Correctional Officer

State of Iowa • Rockwell City - 50579 - Calhoun County, IA

34d • Onsite

About The Position

The Iowa Department of Corrections offers a meaningful and steady career with excellent pay and benefits. This role provides opportunities for training, teamwork, and professional progress in a challenging and honorable field. It is not just a job, but a career where you can pave your professional path.

Requirements

• Graduation from high school, GED, or equivalency.
• Must be able to successfully pass psychological tests.
• Must be able to successfully pass a background investigation check.
• Must be able to successfully pass a post-offer health screen administered by an institutional physician.
• Must be able to successfully pass a urinalysis screen for drugs.
• Must complete all new employee training during the probationary period, including local orientation, new employee orientation, and emergency preparedness training.
• Designated positions may require applicants to obtain a Commercial Driver's License and endorsements within a period of time as determined by the appointing authority at the time of hire.

Responsibilities

• Observes incarcerated individual behavior/interaction with staff, other incarcerated individuals, and visitors; communicates and documents observations to ensure effective security and consistent application of incarcerated individual change principles.
• Continuously interacts with incarcerated individuals, utilizing behavioral techniques to assist in the development of problem-solving skills, facilitating behavior change, role-playing, effective disapproval, providing positive reinforcement when appropriate, and instituting corrective measures through the effective use of disapproval.
• Patrols facilities and makes security checks; conducts rounds and incarcerated individual counts; inspects all areas of the institution and grounds for safety/security deficiencies.
• Conducts searches of incarcerated individuals, vehicles, packages, equipment, incarcerated individuals’ cells and property for contraband items.
• Instructs incarcerated individuals in rules, policy, procedure, expectations, and assists incarcerated individuals in the development of attitudes and skills necessary for successful adaptation to life within an institution and a pro-social lifestyle.
• Escorts incarcerated individuals, visitors, and staff inside/outside of the institution and verifies possession of appropriate passes or legal documents.
• Interacts with the general public, visitors, and victims in person or via phone, providing information, security, and assistance.
• Role models pro-social behaviors that convey dignity and respect for others and acknowledge that incarcerated individuals can change their lives by development of skills and the adoption of pro-social attitudes and behaviors.
• Maintains logs, prepares reports, and enters information into the Department of Corrections electronic record system.
• Supervises incarcerated individual work assignments and evaluates work performance.
• Operates electronic doors, telephone systems, two-way radios, intercom, alarm systems, closed circuit TV systems, personal data assistants, computer terminals, and weapons/incarcerated individual control devices.
• Attends training and professional development classes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Shift differential for 2nd and 3rd shifts
• Annual merit increases
• Opportunity for training and advancement
• Paid Vacation and Sick Leave
• State insurance for individuals and/or eligible family members
• IPERS retirement system
• Deferred Compensation retirement savings plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and/or dependent care expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED