About This Role
This Corrections Officer position involves maintaining security within adult correctional facilities and ensuring the safety of offenders, staff, and visitors. The role requires adherence to established rules and regulations, intervention during emergencies, and active participation in rehabilitative activities. This is an armed post.
Responsibilities
- Maintain security in buildings, towers, and other posts of an adult correctional facility
- Intervene during emergencies or altercations and gain physical control of offenders
- Supervise, escort, and/or transport the movement of offenders inside and outside the correctional facility
- Conduct periodic counts and search offenders and their living quarters for contraband
- Supervise housing units and offenders during work, recreational, and religious activities
- Conduct health and safety hazards inspections
- Perform random and specific searches of residents and visitors to prevent the introduction of contraband into the facility
- Search housing, buildings, physical plants, supply areas, and personal property for weapons and contraband
- Conduct interviews and obtain statements of victims, witnesses, suspects, and other involved parties during incidents
- Prepare appropriate tracking, reports, and documentation pertaining to occurrences, actions, and incidents
- Discuss issues and minor adjustment problems with offenders and refer more severe concerns to superiors or proper correctional facility staff
- Promote rehabilitation by modifying offenders' social attitudes, discouraging undesirable behaviors, and encouraging worthwhile activities
- Detain offenders, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints
- Subdue resisting offenders using maneuvers, approved non-lethal and lethal methods, if necessary
- Utilize weapons (non-lethal and lethal), and hands and feet in self-defense to establish safe control
- Perform rescue functions as a first responder within correctional facilities and grounds
- Administer emergency medical aid and evacuate offenders, visitors, and staff from dangerous situations
- Communicate with other agency members and outside emergency medical resources for response
- Implement protective protocols and utilize appropriate gear and tools for disease prevention, health and safety, overdose of substances, and exposure to violence
- Utilize several technological tools and devices while performing diverse security and administrative duties, including handheld radios, recording devices, computers, security control panels, tarsiers, and firearms
- Enter and access records and protect confidential criminal justice data stored in various information systems
- Maintain all ongoing training requirements of the DOC and New Hampshire law enforcement, including mental health training, post-traumatic stress disorder, ethics, unconscious bias, diversity, and Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia
