CORRECTIONAL PROBATION SENIOR OFFICER - 70018559

State of Florida•Osprey, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Correctional Probation Senior Officer supervises, surveils, and maintains a specialized caseload that may include youthful offenders, drug offender probation, community controlees, pre-trial intervention offenders, and offender releases, or a combination of these groups. As workload demands require, the officer may supervise other offender classifications. Duties may also include intake, court liaison, training, and installation of electronic monitoring devices. 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 overseeing program participants. The officer encourages offenders to comply with supervision orders through guidance, goal setting, monitoring, and community supervision. The role includes conducting investigations and supervision contacts, assessing needs and arranging services, maintaining case records and payment plans, making recommendations to sentencing or releasing authorities, and reporting violations. The officer represents the department in hearings and works with judicial, law enforcement, treatment, governmental, nonprofit, and other criminal justice partners. Other duties include counseling, substance testing, searches and arrests, electronic monitoring, administrative support, and training. This is an internal promotional opportunity open only to current Florida Department of Corrections employees. The vacancy is at the 12-3 Holiday Harbor Probation and Parole Office in Osprey, Florida. Applicants must apply electronically through People First; incomplete applicant profiles will not be considered. Salary is determined under current pay procedures.

Requirements

Must be a current Florida Department of Corrections employee; this is an internal promotional opportunity only.
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 under 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.

Responsibilities

Supervise, surveil, and maintain specialized offender caseloads, and supervise other offender classifications as workload demands require.
Encourage offender compliance through guidance, goal setting, behavior monitoring, and community supervision.
Conduct field and office supervision contacts, including personal, collateral, community, surveillance, telephone, and electronic contacts.
Respond appropriately to public and victim needs, concerns, and complaints.
Assess offender needs and supervision objectives; arrange referrals and structured treatment, education, counseling, social service, health, vocational, and substance-abuse programs; and monitor adherence.
Develop offender payment plans for monetary obligations and enforce compliance.
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, prosecutorial, defense, law-enforcement, treatment, nonprofit, governmental, departmental, and other criminal justice partners; develop local law-enforcement partnerships.
Conduct individual and group counseling and interview offenders for supervision or investigation purposes.
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 assignments.
Search and arrest offenders under supervision; install and maintain electronic/radio monitoring equipment, including GPS systems, and interpret monitoring data.
Handle administrative duties and assist supervisors in their absence as assigned.
Serve on teams, committees, and task forces; attend and deliver job-related and career-development training; and potentially serve as a day-to-day training officer for a correctional probation officer.
Perform duties that may include intake officer, court liaison, trainer, electronic monitoring device installer, supervision of a correctional probation officer at a probation and restitution center, and monitoring a residential treatment facility.