Correctional Officer

Job
Agency:
Department of Corrections/Women's Prison

Location:

Pierre
Salary: $25.50 to $30.00 per hour, depending on experience
Pay Grade: GG
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

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Maintains custody of women in the Women's Prison by enforcing institutional operations memoranda and procedures to ensure the safety and security of the inmates and employees and that confinement conditions are maintained.

Officers are assigned a specific post in an area such as a control room, cell hall, visit room, or recreational area. Common duties in most posts include observing inmates in cell halls, recreation areas, dining halls, school, health services and shower rooms; supervising inmates by assigning duties and monitoring work; preparing reports of incidents and rule infractions; conducting inmate counts and maintaining log books;

escorting and transporting inmates to and from inside and outside appointments; inspecting and searching cells, common areas, inmates and visitors; monitoring and controlling gates and cell doors; and responding to crisis situations.

Job Functions:

• Monitoring and controlling access to the facility and restricted areas;
• Manning an armed post (this requires annual firearms certification);
• Monitoring facility perimeter;
• Maintain a controlled movement schedule for offenders;
• Escorting and transporting offenders in authorized state vehicles, while armed;
• Monitoring visiting areas;
• Conducting formal, informal and emergency counts;
• Conducting searches per policy;
• Inspecting facility and cells to maintain health, safety and sanitation standards;
• Inspecting inmate mail;
• Utilizing proper protocols when responding to emergency situations;
• Following established tool and key control, ensuring proper storage and documentation;
• Attending shift briefings
• Documenting incidents utilizing established reporting practices;
• Communicating pertinent information to coworkers and supervisors.

Conditions of Employment:

• With or without reasonable accommodation successfully pass all modules of the South Dakota Department of Corrections Basic Training, to include English reading comprehension, relevant competency assessments and written/practical exams in Defensive Tactics and firearms/armed transport curriculum;
• Possess the physical ability to successfully complete Defensive Tactics;
• Lift arms above head and kick as high as own waist;
• Stabilize another person to accomplish a controlled take down;
• Use arms, palms of hands, and feet to deliver blows;
• Withstand impact (slow speed or with a safety bag) on own body from strikes/blows;
• Rotate body 90 degrees with feet planted for striking with foot or using a defensive tactic;
• Get down on one or both knees and up again with multiple repetitions;
• Will be exposed to Oleoresin Capsicum during Basic Training and will be exposed while on assignment;
• Must be able to see and hear in order to observe, address and respond to potential breaches in safety and security;
• Seize, hold, control or subdue violent or assaultive persons and defend oneself or others to prevent injury;
• Demonstrate body agility, strength of all four limbs and the ability to walk and climb stairs consistently;
• Must be able to work 12 hour rotating shifts to include holidays and weekends;
• Work in situations involving assaultive behavior, physical control of another person and/or restraint situations;
• Deal with individuals with a range of moods and behaviors, utilizing tactfulness and a congenial, personable manner;
• Work with people of the opposite sex, diverse racial ethnic groups, mentally ill and emotionally disturbed offenders;
• Communicate by talking, listening and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information, assignments;
• Work in an environment with fluctuating noise and temperature (hot and cold) which may include working outdoors in inclement weather and/or concrete floor/wall work settings;
• Willing and able to travel;
• Willing and able to work various shifts, days, afternoons,…