Job description
** Job Description: CORPORAL - JAIL **
**CLASS NO. 1057 EEOC CATEGORY: ** Service Workers ** **
**PAY GROUP: 213 FLSA: **Non-exempt
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** 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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Report to : Corrections Officer/Shift Supervisor or 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 **
- Provides intermediate supervision in the absence of the Corrections Officer/Shift Supervisor.
- 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
- Assists 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;
- Books, classifies, transfers, transports, and releases inmates with attention to the health, safety, and security of other officers, inmates, and the public.
- Trains new officers in procedural aspects of job;
- 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 train new officers in procedural aspects of job;
- May be assigned to transportation and court security dates;
- May assist with warrants and research records for Deputies and/or Detectives;
- Performs such other duties as may be assigned.
** REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: **
- *Knowledge of: *laws, departmental policies, rules, regulations, instructions, and correctional literature regarding the custody of persons.
- Ability to: train, supervise, motivate, understand and follow oral instructions; write clear and concise reports; maintain complete records as required; establish and maintain effective working relationships with other county employees and officials, inmates, and the general public; and maintain appropriate necessary certifications.
- Other: may be required to translate between Spanish and English.
** ACCEPTABLE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING: **
- High school graduation and one year of corrections experience;
- or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
** CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES REQUIRED: **
- Basic certification as a Corrections Officer from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education.
- Certification as a Peace Officer by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standard and Education may be preferred for some positions.
Location : Livingston, TX 77351