requests.
• Works effectively in teams and facilitates smooth shift transitions through briefings and communication; supports deputies in housing units.
• Rotates shifts to meet deployment needs.
• Conducts face and head counts, confirms inmate identity from booking photographs, and facilitates meal, commissary, and entry/exit procedures.
• Performs strip, person, cell, and area searches to maintain control.
• Escorts inmates between locations to support required activities.
• Executes emergency response and tactical plans for hostage situations, natural disasters, fire, riot, assistance requests, and power failures.
• Applies physical control techniques and restraint devices as required.
• Authorizes entry and exit of secure perimeter and areas, determines lawful authority, and records photographs and fingerprints for new inmates.

• No experience required.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must hold, or be able to obtain, a valid driver’s license upon hire.
• Shift work required – 24hours a day, 7days a week, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written English and interpret safety rules, procedures, and manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Basic math skills with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Problem‑solving skills in situations with limited standardization.
• Ability to operate telephones, computer terminals, keyboards, photocopiers, scanners, breathing apparatus, gas masks, two‑way radios, and law‑enforcement equipment.
• Adherence to tattoo and piercing policies (see details).

• Full mobility and use of both arms and legs with a full range of motion; ability to reach over heads, below knees, bend, squat, and perform self‑defence techniques.
• Move quickly, climb stairs and ladders, and run when called for assistance.
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