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State of Nevada (NV)
CORRECTIONAL ASSISTANT - ELY
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What they do
A Correctional Officer, Detention Officer, or Jailer supervises people being held in correctional facilities, including those awaiting trial, in detention, and inmates who are serving sentences. Maintains order and security within a jail or prison, conducts inspections and searches, enforces regulations, and supervises activities and visits.
$62,376 / year median in Nevada
+7% projected growth
Job Description
The Nevada Department of Corrections is seeking to fill a Correctional Assistant at Ely State Prison. These assignments could also include assisting in non- custodial areas of the institution, including Maintenance, Culinary or Warehouse. All posts will involve working around inmates. Positions allocated to the class are trained and oriented to the field of Corrections with the hopeful progression to correctional officer positions in the future. Correctional assistants do not respond to emergency situations, riots, and/or altercations involving inmates, do not supervise inmates, and do not perform security functions such as inmate movement or escort. Correctional Assistants work to ensure the health and safety of staff and inmates; assist custody staff in duties required in inmate housing areas; feed inmates in a timely manner; maintain sanitary and orderly living conditions; supervise and deliver inmate mail and correspondence; conduct formal and informal inmate population counts; and assist in the unit officers and Case Work staff as needed. Correctional Assistants primarily are posted to 8 hours 5 days a week with varying days off. Under immediate supervision and direction of a P.O.S.T. certified Category 3 custody officer, Correctional Assistants perform a variety of entry level assignments which do not require P.O.S.T. certification. Positions allocated to this class are trained and oriented to the field of Corrections, but do not respond to emergency situations, riots, and/or altercations involving inmates, do not supervise inmates, and do not perform security functions such as inmate movement or escort.
High school graduation or equivalent education and one year of work experience.
Assist custody staff in performing the duties required in carrying out the purpose and function of the work unit as mail room officer or visiting room officer, or work in the law library, chapel, laundry, culinary, and other non-housing area as assigned. Perform institutional counts and monitoring duties of offenders as assigned; provide security unit and safety checks and document activities in various logs and reports. In a maximum security institution, may provide floor duties in a housing unit such as meal and mail delivery, mopping and general custodial functions. Perform related duties as assigned.
High school graduation or equivalent education and one year of work experience.
Assist custody staff in performing the duties required in carrying out the purpose and function of the work unit as mail room officer or visiting room officer, or work in the law library, chapel, laundry, culinary, and other non-housing area as assigned. Perform institutional counts and monitoring duties of offenders as assigned; provide security unit and safety checks and document activities in various logs and reports. In a maximum security institution, may provide floor duties in a housing unit such as meal and mail delivery, mopping and general custodial functions. Perform related duties as assigned.