Detention Officer

Detention Officer

Department: Security

Reports to:

Facility/Company:

Effective Date: 2/22/2022

Job Summary:

Maintains custody, care, and control of non-citizens. Monitors non-citizens activities and enforces security department’s policies and procedures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises non-citizens in living areas and recreational activities. Supervises non-citizens and visitors in visitation areas.
• Serves as control center officer, coordinates and monitors non-citizen movements, conduct counts, and provides emergency response.
• Serves as mailroom, field tower, medical security, perimeter security, and/or gate officer as required.
• Provides security in treatment activities and supervises labor crews in the kitchen and other specialized areas.
• Ensures prompt and appropriate assistance to non-citizens in the event of injury, illness, and emotional trauma.
• Prepares reports and maintains daily logs as required.
• Initiates disciplinary reports.
• Conduct shakedown for contraband materials, either individually or as part of a specialized team.
• Promotes facility cleanliness and reports need for maintenance and/or repairs.
• Serves as a member of special teams to respond.
• Successful completion of training courses and on-the-job training as required by facility training standards.
• Performs a variety of marginal duties not listed, to be determined and assigned as needed.

Required Knowledge Skills/Abilities:

• Must be representative of worthwhile qualities to which a non-citizen can identify

• Must be emotionally stable, understanding, and philosophically attuned to the objective of the facility.
• Language skills and reasoning ability are crucial to success in this position.
• Interacts daily with non-citizens and staff members while providing security for the facility.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience in correctional setting is highly desirable

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to satisfactorily perform these essential functions without causing an undue hardship for the employer.

• Long periods of continuous standing and walking.
• Frequent periods of sitting.
• Repetitive climbing of stairs to reach the assigned areas and working at heights.
• Occasional kneeling, squatting, and bending to perform “pat” or “strip” searches.
• Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting.

• Occasionally responding to altercations and occasional restraining and securing assaultive offenders.

• Ability to respond rapidly to potential security and/or medical codes/issues.
• Frequent transferrers and transporting non-citizens by walking or riding in various vehicles such as vans, buses, and other forms of transportation.
• Continuous periods of operating/driving company vehicles to pick up and transport non-citizens.
• Remaining awake and alert while on duty.
• Occasional lifting and carrying.
• Ability to occasionally withstand direct or indirect exposure to OC spray.
• Ability to hear and understand verbal communication.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $24.04 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Night shift

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Alvarado, TX 76009: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person