Pewee Valley, KY 40056 USA
The Corrections Recreation Leader is responsible for planning, organizing, and supervising recreational activities to meet specific needs, interests, and abilities of inmates within the facility. This position will need to accommodate a varied population of offenders with a variety of innovative planned activities and daily recreational opportunities.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Plan, direct and coordinate recreational activities to meet needs of correctional clients in a large correctional institution.
- Consult with various institutional staff in planning programs for residents.
- Gather information on offender skills, abilities, and interests in an effort to recommend, plan and implement recreational activities.
- Supervise institution gymnasium sanitation, general maintenance of recreation equipment, and inventory of supplies.
- Attend institution meetings.
- Prepare various reports.
- Maintain records on recreational equipment.
- Direct leagues, tournaments, and holiday events for all inmate populations.
- Maintain records and inventories of recreational equipment.
Responsibilities and personal characteristics for success include, but are not limited to, the following;
- Demonstrate capacity to multi-task and effectively communicate and command large numbers of inmates. For example, you will at times be a referee, umpire, official, and supervisor, which requires good judgement, consistency, fairness, cooperation, integrity, and professionalism.
- Organizational skills- must have willingness and capacity to propose large-scale events and oversee the conclusion of these events. This involves planning, scheduling, report writing, and creative thinking.
- Maintain all security, caustic, and tool logs to ensure all Institutional Policies and Procedures (IPPs) and Corrections Policies and Procedures (CPP’s) are followed.
- Assist in training and supervision of inmate Recreation workers.
- Should possess unusually high levels of initiative by making good decisions and carrying out specific job tasks/assignments with little supervision.
- Should show initiative to confront inmates to ensure the rules of the Recreation Department and Institution are followed. Ensure resolve on such matters for the safety and security of the Institution.
- Submit weekly and monthly reports to Recreation Supervisor as requested.
- General knowledge of various card and table games/events/tournaments, single, partner and team sporting events/matches.
- Ability to work with complex electronic and exercise equipment and provide general maintenance thereto.
- Should be able to recognize stress on equipment and when repairs are required.