Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!  

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.  

What it is like to work here:  

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community.  To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.  

Surround yourself with:  

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live, work, and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community.  Community is more than a place….it,s our heart and service that bring us together.  

We encourage a work life balance:  

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck.  A career with Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks.  We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year.    

For Benefits information click HERE  

JOB SUMMARY

Works with prisoners by recruiting, screening, and tracking prisoner participation in Jail Programs such as SHED/SPLD (electronic monitoring), JIVE, Life Skills, etc. Performs background checks; tracks class hours and work release time; teaches prisoner classes; tracks progress and graduation statistics for programs; may assist tracking prisoners on the run using GPS and radio signal tracking, or qualify and track the approximately 2100 prisoners as well as about 450 paid and unpaid instructors who work in Jail Programs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

Two (2) years of full-time experience working in a Jail or Youth Services secure correctional environment, of which one (1) year must have been as a Corrections Specialist, Youth Services Worker, Correctional Officer, Police Officer or equivalent.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required pre-employment background check.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The following duties and responsibilities are intended to be representative of the work performed by the incumbent(s) in this position and are not all-inclusive. The omission of specific duties and responsibilities will not preclude it from the position.

Applicants must be prepared to demonstrate the ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Audits prisoners classifications and records for possible qualification into available programs; recruits prisoners from minimum and medium units, may assist prisoners in completing forms; screens and scores applications, runs criminal backgrounds for warrants, gang affiliations, ensures medical clearance for trustee programs, etc.; communicates with prisoners about program acceptance or denial and program rules.
• Coordinates prisoner court dates while in programs, requests and receives court documents, and promise to appear documents; collaborates with drug courts, court officials and judges. Provides legal packets for prisoners to file pro se actions.
• Tracks doctor's visits, Court dates, bail amounts, release dates, and late or no show to classes or work details, and provides information to Classification, LDA, Court Liaison, Drug Court, and AP&P; collaborates with Work Force Services, Daily Reporting Center, Day Labor and Temporary Recruiters, etc. Tracks class attendance, work release hours, full-time employment, home confinement, work details, etc, for tracking of "good time" hours for possible early release, and graduation from programs.
• Generates random drug screen documents; logs and reports on prisoner activities; types prisoner packets; prepares daily and monthly statistics; prepares work schedules for prisoner details, prisoner contract forms, orientation packets and approval letters; communicates non-qualification for program to prisoners; tracks volunteer hours for quarterly reporting and trustee lists for in-house and kitchen workers; responds to kites and prisoner grievances.
• Tracks EEO statistics of program participation and how many are revoked and the reason for revocation; updates status on OMS and notifies Classification of any changes or tiered workers; audit records to correct "good time" credit for tiered workers. Audits if due process rights were followed for tiered workers; if an Officer did not follow correct procedures, authorizes return of prisoner to trustee status.
• Coordinates with agencies and departments requesting prisoner labor details; provides SHED Officers daily schedules, prisoner appointments, and work sheets. Tracks inventory and equipment assigned to prisoners; maintains inventory repair records and restocking needs.
• Coordinates with Classification Clerks to achieve prisoner movement from units to JIVE programs at Oxbow Jail. Work with JIVE prisoners at the Farmers Markets during the summer months.
• Responds to calls from families and information on tip lines about escapees; works with Officers tracking prisoners on the run to provide up-to-the-minute location information from tracking software programs or family members calling in to disclose information.
• Works with volunteer instructors to review class proposals and program descriptions; provides instructor orientation and facility security training; prepares program descriptions to publish for prisoners; compiles training manuals; places screened applicants on referral lists; send notifications; prepares and updates roll sheets, tracks volunteer hours for annual recognition, prepares volunteer recognition articles for newsletters.
• Provides training to prisoners by drafting course curriculums, teaching classes in life skills and high liability areas such as Prisoner Rape Elimination Act (PREA) and Harassment Prevention.