About This Role
This role involves providing security and supervision for detainees at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, ensuring a safe and secure environment. It includes conducting security checks, detainee searches, facility counts, and assisting with facility sanitation and meal service. The position suits a candidate committed to maintaining order and safety in a correctional setting.
Responsibilities
- Provide security checks of the facility and outer perimeter to ensure no breaches of security
- Monitor all detainee activity
- Perform detainee pat searches, bunk searches, cell searches, and housing unit searches
- Confiscate unauthorized or illegal materials from units
- Inspect physical structure of units for damages
- Inspect all equipment, doors, locks, and mobile equipment for missing parts
- Maintain a Logbook documenting all daily activities and pertinent information
- Inform Shift Commander of all unusual activities and respond to emergency situations
- Conduct Facility Counts at designated and random, unannounced times to ensure all detainees are accounted for, safe, and secured
- Confirm detainee
- Provide direct and indirect supervision for detainees housed in Specialty Housing Units
- Escort detainees from housing units to Sick Call, Mental Health Appointments, Programs, Video Court Arraignments, Attorney Visitation, Visitation, Zoom Visitation, and Work Details
- Provide transport for detainees to and from court, hospital, and scheduled medical/dental appointments
- Facilitate sanitation by issuing cleaning supplies to units, detainee hygiene, clean clothing, and bed linen
- Ensure detainees receive a meal tray three times daily
- Process new intakes by booking required information into the facility database
- Log and store personal property
- Ensure a Medical Health Assessment has been conducted, followed by forwarding documents to appropriate personnel
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- Valid Driver
- At least 18 years of age at time of hire
Nice to have:
- College coursework in related fields: criminal justice, social work, or psychology
- Experience working in a correctional facility
- Basic computer/data entry experience
- Experience working in local/county government
- Knowledge of basic computer/data entry skills
- Knowledge of chain of command as it relates to a detention center
- Skilled in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with co-workers, superiors, detainees, inmates, and members of the public