What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corrections Officer position at Bell County Texas?
Come work at a place where we strive to promote and create a safe community. We take pride in living and working in Central Texas and are looking for exceptional talent to join our team.
Job Description :
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.
- Completes meal procedures by receiving food carts from kitchen, ensuring meals are at appropriate serving temperature, identifying inmates with special diets, introduces trays into cells, ensuring each tray is complete, retrieving trays, spoons and cups from cells, performing a spoon count and sending utensils back to kitchen.
- Conducts security checks by walking exterior catwalk, inspecting bars, windows, screens, locks and doors, performing walks in cells and checking locks and windows in hallways.
- Performs routine searches of inmates and housing areas by performing strip searches, conducting pat searches and conducting cell searches.
- Responds to emergencies by arriving on the scene of an emergency, separating, restraining or evacuating inmates in the affected areas, conducting initial investigation of the incident, notifying appropriate personnel and providing detailed reports to the supervisor.
- Processes incoming subjects by fingerprinting, searching, and completing necessary forms during the booking process and photographing; supervises the phone calls made by inmates and subjects being booked, and inventorying and storing personal properties.
- Prepares and maintains documents and reports including daily progress reports, booking reports, property reports, medical forms, activity sheets, released 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 record of everyone admitted to or released from the correctional facility.
- Performs related work as required.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements :
Requires High School graduation or GED equivalent supplemented by specialized courses / training.
Physical Demands :
Unavoidable Hazards (Work Environment) :
Special Certifications and Licenses :
Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance
Bell County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires the County to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.
Additional Qualifications :
Proposed Compensation :
Additional Recruiting Instruction :
Shift assignment varies depending on staffing needs. Any shift listed in this job posting is not guaranteed to be the shift you will be assigned to. The Jail is a 24 / 7 operation and employees must be able to work any and all shifts to include holidays.
Bell County is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy located at the Historic Courthouse, 3rd Floor, in downtown Belton.
