Job description
** Job Description: CORRECTIONS OFFICER/SHIFT SUPERVISOR **
**CLASS NO. 1053 EEOC CATEGORY: ** Service Workers ** **
**PAY GROUP: **215 ** FLSA: **Non-exempt
** SUMMARY OF POSITION :**
Provides corrections services involving the health, safety, and security of inmates and the public in a corrections facility or program; monitors prisoners activities; and maintains necessary records.
** ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: **
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Reports to : Jail Administrator.
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Directs : Corrections Officers.
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Other : Works closely with departmental employees, other law enforcement agencies and personnel, parole and probation officers, inmates, and the general public.
** EXAMPLES OF WORK :**
Essential Duties
Supervises all activities and personnel on assigned shift;
Photographs and fingerprints new inmates;
Conducts inspections, shakedowns, and inmate searches;
Prepares arraignment sheets and issues court dates;
Completes, checks, and processes official papers and documents;
Ensures that all inmate information is entered into computer;
Conducts safety inspections and inspections of fire exits and equipment;
Assist medical staff with distributing medications to inmates;
Maintains and updates records on inmates, including personal history and medical records;
Intervenes and resolves crisis situations such as fights and medical emergencies, including physical restraint of inmates;
Conducts head counts of inmates;
Maintains inventory of jail supplies;
Serves or supervises the serving of meals to inmates;
Ensures officers leave arrest reports and tickets;
Supervises work performed by inmates;
Collects fines for offenses committed;
Assists with the personal needs of inmates, such as telephone calls, mail, laundry, visits, bedding, personal hygiene, and commissary;
Receives and deposits money for commissary accounts;
Monitors and assists visitors and maintains visitor lists;
Conducts and supervises recreational programs for inmates, including overseeing religious services;
Assists with warrants;
Serves as Bailiff in Justice of the Peace Court when necessary;
Assists dispatch with calls when necessary, including answering Crime Stoppers calls;
Keeps records of incidents and activities during shift;
Trains new officers in procedural aspects of job;
Assists with warrants and researches records for Deputies and/or Detectives;
Confiscates, inventories, and stores property from new inmates and releases property to outgoing prisoners;
Dresses out inmates and put them in their cells; and
Other Important Duties *
May be assigned to transportation and court security duties; and
Performs such other duties as may be assigned.
Location : Livingston, TX 77351