Detention Officer
Detention Officer
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Detention Officer
Highlights:
Location: Phoenix AZ
Position Type: directhire
Hourly / Salary: Based on experience
Residency Status: US Citizen
Our client is looking to hire a detention officer to join their team.
Position Description:
Are you passionate about serving and protecting your community Now is your chance to as a Detention Officer! In this role high importance is placed on ensuring public safety is provided and maintained by an individual who takes pride in their work and considers the impact of their actions on an individual team and organizational level.
We are looking for candidates with strong interpersonal and customer service skills the ability to effectively resolve conflict and a desire to enhance public safety. Ideal candidates will have a keen sense of emotional intelligence and be motivated by serving others and their community. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you...your adventure awaits!
Essential Job Tasks:
Requirements:
Minimum Education/ Experience:
Specialized training certifications and/or other special requirements:
Minimum physical readiness standards (If you have any questions about your health or your ability to participate in the assessments it is your responsibility to consult with your healthcare provider prior to application):
Assessment 1: Maximum PushUps
What is measured by the Assessment: Upper Body Muscular Endurance
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): Eleven 11
Assessment 2: Maximum SitUps (Under One Minute)
What is measured by the Assessment: Abdominal Muscular Endurance
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): Sixteen 16
Assessment 3: 1.5 Mile Run
What is measured by the Assessment: Aerobic Power
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 21:48 Minutes
Assessment 4: 300 Meter Run
What is measured by the Assessment: Anaerobic Power
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 1:37 Minutes 97 Seconds)
Assessment 5: One 1 Repetition Bench Press
What is measured by the Assessment: Upper Body Absolute Strength
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 90 Pounds or 53 of Body Weight whichever is less.
Assessment 6: Illinois Agility Run (consists of sprints through and around cones)
What is measured by the Assessment: Agility and Coordination
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 22.6 Seconds
Assessment 7: Vertical Jump
What is measured by the Assessment: Explosive Leg Strength
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): Eleven 11 inches (Fourteen 14 inches if measured with VERTEC)
Preferred education and/or experience:
Preferred training certifications and/or other special requirements:
"We are GTN – The Go To Network"
Highlights:
Location: Phoenix AZ
Position Type: directhire
Hourly / Salary: Based on experience
Residency Status: US Citizen
Our client is looking to hire a detention officer to join their team.
Position Description:
Are you passionate about serving and protecting your community Now is your chance to as a Detention Officer! In this role high importance is placed on ensuring public safety is provided and maintained by an individual who takes pride in their work and considers the impact of their actions on an individual team and organizational level.
We are looking for candidates with strong interpersonal and customer service skills the ability to effectively resolve conflict and a desire to enhance public safety. Ideal candidates will have a keen sense of emotional intelligence and be motivated by serving others and their community. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you...your adventure awaits!
Essential Job Tasks:
- Conducts security walks and head counts which involve standing stair climbing and walking for long periods of time.
- Performs facility and inmate cell searches which involve stooping kneeling crouching lying down and crawling under bunks lifting and climbing to reach all areas of the cell and facility including climbing ladders/stairs to reach overhead skylights attic crawl spaces rooftops etc.
- Performs searches of inmates and visitors which includes touching and feeling clothing to detect weapons and contraband; also includes the ability to squat stoop stretch and bend to floor level to search pant legs socks and shoes.
- Performs frisk and strip searches of inmates which includes visually observing unclothed inmates to detect weapons and contraband.
- Conducts continual visual surveillance of inmates and various areas of detention facilities which involves prolonged sitting twisting and bending to view various monitors.
- Provides inmate services such as recreation (spending several hours exposed to outdoor elements) serving meals visitation and clothing exchanges which involve lifting food trays beverage containers canteen bags and bundles of laundry weighing up to 80 lbs. and requires bending stooping and kneeling.
- Quickly selects and correctly operates appropriate buttons touch screen control monitors switches and knobs used to control doors sliders and communication systems while maintaining emotional control under extreme stress.
- Pursues fleeing inmates on foot which involves running climbing jumping bending stooping and crawling over a prolonged distance.
- Monitors and controls all activities regarding inmate movement which could include escorting/walking inmates for long distances to various locations within or outside of the jail facility.
- Uses body force ranging from mild to extreme to gain entrance through barriers to gain entrance through barriers to seize or rescue inmates.
- Subdues or restrains resisting inmates using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics or approved nonlethal weapons which may include kneeling bending or stooping as well as lifting the inmate following restraint.
- Responds quickly to emergency situations that may include physically restraining combative inmates lifting and carrying inmates during a medical crisis; escorting inmates up and down stairs to evacuate areas while wearing emergency equipment; or putting on an air pack for a fire emergency to enter smokefilled areas appropriately by stooping or crawling select and open fire extinguishers/hoses and physically removing inmates from danger which may include dragging unconscious victims (averaging 180 pounds).
- Performs basic first aid procedures and cardiopulmonary resuscitation which involves kneeling and bending.
- Gathers information for investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of the victims witnesses suspects and confidential informants.
- Appropriately utilizes technology to prepare electronic Operations Journal Entries (log book) or when necessary hand write information to produce legible reports using standard grammar punctuation symbols and simple mathematical functions.
- Inspect and inventory security equipment through testing which includes pressing buttons turning switches and lifting/turning equipment.
- Operates telephones electronic equipment fingerprint equipment ADP time recorders/clocks cameras video recording devices scanners copiers and fax machines which involve turning electronic knobs and typing for computer/data entry.
- Communicates effectively over radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications often under adverse conditions.
- Communicates verbally and effectively in areas with the potential of high noise levels by listening and providing information direction and commands to inmates and/or the general public to manage interpersonal conflict and maintain order.
- Exercises independent judgment within legal guidelines which involves reading and comprehending rules regulations policies and procedures for the purpose of ensuring appropriate officer behavior/response involving the general public.
- Subdues resisting inmates using approved nonlethal weapons i.e. pepper spray (chemical discharge containing Oleo resin capsicum) and conducted electrical weapon (short duration exposure containing 50000 volts and up to .004 amps).
- Manually unlocks and opens 8' X 12' metal gates to allow vehicles to enter the jail grounds.
- Ability to work any shift due to detention facilities operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week with regular days off generally being any two consecutive days during the week.
- Performs perimeter checks in a vehicle and/or on foot.
- Provides courtroom security and documents judicial information i.e. bond information sentence and release information.
- Inventories inmate belongings such as clothing and personal property for transport to other facilities which involves standing for long periods of time lifting and climbing a ladder while carrying semiheavy bags of clothing.
- Ensures legal documentation pertinent to an arrest/release is complete and provided to the appropriate departments/divisions/units i.e. court court desk facility which involves proofreading standing for long periods of time and communication with outside agencies including police and probation departments.
- Uses a computerized cash accounting system to maintain an accurate account of inmates' funds; may be required to open or close an account which involves sitting for extended periods of time and having the ability to use the computer and other electronic equipment.
- Be present at work site to perform assigned tasks at the times and dates scheduled/assigned by the supervisor.
Requirements:
- Must be an effective communicator even in the most challenging of situations.
- Must care about the safety and wellbeing of others both within and outside a jail setting.
- Respect all individuals regardless of background or socioeconomic status.
- Embrace the concepts of integrity accountability and transparency as core values.
- Collaborate with team members supervisors and managers to forward the mission and vision of our client.
Minimum Education/ Experience:
- High school diploma or GED or are expected to graduate/receive GED within the next 90 days.
- Must be eighteen 18 years of age.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or be eligible to work in the U.S.
Specialized training certifications and/or other special requirements:
- Applicants must possess or have the ability to obtain by the time of hire a valid Arizona driver's license.
- Prior to hiring the Sheriff's Office requires that all applicants complete the following: background investigation; polygraph exam; medical exam with attestation of physical readiness and psychological exam.
- Training to be provided onthejob: FEMA NIMS – IS100 AND 700 safety payroll and PREA.
- Additionally posthire participation in a 12week paid detention academy is required which includes successfully demonstrating physical readiness by completing a series of assessments with the requisite results in order to graduate from the academy and remain employed. A sevenbattery assessment became effective on November 1 2015.
Minimum physical readiness standards (If you have any questions about your health or your ability to participate in the assessments it is your responsibility to consult with your healthcare provider prior to application):
Assessment 1: Maximum PushUps
What is measured by the Assessment: Upper Body Muscular Endurance
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): Eleven 11
Assessment 2: Maximum SitUps (Under One Minute)
What is measured by the Assessment: Abdominal Muscular Endurance
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): Sixteen 16
Assessment 3: 1.5 Mile Run
What is measured by the Assessment: Aerobic Power
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 21:48 Minutes
Assessment 4: 300 Meter Run
What is measured by the Assessment: Anaerobic Power
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 1:37 Minutes 97 Seconds)
Assessment 5: One 1 Repetition Bench Press
What is measured by the Assessment: Upper Body Absolute Strength
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 90 Pounds or 53 of Body Weight whichever is less.
Assessment 6: Illinois Agility Run (consists of sprints through and around cones)
What is measured by the Assessment: Agility and Coordination
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): 22.6 Seconds
Assessment 7: Vertical Jump
What is measured by the Assessment: Explosive Leg Strength
Standard for Academy Graduation (Minimum Requirement): Eleven 11 inches (Fourteen 14 inches if measured with VERTEC)
Preferred education and/or experience:
- Three 3 years of work experience prior law enforcement experience and/or prior military experience preferred.
Preferred training certifications and/or other special requirements:
- Currently possess or could obtain a commercial driver's license and/or weapons certification equivalent to standards set by Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training (AZPOST).
"We are GTN – The Go To Network"
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