Probation and Parole Officer

Job Posting Title Probation and Parole Officer Agency 131 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Supervisory Organization DOC P&P Region I Job Posting End Date Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

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Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above. Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank) Full/Part-Time Full time Job Type Regular Compensation Level I - $48,044.52 - This salary is non-negotiable. Level II - $50,834.80 - This salary is non-negotiable. Level III - $54,700.76 - This salary is non-negotiable.

Positions in this job family are responsible for performing routine professional social service and law enforcement duties in the areas of assessment of criminogenic need, transition plan design, treatment referral and on going monitoring of offender behavior. Supervision services are provided in the community for probationers, parolees and inmates in re-entry programs for the purpose of increasing public safety through the reduction of future criminal behavior.

• Manages a caseload of adult felons by employing motivational interviewing skills to complete a scientific assessment of criminogenic risk/need and to determine the offender’s stage of change for each identified need area
• Criminogenic needs of each offender
• Referring offenders to appropriate treatment and/or programs to target the offender’s primary criminogenic needs
• Monitoring activities of offenders to ensure adherence to action steps negotiated through transition planning and to conditions ordered by releasing authority
• Assisting offenders in obtaining and maintaining employment
• Engaging on-going support for the offender in the community by assisting the offender in identifying a network of family and friends with a pro-social orientation
• Identifying pro-social interests and activities that are geared toward improving bonds and ties to pro-social community members
• Conducts various investigations including, but not limited to, pre-sentence, interstate, pre-pardon and pre-parole
• Prepare reports concerning activities of offenders and provide recommendations for the use of the releasing authority
• Maintain documentation, physical and electronic, relating to management of offender caseload
• Monitor payment of financial obligations ordered by the releasing authority; collect and document offender payments
• Assists in security operations in the event of a prison riot or disturbance; and arrests and transports offenders when required
• Conduct periodic screening for drug and alcohol use by offenders

• Level I:
  This is the basic level where the incumbents perform entry-level duties involved in the supervision of probationers, parolees and inmates in re-entry programs.
• Level II:
  This is the career level where incumbents perform a variety of professional probation and parole duties at the full performance level involving the supervision of probationers, parolees and of inmates in pre-entry programs. Some responsibility may also be assigned for providing training and guidance to others in completing various routine assignments.
• Level III:
  This is the specialist level where incumbents serve as a subject matter expert in a specific area of evidence based practice such as motivational interviewing, assessment or transition planning; provide direct cognitive programming to an offender population; responsible for the supervision of offenders who present complex and difficult behavioral management issues.

• Level I Knowledge,
  
  Skills and Abilities
  
  required at this level include knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, legislation, policies and procedures as they pertain to…