CORRECTIONAL PROBATION SENIOR OFFICER - 70028597

State of Florida•Daytona Beach, GA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Correctional Probation Senior Officer supervises, surveils, and maintains a specialized caseload that may include youthful offenders, drug offender probationers, community controlees, pre-trial intervention offenders, and offender releases. Depending on workload demands, the officer may supervise other offender classifications. The role may also include intake, court liaison, training, and electronic monitoring installation duties. The position may direct and supervise a correctional probation officer at a probation and restitution center or monitor a residential treatment facility as the department’s on-site representative. The officer promotes compliance with supervision orders through guidance, goal setting, monitoring, and community supervision. Duties include conducting supervision contacts and investigations; assessing needs and arranging treatment or support services; maintaining case records and payment plans; making recommendations to sentencing or releasing authorities; appearing at hearings; and reporting violations. The officer also coordinates with criminal justice, governmental, treatment, and community partners, counsels offenders, monitors substance use, arranges public service placements, conducts searches and arrests, and installs and maintains electronic monitoring equipment. Administrative, training, team, and policy-related assignments may also be required. This is an internal promotional opportunity for current Florida Department of Corrections employees. The vacancy is at the Daytona Central Probation and Parole Office in Daytona Beach, Florida. Applicants must apply electronically through People First, and incomplete applicant profiles will not be considered.

Requirements

Must be certified in accordance with Florida Statutes 943.13.
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Must possess a valid driver’s license as a condition of employment, in accordance with Florida Administrative Code 33-208.402 and Florida Statutes 322.03(3).
Ability to work independently and/or under stressful conditions.
Ability to communicate effectively.
Knowledge of techniques for advising, interviewing, and counseling.
Ability to review and analyze data.
Ability to assist offenders in solving problems.
Ability to conduct investigations.
Ability to apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments.
Only current Florida Department of Corrections employees will be considered.
Applicants must submit an electronic application through People First and provide complete current and previous employment, training, and education information in their applicant profile.

Responsibilities

Supervise, surveil, and maintain a specialized offender caseload, and supervise other classifications as workload demands require.
Encourage offender compliance with supervision orders through guidance, goal setting, behavior monitoring, and community supervision.
Conduct field and office supervision contacts using personal, collateral, community, surveillance, telephone, and electronic methods.
Respond appropriately and promptly to public and victim needs, concerns, and complaints.
Assess offender needs and treatment options, establish supervision objectives and structured programs, make referrals, and monitor adherence to plans.
Develop payment plans for monetary obligations and enforce compliance with those plans.
Maintain electronic and hard-copy case records documenting offender background, legal history, treatment, and progress; take digitized offender photographs for website placement.
Conduct pre-sentence, pre-trial, post-sentence, interstate compact, sentencing guidelines, and other required investigations.
Recommend continued supervision, revocation, diversion, or incarceration to sentencing or releasing authorities.
Attend hearings or appear as a witness, report non-compliance, and prepare and forward violation and other required reports.
Maintain liaison with judicial, legal, law enforcement, treatment, nonprofit, governmental, departmental, and other criminal justice partners; develop local law-enforcement partnerships.
Conduct formal and informal individual and group counseling and interview offenders as needed.
Monitor and test offenders for controlled substances and alcohol as directed or as necessary for community protection.
Develop and maintain resources for offender public service placements when directed.
Conduct searches and make arrests of offenders under supervision.
Install and maintain electronic and radio monitoring equipment, including GPS systems, and interpret collected data to document compliance.
Perform administrative duties, assist supervisors in their absence when assigned, and serve on teams, committees, and task forces.
Attend and deliver job-related and career-development training; may serve as day-to-day trainer for a correctional probation officer.
May perform intake, court liaison, training, electronic monitoring installation, probation and restitution center supervision, or residential treatment facility monitoring duties.