Correctional Officer (Senior Officer Specialist)

Full Job Description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: GL-06: Nine (9) semester hours or fourteen (14) quarter hours of graduate level education in a major study in criminal justice, social science, or other field related to this position.

GL-07: One full academic year of graduate education with major study in criminal justice, social science, or other field related to the position is qualifying for GL-07.

OR Experience: GL-06: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade.

Specialized experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position to be filled.

Examples of occupations where specialized experience may have been gained: Correctional Officer Detention Officer Police Officer Border Patrol Agent State Trooper Sheriff Park Ranger Deputy Sheriff supervising inmates in a jail Mental Health Counselor in a Residential Facility Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience with instructing inmates with proper housekeeping and sanitation.

Experience working as a Police Officer responding to domestic disturbances and issuing citations for law violations. Experience in investigating crime scenes as a State Trooper.

Experience as a Mental Health Worker in a Mental Health Lockdown facility.

GL-07: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade.

Specialized experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position to be filled.

Examples of occupations where specialized experience may have been gained: Correctional Officer Jailer Detention Officer Deputy Sheriff supervising inmates in a jail.

Military Corrections (Brig, Internment/Resettlement Specialist, etc. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Providing supervision, care and security of inmates in a correctional environment.

Experience supervising inmates throughout the institution and providing instructions related to institutional procedures and sanitation.

Experience with enforcing rules and regulations governing correctional institution security, inmate accountability and inmate conduct. Experience with conducting various count procedures of inmates.

Experience working various correctional posts, assignments (such as Control Room, Rear-gate, Housing Units, etc.).

AND Medical Requirement: GL-06 and GL-07: The Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons has established the following medical requirements for Correctional Officer positions: The duties of these positions involve unusual mental and nervous pressure and require arduous physical exertion involving prolonged walking and standing, restraining of prisoners in emergencies, and participating in escape hunts.

Applicants must be physically capable of performing efficiently the duties of these positions, and be free from such defects or disease as may constitute employment hazards to themselves or others.

The duties of a Correctional Officer are arduous; and sound health as well as physical fitness is required. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience.

To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.** Major Duties:

Provides supervision, care and correctional treatment of inmates and guidance to lower-graded Correctional Officers.

Concerned with maintenance of institution security contributing to the health and welfare of the inmates and the promotion of good public relations.

Enforces rules and regulations governing facility security, inmate accountability and inmate conduct to ensure judicial sanctions are carried out and inmates remain in custody.

From time to time, may be authorized to carry firearms and to use physical force, including deadly force, to maintain control of inmates.

During institution emergencies or other periods of heavy workload or limited staff, may be required to work long and irregular hours, unusual shifts, Sundays, holidays and unexpected overtime.

Senior Officer Specialist must be flexible and have a broad knowledge base to use own initiative in the resolution of problem situations.