Disease Intervention Specialist

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Affords assistance to the detention staff to ensure the smooth operation of the City's detention facility within the Municipal Court. Assists in obtaining, entering, and extracting detainee data from a computer database; conducts questioning of detainees; observes detainee behavior; operates the detention facility's system control panel; maintains the detention facility's computerized book-in system; monitors video equipment of all jail areas; processes records and legal documents to facilitate information access; and performs additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience: At least 1 year corrections/law enforcement experience. P.O.S.T certified may be accepted in lieu of experience.
• Licenses, Equipment or Certificates Required: First Aid, CPR, and NCIC/CCIC certifications required within 6 months of employment.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills

• Knowledge of standard clerical/administrative practices.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees and citizens.
• Handle sensitive or difficult situations with tact and diplomacy.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Operate various types of office equipment.
• Perform difficult or unpleasant housekeeping tasks.
• Skill in the operation of a personal computer and related software.
• Keyboarding skills.

Working Conditions

• Physical Demands: May perform moderate to heavy physical work requiring ability to lift a maximum of 50 pounds; occasionally lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 25 pounds; considerable sitting to operate a control panel and enter data into a personal computer; occasional pushing, pulling, bending, and twisting requiring full range of body movement; frequent hand/eye coordination to operate control panel and other equipment as well as assisting in controlling prisoners; speech communication, hearing, and listening to maintain communication with other employees and prisoners; vision to monitor controls, video equipment, and prisoner activities.
• Work Environment: Works indoors in a detention/jail facility; some exposure to noise and dust; regular exposure to prisoners, some combative.
• Shift work to include rotating shifts, working weekends and holidays.

Equipment Used

• Operates a personal computer.
• Kitchen and laundry equipment and control panels.

Benefits

• Holidays: The city provides the following 10 paid holidays to all regular and introductory employees.
• Leave Benefits: Personal Leave, Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Emergency Leave, Military Leave, Retirement Plans, Deferred Compensation, Long Term Disability.

Required Questions

• Do you have at least 1 year of corrections/law enforcement experience?
• Please describe your experience in security/corrections, including dates of employment, name of employer, title and contact information.
• Are you P.O.S.T certified?
• This position requires the ability to work shift, holidays and weekends including days, swings and graveyard shifts. Employees with the least amount of seniority are more likely to be required to work swings or graveyard shifts. Do you have the ability to work holidays, weekends, days, swings and/or graveyard shifts?
• Are you still interested in competing for this position?
• The starting wage for this position will be up to $14.04 per hour. Are you still interested in competing for this position?