Corrections Sergeant

Job . Agency:
Department of Corrections.

Location:

Springfield, SD. Salary: $26.00 to $30.00, depending on experience. Pay Grade: H. Closing Date:
Open Until Filled.

This is a Full-Time 40 Hours Weekly position with the Department of Corrections. For more information on the Department of Corrections, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). View DOC Recruitment video here:

Maintains daily contact with offenders, to assist them with their day-to-day living in a correctional facility and to organize their activities while providing motivation and guidance; facilitates scheduling and program options in order that they may receive opportunities to learn how to change their criminal behavior.

• Department of Correction’s Inmate Living Guide, classification system and unit plan;
• Department of Correction’s policies and the institution’s operations and procedures;
• modern concepts, principles, and practices related to the re-entry of an offender back into society;
• attitude, problems, and behavior of incarcerated individuals;
• programs available for rehabilitation of offenders.

• communicate and document logically, accurately, and concisely all pertinent information and decisions;
• make proper responses to safety and security problems;
• relate to and establish rapport with offenders and to assist them in their initial adaptation to prison life;
• plan, organize, schedule, and direct the work of others;
• apply department policies and institution operations and procedures for the assigned housing unit;
• maintain composure under stressful conditions or tense situations and de‑escalate the situation(s).

• Organizes the schedules, coordinates the activities, and manages events for an assigned housing unit to ensure smooth operation.
• Assists offenders with individual and family problems, scheduling and institutional adjustment to help them to understand and change their behavior.
• Coordinates and manages unit offender programs to ensure compliance with department policies and institutional operations.
• Provides work direction to Correctional Officers on the unit and performs security operations to ensure staff and offender safety and unit security.
• Conducts unit orientation and offender interviews and completes documentation used to determine cell/room assignment, and the priority for scheduling follow‑on meetings with offenders.
• Serves as a member of the unit Job Boards providing input on classifications, housing and program assignments, work assignments, and program goals to ensure offender needs are met.
• Represents offenders convicted of rule infractions at disciplinary hearings to provide for the security of the unit, the safety of the staff and offenders, and the rehabilitation of the offenders.
• Performs the delegated Corrections Unit Manager duties in their absence.
• Performs other work as assigned.

• Hard to serve needs clients include individuals with multiple barriers to employment, lack of educational or occupational skills attainment, low-income workers earning wages below self-sufficiency, low levels of literacy or English proficiency, disability status, basic skills deficient, homelessness, ex-offenders and justice involved, and public assistance dependency.
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• Corrections‑related experience is defined as experience in which the employee provided a direct service to/with clients detained against their will such as custody/control, teaching, social work, nursing, food service, and general maintenance; or supervised offenders in the implementation of a program such as correctional industries. This experience is not typically earned in clerical support programs.
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NOTE:

Entry level officers and clerical support experience does not have the authority outlined in the minimum qualifications to perform components of offender management as it relates to classification hearings, Multi‑disciplinary staffing, vetting responses to offender grievances etc. Therefore, experience as an entry level officer and clerical support does not meet the definition of offender management as outlined in the minimum qualifications.

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A combination of…