Detention Deputy - Entry Level

Weld County Sheriff's Office; Greeley (CO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

The Weld County Sheriff's Office is seeking a Detention Deputy to join the jail operations team. This role supports health, safety, and welfare of inmates, staff, and visitors, with emphasis on security and orderly housing units.

You will work rotating shifts, conduct counts, searches, and escorts, and participate in training opportunities and academy sponsorships to advance in law enforcement careers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety and security of inmates, staff, visitors, and the public; protect Constitutional rights and provide access to medical and dental care, legal resources, and religious activities.
• Conduct face and head counts, verify inmate identities from booking photos and rosters, and manage meals, commissary, and inmate property.
• Escort inmates between locations to facilitate required activities and supervise housing unit activities.
• Perform strip, body, cell, and area searches to maintain control and safety within the jail.
• Observe inmates for signs of self-harm, criminal misconduct, or medical issues and refer to appropriate staff.
• Direct and assist in emergency responses and tactical plans to maintain jail safety during incidents.
• Maintain logs and reports documenting inmate behavior, housing unit activity, and incidents; coordinate with deputies during shift transitions.

Job description

Compensation Range

$37.73 - $52.75

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Job Description Summary

Open Continuous

If you are interested in Law Enforcement and looking for an opportunity to start from the ground up and grow a career with Weld County Sheriff's Office, we have the beginning of an amazing career waiting for you!

Our Mission

The Weld County Jail will accept and lawfully hold prisoners in a safe, humane, wholesome environment that returns people to the community better, or no worse, than they arrived.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office offers multiple additional assignments to include:

• Detective/Investigations
• Drug Task Force
• Canine Team (K9)
• SWAT Team (Special Weapons and Tactics)
• STRIKE Team (High Impact Task Force)
• FET (Field Evidence Technician/Crime Scene Investigation)
• FTO (Field Training Officer)
• Drone Pilot
• Honor Guard
• Bomb Squad
• Courts Unit

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office sponsors up to 10 employees per year to attend a P.O.S.T. (Peace Officers Standards and Training) academy. This academy certifies our employees to advance their career in law enforcement to be a deputy sheriff or police officer on the street. Start your career in law enforcement with the best at Weld County!

A Detention Deputy relies heavily upon interpersonal communication skills, physical techniques and tactics, and writing skills to safely, effectively, and efficiently manage jail operations. Jail operations include performing activities necessary to maintain the health, safety, security, and welfare of jail staff and incarcerated individuals (inmates). All shift assignments are on a yearly bid basis and we maintain jail functions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Continuously ensures safety and security of inmates, staff, visitors, and the public; facilitates and protects the Constitutional rights of all persons, including, but not limited to; access to medical and dental care, law library, religious activities, legal representation, and due process.

Directly, and indirectly, supervises inmate activities within housing units.

Observe inmates and maintain alertness to detect, deter, or prevent self-destructive or criminal behaviors including, but not limited to; suicide, escape, assault, theft, escape, criminal mischief, extortion, ethnic intimidation and introduction of contraband.

Observe inmates to detect and refer medical conditions to professional medical personnel and facilitate medical treatment; or identify crisis counseling situations and make referrals to professional counseling staff for inmate safety and security.

Documents inmate behavior, housing unit activity, unusual conditions and/or events to maintain accurate records of inmate behavior and housing unit activity.

Conducts regular inspections, and requests repairs or maintenance to the facility or equipment, when needed.

Collects and properly distributes mail, inmate complaint forms, inmate supplies and laundry, meals and written in-house communication; and properly accepts documents, packages, money, and safely stores inmate property.

Ensures verbal and written directives, policy, and ordinances, of Weld County and the Sheriff, are consistently and uniformly applied, and that actual practices reflect these applications.

Provides basic intervention and applies conflict resolution strategies, to effectively control inmate behaviors and maintain order within the Weld County Jail.

Consistently and effectively enforces jail rules regulating inmate conduct through verbal counseling or accurate preparation of an infraction report to document a written warning, lockdown, or disciplinary request.

Works effectively in groups of peers and other employees; facilitates smooth transition of shifts through briefings, verbal, or written communication; provides support to Deputies assigned in housing units.

Works rotating shifts to meet deployment needs, which vary at times.

Conducts face and head counts, and reports results, to maintain the effective control of inmates; accurately confirms identity of inmates from booking photographs and name rosters to facilitate distribution of meals, commissary orders, and authorized inmate entry and exit from housing units.

Conducts strip, person, cell and area searches, to maintain effective control of inmates.

Escorts inmates from one location to another to provide for required inmate activities.

Executes emergency response and tactical plans, to maintain safety and security within the Weld County Jail for events including, but not limited to; hostage situations, natural disasters, f