Deputy Probation Officer I​/II

Overview

Under immediate (Deputy Probation Officer I) or general (Deputy Probation Officer II) supervision, performs a wide variety of probation officer duties; conducts investigations; prepares reports and recommendations to the court related to sentencing of adult offenders and disposition of juvenile offenders; supervises a caseload of adult and/or juvenile offenders; provides counseling and guidance while enforcing the conditions of supervision; assists in coordinating programs;

and performs related work as required.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

Positions at the Deputy Probation Officer I level may perform some of these duties in a learning capacity.

• Performs case management services while ensuring adherence to conditions of supervision; facilitates rehabilitation by supervising, counseling, and monitoring adult and juvenile offenders under supervision; provides assessment referrals to appropriate programs for adults and juveniles; facilitates out-of-home placement/reunification services for juvenile offenders placed in out-of-home care; acts as a liaison between supervised people and their, families, and other individuals.
• Conducts investigations and field searches using accepted data collection methods to establish facts and draw valid conclusions; analyzes data including, but not limited to medical, social history, legal, and financial reports, as well as other documents.
• Prepares various court and case reports; provides court with a sentencing recommendation; prepares orders granting supervision.
• Interviews defendants, families, and other individuals to identify and evaluate various problems, to determine how each case is to be treated, to evaluate candidacy for supervision, custody, and guardianship, and to assess progress of each case; develops and implements case plans based on individual’s history and issues.
• Reviews, interprets, and applies a variety of laws and codes in developing recommendations for courts on appropriate case disposition and sentencing.
• Completes and files adult and juvenile violations of supervision.
• Makes presentations and/or testifies in court and other hearings regarding sentencing recommendations, supervision violations and termination, case disposition, and case related issues.
• Requests evaluations, refers, coordinates, and monitors participation in mental health, medical, substance abuse, community service, and related treatment and rehabilitation programs.
• Intervenes in crisis situations, counsels individuals and families, and makes referrals.
• Works closely with schools, treatment providers, community agencies, law enforcement, District Attorney and staff, client attorneys, other legal representation, and others during the course of supervision.
• Prepares and maintains a variety of reports, files, legal documents, correspondence, and records.
• Responds and triages after-hour emergencies involving adult and juvenile offenders.
• Transports detained juvenile offenders to the juvenile detention center and court hearings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Positions at the Deputy Probation Officer I level may exercise some of the knowledge and skill statements in a learning capacity.

• Functions, policies and procedures of the Probation Department and social service, legal and law enforcement departments.
• Authorities vested within the Probation Department.
• Principles and techniques of interviewing and investigation.
• Basic principles of applied psychology and/or sociology.
• Principles and practices of adult and juvenile probation work, including casework objectives and methods.
• General community resources necessary to assist in crime and delinquency control.
• Principles and practices of case planning and management including intervention and diversion programs and therapies.
• Methods and techniques of observing physical manifestation of chemical dependency.
• Court procedures and operations including rules of evidence.
• Arrest search and seizure laws and procedures.
• Methods…