Community Correctional Officer

at State of Vermont in White River Junction, Vermont, United States

Job Description

Community Correctional Officers perform risk control or risk management contacts on offenders in the community. Duties may involve face-to-face contacts, telephone check, or collateral contacts with the offender's employer, family members, teachers, landlords, vocational counselors, and service providers. Duties involve application of external controls on an offender in order to prevent and deter anti-social and criminogenic behavior. The contact may include reviewing the use of alco-sensors, electronic monitoring equipment, urinalysis testing, and surveillance.

You will assist an offender in the development of personal internal controls through review of an offender's relapse plan, thinking reports, or journal, as well as participation in a treatment group. Conducts collateral contracts with family members and others. In collaboration with the team, evaluates an offender's performance in relation to stages of change to determine contact standards. Provides Probation and Parole Officers and supervision team with input from field contacts for case plan development or modification. Provides perspective from field contacts to the supervision team and the assigned offender for Case Planning conferences (CPC).

You may take emergency actions with local law enforcement agencies, up to and including re-incarceration, subject to review of the supervisor. May monitor the performance of offenders assigned to a correctional facility. Performs resident investigations in compliance with the Intermediate Sanctions Report (ISR) or pre-release from incarceration to assess supportive living environment. Prepares written reports such as affidavits, incident reports, running records, and furloughs on assigned offenders' caseloads. May be required to testify in court or at parole board hearings. Involved in the transport of offenders in state vehicles. Performs related duties as required.

This position will be housed out of the White River Junction Probation and Parole office.

Duties are performed in the homes, places of employment, and other locations frequented by assigned inmates as well as in a standard office setting. Duties include working closely with local police departments in arrest situations or in the performance of field supervision check. High stress situations are predictable, even frequent. The potential of physical assault or injury is present. A valid motor vehicle operator's license is required. Overtime and emergency duty are predictable. Shift assignments may change in accordance with the needs of the office, including any of three shifts and weekend assignments as well potentially working within a correctional facility.