Jail Clerk- Sheriffs Office
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$ 35240 - 52861
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Job Description
Job Description
$35240.00$52861.00
$1 per hour worked in environmental pay
*All jobrelated experience must be included on the resume portion for it to be considered in the salary offer.
Salt Lake CountyA career with a purpose in the community you love!
Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community please keep reading.
What it is like to work here:
At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees lives from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment we appreciate employees through great benefits a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.
Surround yourself with:
Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place.its our heart and service that bring us together.
We encourage a work life balance:
Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays up to 24 vacation days 12 sick days and one personal day every year.
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JOB SUMMARY
Provides prisoner services such as scheduling receiving and checking in visitors. Provides telephone services screens prisoner mail and directly delivers commissary merchandise to prisoners.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
One 1 year of clerical or administrative support experience.
Must be a United States citizen 18 years of age or older.
Due to the nature of this position the successful applicant must pass a required preemployment background check.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The following duties and responsibilities are intended to be representative of the work performed by the incumbent(s) in this position and are not allinclusive. The omission of specific duties and responsibilities will not preclude it from the position.
Applicants must be prepared to demonstrate the ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
- Preschedules prisoner visits verifies and records visitor information answers questions on Jail policies booking charges bail amount and length of incarceration. Schedules bookandreleases.
- Answers and routes calls to employees; assists attorneys judges and bail bondsmen with callin questions; assists callers who receive threatening calls from inside the Jail; and receives calls on serious injury illness or death notifications. Directs incoming calls to specific departments and answers civilian questions and concerns with regard to all departments within the Jail.
- Checks in visitors; provides orientation; coordinates professional walkin visits from legal advisors clergy members and healthcare providers.
- Monitors multiple movement and waiting area cameras; directs visitors to correct area; facilitates movement to and from visitation areas.
- Runs warrants and record checks on visitors using BCI III and Offender Management System.
- Screen incoming and outgoing prisoner mail email magazines newspapers and books for irregularities or violations; monitors for contraband and biohazard material. Monitors protective orders and unauthorized prisonertoprisoner communications. Monitors for criminal activity within incoming letters. Documents prisoner behavior for disciplinary purposes. Processes incoming items and documents into prisoner property.
- Obtains prisoner signatures and performs notary services; receives funds through the mail prepares deposits updates prisoner accounts on OMS.
- Picks up and delivers interoffice mail prisoner kites and grievances.
- Processes outgoing mail and returns insufficient postage mail to prisoners.
- Accepts delivery of prepackaged commissary from contracted provider; maintains inventory; distributes merchandise to prisoners; completes daily and monthly financial/inventory records; delivers welfare items weekly.
- Updates OMS and commissary tracking systems; receives and sends information from other agencies and jurisdictions via telephone email or correspondence.
- Assists in training new employees.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)
Knowledge of:
- General office procedures and standard administrative duties
- Professional telephone etiquette
- General office equipment
- Computer operations and techniques
- Filing methods and techniques
- Customer service concepts and principles
- Applicable laws rules regulations and/or policies and procedures
Skills and Abilities to:
- Pass a data entry skills test
- Operate standard office equipment
- Follow verbal and written procedures and instructions
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Sits for long periods of time; lifts items up to 20 lbs. and place on cart or shelf up to four feet from floor.
This position works in the Salt Lake County Jail which is a locked down facility has direct contact with prisoners and may be exposed to stress as a result of human behavior in a jail environment.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POSITION
Works rotating shifts and assignments weekends and holidays and is subject to callout 24 hours a day.
Revised Date/HR Business Partners Initials: 02/02/2024 SR
Due to the nature of this position the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.
Employment Type
Full-Time
