PROMOTIONAL - Corrections Captain

About the role

The purpose of this position is to manage and organize the shift activities and operations of a correctional facility or an assigned area on a 24-hour basis. This class works under administrative supervision, developing and implementing programs within organizational policies and reporting major activities to executive level administrators through conferences and reports.

Responsibilities

• Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
• Captivates, assigns, and reviews work and establishes work schedules; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
• Evaluates policies, procedures, programs and services and recommends modifications.
• Manages shift operations of a correctional facility including inmate custody and security, booking, property, inmate classification, sobriety evaluation, internal investigation, work release and support services through subordinate supervisors.
• Administers additional programs including fingerprint identification, records or home incarceration through subordinate supervisors.
• Captivates shift activities and operations, emergency conditions, significant occurrences, and inmate disturbances with administrative staff and subordinate supervisors.
• Inspires inspections of inmate living quarters to evaluate sanitary conditions, monitors the operation of correctional facility fire and security equipment, and notifies equipment maintenance vendors to correct malfunctions or to request equipment service or repair.
• Authorizes the transportation of inmates from the jail facility to the hospital for medical treatment and examination, and to and from other correctional facilities.
• Develops training materials and conducts training sessions and lectures on approved curriculum and conducts tours of the facility and speaks at schools and community group meetings to convey information on correctional programs and operations.
• Answers questions, provides information, explains and discusses incarceration, work release and visitation procedures and operations with other law enforcement agencies, the media and the public.
• Plans, develops and implements programs, policies and procedures in conjunction with administrative staff.
• Controls expenditures in accordance with budget allocations and assists with budget preparation in conjunction with administrative staff.
• Presents reports on department activities and operations for administrative staff review and completes special projects.
• Answers questions from the public and the media.
• Conducts tours; presents information at schools and community meetings.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Graduation or GED equivalent.
• Must be a current Louisville Metro Department of Corrections (LMDC) Lieutenant with two (2) years of continuous seniority in that position.
• Must be eligible for certification as a State Peace Officer.
• Must possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license with an acceptable driving history.
• Must be vaccinated for hepatitis B, have provided evidence of immunity, or have signed a declination form within ten days of initial assignment.
• Must pass an annual tuberculin test.
• Must complete forty (40) hours of annual in-service training.
• Must be on 24-hour call.
• Must not be a current user of illegal drugs.

Qualifications

• Must be certified as a LINK/NCIC Basic Operator (Full Access) in the State of Kentucky or obtain within six months of employment.
• Must meet qualifications pursuant to the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, 28 CFR 115.17 and 115.317, to include periodic post-employment criminal background checks.
• Must not have ever engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1997).
• Must not have ever been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community, facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse.
• Must not have ever been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in the previous question.

Skills

None specified.

Benefits

• Full Time Regular Medical Dental Vision Group Term Life Supplemental Life Accidental Death & Dismemberment Sick Leave Vacation Holiday Pay Bereavement Leave

Pay

Union Regulated Salary Grade: U19-002

Schedule

May be required to work nights, weekends, holidays and emergencies (man-made or natural) to meet the business needs of Louisville Metro Government.