CORRECTIONS OFFICER(Job Id 53290)

About the role

The State of New Hampshire, Department of Corrections, Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility has multiple vacancies for Corrections Officers, in Berlin, NH. To perform work as a Corrections Officer in accordance with established rules, regulations, post orders, and specific instructions; receives general administrative direction. To maintain professional and personal integrity, ethics, and a positive community standing in and outside the work environment; establishes a correctional environment supportive of rehabilitative activities and access to healthcare services reflective of reducing the risks of recidivism. This position works as an armed post.

Responsibilities

• Maintains security in buildings, towers, and other posts of an adult correctional facility, intervenes during emergencies or altercations, and gains physical control of offenders.
• Supervises, escorts, and/or transports the movement of offenders inside and outside the correctional facility, conducts periodic counts, and searches offenders and their living quarters for contraband.
• Supervises housing units and offenders during work, recreational, and religious activities; conducts health and safety hazards inspections.
• Performs random and specific searches of residents and visitors to prevent the introduction of contraband into the facility.
• Searches housing, buildings, physical plants, supply areas, and personal property for weapons and contraband by following institutional procedures and guidelines.
• Conducts interviews and obtains the statements of victims, witnesses, suspects, and other involved parties during incidents.
• Prepares appropriate tracking, reports, and documentation pertaining to occurrences, actions, and incidents detailing concerns or violations for use in disciplinary and mitigation proceedings.
• Discusses issues and minor adjustment problems with offenders and refers more severe concerns to superiors or proper correctional facility staff.
• Promotes rehabilitation by modifying the offender's social attitudes, discouraging undesirable behaviors, and encouraging worthwhile activities utilizing effective verbal communication skills to direct, mentor, and de-escalate encounters while performing their daily duties.
• Detains offenders, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints; subdues resisting offenders using maneuvers, approved non-lethal and lethal, if necessary, within the scope outlined in NH RSA 627; Justification Utilizes weapons (non-lethal and lethal), and hands and feet in self-defense to establish safe control for the safety of.

Requirements

• Education: High school diploma or high school equivalency credential.
• Experience: Six months of experience as a Corrections Officer or its equivalent in the areas of law enforcement, police work, or the military.
• License/Certification: Possession of a valid driver's license.
• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age.
• Ability to use firearms and to demonstrate proficiency by passing weapons qualifications on an annual basis.
• Selected candidates will be required to participate and complete training at the Corrections Academy as scheduled, and must obtain certification as a Corrections Officer, issued by the Police Standards and Training Council during their probationary period.
• Successfully participate in the physical agility test designed to measure one's ability to perform essential job functions which are physically demanding tasks encountered in job performance.
• After conditional offers of appointment have been made, prospective appointees must pass a comprehensive medical examination provided at the state's expense. The Provider administering medical examinations will be selected by the NH Department of Corrections.
• Trainee Option: Candidates with an equivalent combination of a high school diploma, and no previous experience may be considered and hired in trainee status for this position.
• Each additional year of approved formal education may be substituted for one year of required work experience and/or each additional year of approved work experience may be substituted for one year of required formal education.

Pay

• Salary range: $28.37/hour – $34.74/hour.
• Trainee status pay rate: $25.17 per hour.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus: $10,000.
• Hazardous Duty Pay: $60 biweekly (not included in the salary above).