Bucks County Co - Doylestown, United States - Bucks County Department of Corrections
3 weeks ago
Description
COME JOIN OUR TEAM - First year earnings between $62,000-$92,000. The more you work additional hours the higher earning potential. 2024 pay rate and shift differential will increase.
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Job Details:
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JOB TITLE:Corrections Officer
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JOB CODE:0346
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DEPARTMENT:Department of Corrections
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UNION:01
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FLSA STATUS:Non-Exempt
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GRADE:346
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Job Type:Full-time
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Salary:$62, $92,000.00 per year
- Work Location: In person
- General duty corrections work maintaining security and discipline in the Bucks County Correctional System on an assigned shift.
- Work includes responsibility for supervising offenders at a work location, in housing units, transporting to and from outside appointments and between institutions, and in performing of general tasks as required.
- Work is performed under the supervision of higherlevel corrections personnel.
- Work involves regular exposure to unpredictable conditions and occasionally requires the expenditure of physical effort in restraining and subduing offenders.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Patrols an assigned area of any of the four correctional institutions; supervises offenders in housing units; and observes offenders to detect or prevent disturbances.
- Escorts offenders throughout the institution; assists in maintaining order in recreation areas; enforces institution rules; and oversees the work of offenders in routine cleaning and laboring operations.
- Stands watch to prevent escapes and to regulate the admission of visitors to the institution.
- Operates security control centers, regulates movement of individuals between areas of the prison/community corrections; maintains telephone, public address, and electronic communications; and maintains current records of offender population and their whereabouts.
- May operate automotive equipment in transporting offenders and patrolling prison perimeter.
- Ability to react to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned.
- Daily contact with incarcerated individuals and employees; meet and deal professionally with visitors and volunteers.
- May be required to perform additional work that follows prescribed or wellestablished procedures that can be learned within a reasonable time by training on the job. More detailed instructions, as to the nature of the duties, will be given to employees at the beginning of work.
- Occasionally requires physically restraining and subduing offenders.
- Ability to adapt to changing technological innovations.
- Ability to work forced overtime with little or no notice.
- Ability to learn the attitudes and group habits of offenders in custody.
- Ability to learn and enforce, with firmness and impartiality, a wide variety of correctional institution rules, regulations, and disciplinary measures.
- Ability and willingness to carry out detailed orders.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with offenders and associates.
- Ability to act quickly and calmly in an emergency.
- Ability to read orders and instructions.
- Ability to write understandable and readable reports.
- This position carries a oneyear probation period.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- Keyboard skill of 20 WPM.
- Basic skills for computer and mouse.
- Requires a valid proper class motor vehicle operator's license prior to appointment and during tenure as a Corrections Officer.
- Ability to perform duties while "locked" inside a correctional facility in direct contact with incarcerated offenders.
- Must successfully complete the Department of Corrections Basic Training class.
FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Lifting: Very Heavy (over 100 lbs)
- Carrying: Heavy (over 100 lbs)
- Physical Demands: (Check all that apply)
- Balancing X, Stooping X, Pushing X, Climbing X, Crouching X, Pulling X, Crawling X
- Kneeling X, Handling X, Standing X, Sitting X, Talking X, Turning X, Reaching X, Hearing X, Seeing X, Depth Perception X, Mobility X,
Aptitudes:
(Check all that apply)
Form perception X, Problem-solving X, Motor coordination X, Working speed (ex. wpm) X, Finger dexterity X, Manual dexterity X, Computer/VDT ability X, General learning ability X, Clerical perception X
Environmental Conditions:
(Check all that apply)
Temperature changes X, Wet conditions X, Exposure to fumes X, Exposure to blood and body fluids X, Noise a
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