About This Role
Working to promote and create a safe community, the Corrections Officer ensures the security and well-being of inmates within a correctional facility. This role involves a variety of tasks from meal procedures and security checks to emergency response and inmate processing, suitable for an individual committed to maintaining order and safety.
Responsibilities
- Complete meal procedures by receiving food carts, ensuring appropriate serving temperature, identifying inmates with special diets, introducing and retrieving trays, and performing spoon counts
- Conduct security checks by inspecting bars, windows, screens, locks, and doors in exterior catwalks, cells, and hallways
- Perform routine searches of inmates and housing areas, including strip searches, pat searches, and cell searches
- Respond to emergencies by separating, restraining, or evacuating inmates, conducting initial investigations, notifying appropriate personnel, and providing detailed reports
- Process incoming subjects by fingerprinting, searching, completing necessary forms, photographing, supervising phone calls, and inventorying and storing personal properties
- Prepare and maintain documents and reports including daily progress reports, booking reports, property reports, medical forms, activity sheets, release sheets, medical and phone logs, jail and court lists, head count forms, time sheets, receipts, incident reports, and computer release dates
- Operate within the correctional facility system to keep records of everyone admitted to or released from the facility
- Perform related work as required
Requirements
- High School graduation or GED equivalent supplemented by specialized courses/training
- Ability to perform light to medium work that involves walking or standing virtually all of the time
- Ability to exert between 20 and 50 pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis
- Skill, adeptness, and speed in the use of fingers, hands, or limbs on repetitive operation of mechanical or electronic office or shop machines or tools within moderate tolerances or limits of accuracy
- Must possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license with an acceptable driving history
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Holiday pay
- Sick leave
- Vacation time
- Retirement pay
Important Details
- Schedule: Shift assignment varies depending on staffing needs; employees must be able to work any and all shifts, including holidays, as the Jail is a 24/7 operation
About the Company
Bell County strives to promote and create a safe community in Central Texas.
