Floor Sergeant

Job : 34495

Agency: Department of Corrections

Location: Pierre

Salary: $26.00 to $30.00 Hourly, depending on experience

Pay Grade: H

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

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Maintains daily contact with offenders, to assist them with their day-to-day living in a correctional facility and to organize their activities while providing motivation and guidance; facilitates scheduling and program options in order that they may receive opportunities to learn how to change their criminal behavior.

• Department of Correction’s Inmate Living Guide, classification system and post operational rules (POR).
• Department of Correction’s policies and the institution’s operations and procedures.
• Modern concepts, principles, and practices related to the re-entry of an offender back into society.
• Attitude, problems, and behavior of incarcerated individuals.
• Programs available for rehabilitation of offenders.
• Knowledge of offender visiting policy.
• Microsoft Office products, specifically Word and Excel.
• The Use of Force Continuum.
• The Disciplinary (DHO) policy and its implementation.
• De-escalation techniques.
• Multi-generational workforce.

• Communicate and document logically, accurately, and concisely all pertinent information and decisions.
• Make proper responses to safety and security problems.
• Relate to and establish rapport with offenders and assist them in their initial adaptation to prison life.
• Plan, organize, schedule, and direct the work of others.
• Apply department policies and institution operations and procedures for the assigned housing unit.
• Maintain composure under stressful conditions or tense situations and de-escalate situations.
• Participate in the criminal justice system regarding the treatment of inmates and/or incarcerated individuals (state statute, ADA, PREA, and department policies and guidelines).
• Enforce and uphold department policy, procedure and practice.
• Study information and recount events in a written, comprehensive and legible method.
• Incorporate the SDDOC Mission Statement while completing daily duties.
• Willingness to respectfully work with a diverse population.
• Conduct searches (general area, metal detector, pat-down, perimeter, unclothed or vehicle).
• Operate communications equipment professionally (e.g., two-way radio, telephone, PA).
• Willingness to follow chain of command.
• Work as a team with a diverse group of people.

• Provide work direction to Correctional Officers on the unit and perform security operations to ensure staff and offender safety and unit security.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to security staff assigned to their supervision chain.
• Make work assignments based on facility operations and institutional needs.
• Coordinate with the OIC to ensure appropriate floor coverage.
• Communicate professionally with both staff and offender population.
• Conduct formal and informal counts and emergency counts.
• Conduct searches per policy.
• Maintain controlled movement of offender population.
• Monitor and control access to the facility and restricted areas.
• Utilize proper protocols when responding to emergency situations.
• Follow established tool and key control procedures.
• Assist the Officer In Charge (OIC) in daily management tasks.
• Performs other work as assigned.

Two (2) years of experience working directly with a hard-to-serve high-needs client population in a correctional or human services environment.

• Hard-to-serve needs clients include individuals with multiple barriers to employment, lack of educational or occupational skills attainment, low-income workers, low literacy or English proficiency, disability status, homelessness, ex-offenders and justice-involved individuals, and public assistance dependency.
• OR – Two (2) years of corrections experience with knowledge of offender classification, offender disciplinary system, grievance process, housing assignments and offender programs, while modeling pro-social behaviors and…