Floor Sergeant

Pierre, SD | Corrections | Full-Time 40 Hours Weekly

26.00 - 30.00 US per hour

This is a full-time position with the Department of Corrections. For more information on the Department of Corrections, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). .

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.

Knowledge of:

• 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;
• multi-generational workforce.

Ability to:

• 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 to 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 the situation(s);
• participate in the criminal justice systems, regarding the treatment of inmates and/or incarcerated individuals, which includes state statue, American with Disabilities Act (ADA), Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), and department and administrative regulations and policies, standards 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 job duties;
• willingness to respectfully work with a diverse population;
• conduct searches (general area, metal detector, pat, perimeter, unclothed or vehicle);
• operate communications equipment in a professional manner. (e.g. two-way radio, telephone, public address equipment);
• willingness to follow chain of command;
• work as a team with a diverse group of people.

Job Functions:

• Provides work direction to Correctional Officers on the unit and performs 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.
• Maintain controlled movement of offender population.
• Monitor and control access to the facility and restricted areas.
• Utilizing proper protocols when responding to emergency situations.
• Follow established tool and key control;
• Assist the Officer In Charge (OIC) in daily management tasks.
• Performs other work as assigned.

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

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 earning wages below self-sufficiency, low levels of literacy or English proficiency, disability status, basic skills deficient, homelessness, ex-offenders and justice involved, and public assistance dependency.

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Two (2) years of corrections experience where knowledge of offender classification, offender disciplinary system, grievance process, housing assignments and offender programs was obtained and Role Modeling Pro-Social…