at Sedgwick County in Wichita, Kansas, United States
Job Description
Leads, directs, coaches, and supervises a team of Corrections Officers on an assigned shift in a 24-hour correctional facility within the Department of Corrections.
Performance Management
- Assist in interviewing and hiring of Corrections Officer applicants; lead orientation and training of new staff.
- Establish priorities and guides staff in adherence to policies, procedures, and best practices; provide support and clarification for staff who violate policy and procedures.
- Review and evaluate employee performance, ensuring staff are trained and provide feedback in knowledge and adherence to required standards.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on facility policies and procedures and lead by example.
Facility Management
- Monitor the care and security of clients and staff and an emphasis on security, behavior change, leadership, and modeling of prosocial attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors.
- Admit clients in and out of the facility, verify client court records and status, and assist with the intake screening and orientation of new clients.
- Ensure that staff perform drug/alcohol screens on clients, as needed, to ensure that they follow program requirements
- Schedule and conduct area and room searches to ensure facility is free of contraband.
- Ensure that medication procedures are followed with accurate documentation.
- Review reports and other communications to maintain awareness of activities and ensure accuracy.
- Investigate incidents and determine consequences.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure that staff monitor client activities, enforce rules, and expectations, and room cleanliness; Ensure the completion assigned head counts to monitor and account for client whereabouts.
- Oversee the maintenance of facility supply inventories; the monitoring of client personal property when client goes AWOL or a warrant is filed and a client is removed from the program.
- Assign staff duties to conduct checks to ensure clients are at their assigned location; maintain client records identifying room location and bed number, and level client is on in the program, if applicable.
- Appraise and update client behavior information; prepare narrative and non-narrative reports regarding client behavior and status; monitor client activities.
- Communicate and document effectively through verbal and written communications, to include required reports, behavioral notes, log books, scheduled team meetings, and shift turnover to oncoming shift.
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