Corrections Officer

Seward, NE
Seward County Sheriff

Salary: $22.91

Essential Functions:

  • This is a direct contact entry-level position in a correctional facility.
  • Work involves providing security and care to incarcerated individuals, ensuring inmate safety, enforcing rules and regulations, maintaining order, escorting inmates, and supervising various inmate activities and programs.
  • Work also involves providing input into the treatment of individual inmates and the correctional facility population in general through reporting observations to counseling, medical and supervisory staff.
  • Work is performed under the general supervision of a superior with work reviewed in the form of reports, conferences and observations.

Requirements:

  • Must be at least 19 years of age.
  • A U.S. citizen, have a high school diploma or GED.
  • No convictions punishable by imprisonment in a federal or state penitentiary for a term of one year or more unless pardon received, and must possess a valid driver’s license.
  • Seward County also offers a competitive benefit package.
  • College level course work in Criminal Justice, Psychology, Sociology, Human Services or related field and some experience in the following, or any combination thereof: a correctional setting, as a counselor in a social setting, in law enforcement work, in the military, particularly in law enforcement or corrections, or with responsibility for individuals in other institutional settings.