Correctional Probation Specialist

Correctional Probation Specialist -

The incumbent in this position is responsible for supervising, surveilling and maintaining a specialized caseload consisting of extremely high-risk offenders, sex offenders, or a combination of the above. Many of these offenders have diagnosed severe mental health conditions. The incumbent may also perform duties relating to training.

Examples of work include:

• Encouraging and fostering offender compliance with the supervision order through guidance and goal-setting, monitoring of offender behavior and supervision in the community.
• Conducting field and office supervision visits via personal contact, collateral/community contacts, surveillance contacts, telephone contacts and electronic methods to ensure compliance with conditions of supervision, to promote public safety and to provide assistance to offenders as appropriate.
• Conducting pre-sentence, post-sentence, interstate compact, sentencing guidelines, and other required investigations on offenders.
• Making recommendations on offenders under supervision or pending disposition to the sentencing authority regarding continued supervision, revocation, diversion and incarceration.
• Conducting background investigations on prospective employees.
• Demonstrating sensitivity to public and victim needs, concerns and complaints and taking appropriate, prompt action as required to ensure early identification and intervention for offenders involved in physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment.
• Conducting victim interviews and making treatment referrals for offenders, victims, and their families.
• Conducting searches and making arrests of offenders.
• Responding to collateral inquiries in connection with offenders, their relatives or any affected parties.
• Providing investigative and intelligence assistance to local and state law enforcement agencies in the development of offender profiles, as it relates to pedophilia and child pornography.
• Enforcing compliance with Florida statutes as they pertain to the registration of sex offenders and sexual predators.
• Enforcing Florida statutes as they pertain to the supervision of sex offenders, including, but not limited to scheduling polygraph examinations using qualified examiners, reviewing polygraph results to enhance supervision and to alert to potential areas of concern, monitoring offender driving logs to verify compliance with driving restrictions, enforcing prohibition against obtaining or using a post office box, referring offenders for HIV testing if sexual contact occurred, monitoring offender activities for compliance with curfew restrictions and making recommendations for offenders to wear a monitoring device if deemed necessary.
• Monitoring offender's residence plan for compliance with prohibition against residing within 1000 feet of a school, daycare center, park, playground, or any place where children regularly congregate, if the victim was under 18 years of age.
• Enforcing prohibitions on victim contact and unsupervised, unauthorized contact with children, in compliance with the sentencing authority order.
• Monitoring offender's employment plan to prohibit working for pay or as a volunteer at any school, daycare center, park, playground, or other place where children regularly congregate.
• Enforcing prohibition on the viewing or possession of pornographic or sexually stimulating visual or auditory material, including telephone, computer, and electronic media.
• Enforcing requirement for submission of blood specimens to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for inclusion in the DNA database.
• Assessing and/or assisting in assessing and identifying offender needs, treatment options and supervision objectives and referring offenders as appropriate to qualified therapists who adhere to accepted practices for the treatment of sex offenders.
• Establishing and recording structured treatment programs and other programs designed to enhance offender self-improvement in areas of education, psychological counseling, social services, health education, vocational training, substance abuse and other areas of need and ensuring adherence to these plans.
• Utilizing information management system to develop offender payment plans for all monetary obligations ordered by the sentencing or releasing authority and enforcing offender compliance with the payment plan.
• Maintaining case records, in both electronic and hard copy, documenting the status of offender background, legal history, treatment and progress of the offender under supervision.
• Taking digitized photographs of offenders for placement on web site.
• Exhibiting appropriate demeanor and knowledge as a representative of the Department of Corrections.
• Attending hearings or appearing as a witness in any proceedings before a sentencing or releasing authority making determinations regarding offenders under supervision.
• Reporting non-compliance with order of supervision to sentencing or releasing authority and preparing violation and other required reports,…