Corrections Officer I

Job description

Job Description Summary Department - Sheriff's Department Job Description OPEN UNTIL FILLED: Job Type: Classified: Job Classification: 4000 - Corrections Officer I Salary Grade: L1: Pay Range: Starting: $26.18 Per Hour: Please note, this is an open and continuous recruitment. Performs corrections work ensuring the welfare of adult inmates, court or direct remanded juvenile inmates, departmental and superior court staff, and maintaining security control and custody in a functional unit of a direct supervision jail.* This is distinguished from the Deputy Sheriff classification, which is certified to exercise law enforcement powers. In a direct supervision jail, corrections staff controls behavior of the jail population through a proactive concept based on direct inmate supervision. In this setting, inmates are given the responsibility to influence their treatment and privileges through control of their own behavior. This direct supervision approach is unlike the more traditional reactive containment approach, which utilizes bars, security glass and other barriers. This division operates 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. All positions are required to engage in inmate contact, to work...