Correctional Officer 1

The Edventure Group; United States; On-site; USD 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retention incentive $2,000

Job summary

The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is seeking Correctional Officers to enforce rules, monitor offenders, and maintain public safety across multiple facilities in the state. Training includes counts, transport, and search procedures, with opportunities to advance within the agency.

Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent and may be subject to medical and psychological evaluations, background checks, and drug testing as part of the employment process.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a standard high school or the equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Observe and monitor offenders to detect unusual or prohibited behavior and maintain custody and control.
• Escort offenders to and from various facility areas and learn to search persons and belongings.
• Conduct counts to ensure offender accountability and safety.
• Assist with intake/discharge procedures and transport offenders as needed.
• Enforce rules and state law to maintain public safety and order.

Skills

Correctional security

State laws

Offender counts

Restraints handling

Vehicle operation

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Nature of Work

Special Hiring Rate:

$47,900.32 upon hire and $50,400.272 after 6 months – Critical Vacancy Pay Facilities: Huttonsville Correctional Center and Jail, Mount Olive Correctional Complex and Jail, Western Regional Jail and Corrections Facility, Northern Correctional Facility (including Ohio County Correctional Center), Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, Chick Buckbee Juvenile Center, Vicki Douglas Juvenile Center, Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, and Eastern Regional Jail and Corrections Facility (including Martinsburg Correctional Center)

$42,900.208 upon hire and $45,400.16 after 6 months – Remainder of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities

Correctional Officers enforce rules necessary for the control of offenders and the maintenance of public safety. Positions may be in any type of facilities such as: Adult Centers/Prisons, Regional Jails, or Juvenile Centers. Applications for Correctional Officer 1 are accepted continuously to build a list of eligible candidates. The list will be used to fill openings as they occur. Contact the individual Centers for specific vacancy information.

IMPORTANT: Applicants who qualify for Correctional Officer 2-6 must apply for those titles separately.

ATTENTION: Applicant must verify post high school education by submitting an official transcript or diploma, training or licensure earned pertaining to this position by the closing date of the posting, if not previously verified. If you are claiming Veterans preference, please submit “MEMBER 4” form and/or your VA Letter. Protecting your personal information is our highest priority. If your official transcript, training/licensure, or Veterans documentation contains your Social Security Number and/or birthdate, please redact that information before submitting it to the Division of Personnel.

Examples of Work

• Learns to implement training materials, post orders, administrative regulations, log entries and/or memoranda.
• Learns to obtain information from previous shift regarding activities occurring on that shift.
• Learns to observe and monitor offenders to detect unusual or prohibited behavior and maintains custody and control within the correctional facility.
• Learns to perform counts at regular, or other, intervals to insure offender accountability.
• Escorts offenders to and from various facility areas; learns to search persons, personal property and areas.
• Learns to supervise offenders in performing assigned tasks.
• Learns to conduct and assists with intake/discharge procedures for offenders.
• Maintains public safety and control of offenders by enforcing rules, regulations and state law; reports violations.
• Testifies at internal disciplinary hearings and in court.
• Learns to transport offenders to and from correctional facilities.
• Learns to listen and respond appropriately to offender requests, problems and complaints.
• Learns to model appropriate personal and social living skills when interacting with offenders.
• Learns to recognize and respond to potential or actual emergencies, such as, but not limited to, fires, physical altercations, disturbances, or escapes in a manner that is consistent with policy, procedure and state law and ensures public safety.
• Participates in staff, team and committee meetings.
• Handles and operates security/communications equipment and/or firearms as directed and in a manner that is consistent with policy, procedure and state law and ensures public safety.
• Learns to inspect, inventory, maintain physical control of, and log keys, tools, weapons and related equipment.
• Learns to report damaged or missing items or other noted irregularities.
• Learns to performs safety and sanitation inspections.
• Oversees cleaning of facility areas and inmate hygiene activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of correctional security, treatment and support program operations.
• Knowledge of rules, regulations and state law.
• Ability to read and understand training materials, policies, procedures and related written material.
• Ability to follow verbal instructions and written directives and to follow a formal chain of command.
• Ability to enforce rules, regulations and state law.
• Ability to provide an accurate count of offenders.
• Ability to safely handle and use mechanical restraints, intermediate weapons and firearms and be certified as required.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
• Ability to run, jump, climb stairs and physically restrain violent offenders.
• Ability to plan, organize and direct offender activities and work details.
• Ability to resolve offender problems and conflicts and to handle requests.

Minimum Qualifications

Training: Graduation from a standard high school or the equivalent.

Conditions of Employment:

• Applicants must successfully complete a psychological examination prior to appointment and as required thereafter.
• Applicants must successfully complete a medical examination prior to appointment and as required thereafter.
• Applicants must successfully complete a physical performance test prior to appointment and annually thereafter.
• Applicants must successfully complete a chemical urinalysis drug-screening test prior to initial employment.
• All employees in this job class shall be subject to random drug testing, as well as drug testing for reasonable suspicion as set forth in agency policy.
• Applicant’s character and suitability for employment as a Correctional Officer must be verified through an agency investigation prior to employment.
• Applicant’s background must be clear of felony convictions.
• Applicant’s background must be clear of any activity prohibited by the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
• Applicants are subject to recurring background checks as may be required by law, rule, standard, or policy.
• Applicants will be required to work various shifts and it is understood schedules are subject to change at any time.
• Applicants are subject to mandatory overtime requirements and must be available for assignment to any location in the State of West Virginia.
• Applicants must possess a valid driver’s license prior to appointment and continuously maintain such license while employed in this classification.
• Applicants must maintain a working telephone in order for the agency to contact them.
• Applicants shall successfully complete training as may be required by policies established by the Commissioner, or as may be required by law, rule, or standard.
• Applicants must possess the ability to perform the essential functions and tasks of the classification.

Other Information

Additional Information:

• Upon completion of the first year of continuous service in the position, any employee hired into the rank of the Correctional Officer series shall receive a retention incentive of $2,000.
• If an employee is hired into a Critical Vacancy Pay Facility (CVPF) and leaves the facility, the additional pay differential of $5,000 shall be removed from their salary, unless transferring to another CVPF.

Probationary period 1 year

Adult Facilities

Prisons and Jails

• Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Braxton County [phone]
• Denmar Correctional Center and Jail – Pocahontas County [phone]
• Eastern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility / Martinsburg Correctional Center and Jail – Berkeley County [phone]
• Huttonsville Correctional Center and Jail/Huttonsville Work Camp – Randolph County [phone]
• Lakin Correctional Center and Jail – Mason County [phone]
• Mount Olive Correctional Complex and Jail/Slayton Work Camp – Fayette County [phone]
• North Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Doddridge County [phone]
• Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility / Ohio County Correctional Center and Jail – Marshall/Ohio [phone]
• Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Hampshire County [phone]
• Pruntytown Correctional Center and Jail – Taylor County [phone]
• Saint Mary’s Correctional Center and Jail – Pleasants County [phone]
• Salem Correctional Center and Jail – Harrison/Doddridge County [phone]
• South Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Kanawha County [phone]
• Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Raleigh County [phone]
• Southwestern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Logan County [phone]
• Stevens Correctional Cente r – McDowell County [phone]
• Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Randolph County [phone]
• Western Regional Jail and Correctional Facility – Cabell County [phone]

Community Corrections

• Anthony Correctional Center – Greenbrier County [phone]
• Beckley Correctional Center and Jail – Raleigh County [phone]
• Charleston Correctional Center and Jail – Kanawha County [phone]
• Parkersburg Correctional Center and Jail – Wood County [phone]

Juvenile Facilities and Reporting Centers

• Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center – Boone County [phone]
• Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center – Fayette County [phone]
• M. “Chick” Buckbee Juvenile Center – Hampshire County [phone]
• Kenneth “Honey” Rubenstein Juvenile Center – Tucker County [phone]
• Lorrie Yeager Jr. Juvenile Center – Wood County [phone]
• Robert L. Shell Juvenile Center – Cabell County [phone]
• Ronald C. Mulholland Juvenile Center – Ohio County [phone]
• Sam Perdue Juvenile Center – Mercer County [phone]
• James H. “Tiger” Morton Juvenile Center – Kanawha County [phone]
• Vicki V. Douglas Juvenile Center – Berkeley/Jefferson County [phone]

Youth Reporting Centers

• Boone/Logan County Youth Reporting Center – Boone County [phone] or [phone]
• Brooke/Hancock County Youth Reporting Center – Hancock County [phone]
• Cabell County Youth Reporting Center – Cabell County [phone] or [phone]
• Fayette County Youth Reporting Center – Fayette County [phone]
• Greenbrier County Youth Reporting Center – Greenbrier County [phone] or [phone]
• Harrison County Youth Reporting Center – Harrison County [phone]
• Jefferson County Youth Reporting Center – Jefferson County [phone]
• Kanawha County Youth Reporting Center – Kanawha County [phone]
• Lincoln County Youth Reporting Center – Lincoln County [phone] Ext. 4307
• Marion County Youth Reporting Center – Marion County [phone]
• Mason County Youth Reporting Center – Mason County [phone]
• Mercer County Youth Reporting Center – Mercer County [phone] or [phone]
• Monongalia County Youth Reporting Center – Monongalia County [phone]
• Pocahontas County Youth Reporting Center – Pocahontas County [phone]
• Putnam County Youth Reporting Center – Putnam County [phone]
• Raleigh County Youth Reporting Center – Raleigh County [phone]
• Randolph County Reporting Center – Randolph County [phone]
• STARS Berkeley County Youth Reporting Center – Berkeley County [phone] or [phone]
• Wetzel/Tyler County Youth Reporting Center – Wetzel County [phone]
• Wood County Youth Reporting Center – Wood County [phone]

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