Assistant Corrections Counselor

Effingham County Board of Commissioners

  • Springfield, Missouri
  • 5 days ago
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    Description

    Assistant Corrections Counselor
    $18.32​/Hour
     
    Purpose Of Classification
    This classification provides counseling services for inmates, including personal and social adjustment. Work involves coordinating inmate programs and activities, managing inmates, and preparing reports.
     
    Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**):
    The following duties are typical for this position.  The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification.  Other duties may be required and assigned.
    • Serves as a coordinator and instructor over inmates’ programs, including the Pre-Release Program; provides inmates with various information, including creating resumes, completing job applications, and developing job skills.
    • Assists inmates with residential issues; seeks alternative housing through community resources
    • Performs various counseling services for inmates, including securing documents in the inmates’ files.
    • Ensures that the inmates' institutional and medical files are prepared for transferring out; secures all incoming institutional and medical files on inmates transferring in.
    • Answers incoming calls: routes calls to the appropriate party; takes messages as needed.
    • Serves as a member of the Inmate’s Classification Committee for assigning work details to new inmates.
    • Advises and informs the Warden and Deputy Warden of all prison operations and information; notifies them of potential problems or matters of concern.
    • Receives various forms, reports, correspondence, manuals, reference materials, or other documentation; reviews, completes, processes, forwards, or retains as appropriate.
    • Operates a computer to enter, retrieve, review, or modify data; verifies accuracy of entered data and makes corrections; utilizes spreadsheets or other software programs.
    • Communicate with supervisors, employees, other departments, the public, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review work status, exchange information, or resolve problems.
    • Attend workshops and conferences as required.
    ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
    • Assists other employees or departments as needed.
    • Performs other related duties as required.
    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
    High school diploma or GED; supplemented by vocational training in business and office technology; supplemented by two (2) years of previous experience and/or training that includes counseling and office administration; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.  Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license. 
    PERFORMANCE APTITUDES
    Data Utilization
    Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. This includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.
    Human Interaction: 
    Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit.  Includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels.
    Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: 
    Requires the ability to operate, maneuver, and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
    Verbal Aptitude: 
    Requires the ability to utilize various reference, descriptive, advisory, and/or design data and information.
    Mathematical Aptitude: 
    Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.
    Functional Reasoning
    Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
    Situational Reasoning: 
    It requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to those clearly measurable or verifiable.
     
    ADA COMPLIANCE
    Physical Ability:  
    Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, which may involve lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
    Sensory Requirements:
    Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, taste, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals.  Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
    Environmental Factors:
    Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, toxic agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
     
    ** To comply with regulations by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the principal duties in job descriptions must be essential to the job. To identify essential functions, focus on the duties' purpose and result rather than how they are performed. The following definition applies: a job function is essential if removing that function would fundamentally change the job.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSpringfield, Missouri
    Websitehttps://www.effinghamcounty.org

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