Detention Officer

**Offering Lateral Transfer pay up to 10 years**

• Supervises and controls the custody and activities of inmates of the Butte-Silver Bow Detention Facility by enforcing facility rules and regulations, maintaining order and discipline and monitoring and controlling activities within assigned areas of the facility.
• Supervises and performs intake of prisoners to assure implementation of regulations concerning fingerprinting, mug photography, hygiene, and allocated clothing.
• Communicates and coordinates with multiple agencies, including County Attorney's Office.
• Monitors and regulates recreational, educational, hygienic, nourishment and social activities to maintain control of individual prisoners and the general inmate population.
• Supervises inmate visitations, intervening in and/or reporting abnormalities.
• Generates statistical and narrative reports.
• Performs cell checks.
• Issues basic supplies to prisoners.
• Answers phones and responds to questions regarding Detention Facility population.
• Administers medication to inmates.
• Delivers meals to inmates.
• Cleans Detention Facility cells.
• Performs related work as required.
• Performs all duties and work assignments in a safe, healthy, and environmentally sound manner. Specifically, complying with the Health & Safety Program; maintaining work areas in a safe and orderly manner; identifying and reporting unsafe conditions; reporting all accidents; wearing required personal protective equipment; and attending safety-related meetings, training sessions, fit testing, etc.
• Performs all duties and work assignments in compliance with project quality requirements.
• Acts responsibly and ethically, and in conformance with generally accepted business, occupational, and professional standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Good knowledge of detention principals, practices, equipment and terminology.
• Good knowledge of accepted Detention Facility operational methods.
• Good knowledge of policy implementation and enforcement.
• Good knowledge of Police Department functions, procedures, policies and organizations.
• Good knowledge of local, state and federal codes governing the detention and housing of inmates.
• Good knowledge of human behavior and modification techniques.
• Good knowledge of standard first aid and CPR.
• Good knowledge of universal precautions employed when handling body fluids.
• Skill in terminating fights and other physical disruptions.
• Ability to conduct searches of prisoners, personal property and buildings.
• Ability to communicate well with the Detention Commander, Assistant Detention Commander, Sergeants, other law enforcement and emergency response personnel, inmates and the facility visitors, both orally and in writing, using both technical and non-technical language.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other County employees, supervisory personnel, inmates and facility visitors.
• Ability to prepare accurate and reliable reports containing findings, recommendations, inmate population inventories and disciplinary actions.
• Ability to operate a personal computer using word processing, spreadsheet and database applications appropriate to assigned duties.
• Ability to use logical and creative thought processes to develop solutions according to written specifications and/or oral instructions.
• Ability to perform a wide variety of detention and prisoner control tasks with accuracy and speed under the pressure of time-sensitive deadlines and in an atmosphere of personal danger.
• Ability to quickly learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing information and/or technology.
• Ingenuity and inventiveness in the performance of assigned tasks.

• Graduation from a high school; and
• Some experience in the control of individuals in a secured or organized environment; or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the work.

• Shall not be less than eighteen (18) years of age.
• Must be a citizen of the United States.
• If served in the armed forces, must have received an honorable discharge.
• Must successfully pass all required examinations to include a physical fitness test, a written test, oral interview and a comprehensive background check.
• Must not have been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude.
• Detention Officer Basic Certification (upon completion of one year);
• Possession of a valid Driver's License issued by the State of Montana.
• Must be a resident of Butte-Silver Bow during employment according to Butte-Silver Bow Ordinance. *See Additional Information.

• Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to communicate well with the Detention Facility Administrator, other law enforcement and emergency response personnel, inmates and facility visitors.
• Sufficient vision, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to monitor video screens, conduct searches, monitor prisoner activities and use general office equipment.
• Sufficient manual dexterity, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to operate control systems, perform self-defense tactics and use general office equipment.
• Sufficient personal mobility, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to escort prisoners, enter cells and confined spaces to conduct searches and control belligerent or hostile individuals.

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