DOC Shawnee CC Correctional Officer Trainee

DOC Shawnee CC Correctional Officer Trainee

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This range is provided by the State of Illinois. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$4,848.00/yr - $4,848.00/yr

Job

Requisition
Closing Date: 11:59 p.m.
Agency:
Department of Corrections - Shawnee Correctional Center
Class

Title:

CORRECTIONAL OFFICER TRAINEE - 09676
Skill Option:
None
Bilingual Option:
None
Salary:
Anticipated starting salary: $4848; CBA Applies;
Full Range $4651 - $6217
Job Type: Salaried
Category:
Full Time
County:
Johnson

Number of Vacancies : 100
Bargaining Unit Code: RC006 Corrections Employees, AFSCME
Merit Comp Code

The Correctional Officer Trainee position, for a period not to exceed three months, will receive formalized and on-the-job training in security and custodial duties for IDOC. Candidates are encouraged to be physically fit at the level required at screening prior to arrival at the Training Academy. Upon successful completion of Pre-service Security Training, IDOC cadets will participate in a formal ceremony at the academy, be awarded certificates and badges, and sworn to the Oath of Office.

DOC employs Correctional Officer Trainees at each of its 26 correctional centers across the state. Positions will be filled at different times for each of the following facilities:

• Big Muddy River – Jefferson County

• Centralia – Clinton County

• Danville – Vermillion County

• Decatur – Macon County

• Dixon – Lee County

• East Moline – Rock Island County

• Graham – Montgomery County

• Hill – Knox County

• Illinois River – Fulton County

• Jacksonville – Morgan County

• Kewanee – Henry County

• Lawrence – Lawrence County

• Lincoln – Logan County

• Logan – Logan County

• Menard – Randolph County

• Pinckneyville – Perry County

• Pontiac – Livingston County

• Robinson – Crawford County

• Shawnee – Johnson County

• Sheridan – LaSalle County

• Southwestern IL – St Clair County

• Stateville – Will County

• Taylorville – Christian County

• Vandalia – Fayette County

• Vienna – Johnson County

• Western – Brown County

For more information about the training process to become a correctional officer, visit Training Academy – About on the Department's website.

• Receives eight weeks of formalized pre-service security training at the Illinois Corrections Training Academy, including firearms training required by statute.
• Receives on-the-job training under immediate supervision of a qualified correctional employee.
• Assigned each work week to another correctional employee to assist in running lines, yard, dining room, housing units, facility buildings, procedures, observing individuals in custody, perimeter patrol, armory, counting, shakedowns, movement, etc.
• Travels by using a state-issued vehicle to complete assignments.
• Receives one week orientation at the facility.
• Receives formal training in housing unit work, report writing, out-count work, yard work, running lines, individuals in custody at this institution and their assignments, chain-of-command, security buildings, disciplinary procedures, and any other training deemed necessary.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

• Knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of high school.
• Elementary knowledge of resident behavior problems.

• Requires completion of a pre-service security training course during the trainee period.
• Requires successful completion of a firearms training course and proper use of firearms during the trainee period.
• Requires a valid appropriate driver's license and the ability to travel statewide.
• Must be eligible under federal and state law to acquire and possess a firearm and must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a valid Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) card.
• Required to utilize digital technology, tools, platforms, and processes in managing and supporting various digital enhancements for greater efficiency, productivity, and digital transformation efforts within the department.
• Requires ability to pass the IDOC/IDJJ…