Correctional Officer

State of Iowa•Mitchellville - 50169 - Polk County, IA

67d•Onsite

About The Position

The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women (ICIW) is the sole female correctional facility and reception center for the Iowa Department of Corrections. Correctional Officers are essential to ICIW's operations, ensuring the safety and security of both the prison population and staff. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on an incarcerated person's life while contributing to the maintenance of safe and secure correctional facilities. New officers receive a full-time salary during training and benefit from a competitive state benefits package.

Requirements

Graduation from high school, GED, or equivalency.
Ability to successfully pass psychological tests.
Ability to pass a background investigation check.
Ability to pass a post-offer health screen administered by an institutional physician.
Ability to pass a urinalysis screen for drugs.
Ability to 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 determined by the appointing authority at the time of hire.

Responsibilities

Observes incarcerated individual behavior and interactions with staff, other incarcerated individuals, and visitors, communicating and documenting observations to ensure effective security and consistent application of incarcerated individual change principles.
Interacts with incarcerated individuals, utilizing behavioral techniques to assist in developing problem-solving skills, facilitating behavior change, role-playing, effective disapproval, providing positive reinforcement, and instituting corrective measures.
Patrols facilities and conducts security checks, rounds, and incarcerated individual counts, inspecting all areas for safety and security deficiencies.
Conducts searches of incarcerated individuals, vehicles, packages, equipment, and cells for contraband.
Instructs incarcerated individuals on rules, policy, and procedure, assisting them in developing attitudes and skills for successful adaptation to institutional life and a pro-social lifestyle.
Escorts incarcerated individuals, visitors, and staff inside and outside the institution, verifying 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, acknowledging that incarcerated individuals can change their lives.
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.