Corrections Officer
Position Summary:
Under the direct supervision of the Sergeant or Corporal, this position is responsible to provide care, custody, and control of inmates for the Carroll County Department of Corrections in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. Duties include but are not limited to supervising inmate activities to ensure a safe and secure environment, processing incoming inmates, completing intake paperwork, issuing clothing and toilet articles, taking fingerprints and identification photos, and advising inmates on correctional facility rules and regulation, maintaining control room logs, answering the phone and receiving visitors, and inspecting cells, dayrooms, kitchen, dining room, visiting room, and other areas for security breaches.
Essential Functions:
1. Supervise all inmate activities to ensure a safe and secure environment both inside and outside the Department facilities.
2. Process incoming inmates, completes intake paperwork, issues clothing and toilet articles, takes fingerprints and identification photos, and advises inmates on correctional facility rules and regulations.
3. Maintains Control Room logs.
4. Answers the phone and receives visitors.
5. Inspects cells, dayrooms, kitchen, dining room, visiting room, and other areas for security breaches.
6. Transports inmates inside and outside the facility.
7. Conducts inmate counts.
8. Maintains inmate order, discipline, safety and security.
9. Supervises inmate programs as requested.
Requirements:
- The successful candidate will be eighteen years old and possess a high school diploma or GED/HiSet.
- Some experience preferred but not required. In addition, the ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of correctional facility policies and procedures, to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with staff, inmates and their families, and the general public, and to plan and perform diversified duties requiring judgment in the analysis of situations, adapting standard procedures to meet different conditions, and making decisions based on precedent and policy.
- Must be able to pass a physical agility test.