CAPTAIN

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Are you looking for a career you can feel good about? We hire only those that strive to do their best. By joining our family, you'll receive the honor and recognition that comes with working for the industry's global leader in evidenced based rehabilitation.

Who We Are:

GEO provides complementary, turnkey solutions for numerous government partners worldwide across a spectrum of diversified correctional and community reentry services. From the development of state-of-the-art facilities and the provision of management services and evidence-based rehabilitation to the post-release reintegration and supervision of individuals in the community, GEO offers fully diversified, cost-effective services that deliver enhanced quality and improved outcomes.

Why Work for GEO:

• We believe that work is more than a place you go to every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things.
• Employee benefits play an important role in making The GEO Group a great place to work. At GEO, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing: physical, emotional, and financial. With comprehensive benefits and competitive wages, we trust that you will find all the resources you need here to be successful.

Responsibilities

Role and Responsibilities:

As Captain, you will act as the shift commander, directing all security and control operations during a shift. This also means overseeing staff and providing maximum facility coordination, detainee supervision and safety as well as preparing records and reports. In this role, you will:

• Assist in the development and implementation of policies, procedures (including emergency procedures) and regulations for custody, security, and treatment of detainees.
• Conduct inspections to ensure compliance with all security, safety, sanitation, contraband, fire, and other facility regulations
• Review disciplinary matters concerning both staff and detainees.
• Coordinate staffing requirements for security supervisors and officers and assess staff effectiveness.
• Respond to all unusual occurrences.
• Provide direct line supervision over detention officers; make assignments, review post orders, and assure that staff is trained in implementation of all procedures.
• Promote an atmosphere conducive to character development (encourage favorable behavior patterns, arrangement of facilities and influencing relationships among detainees).
• Facilitate prompt assistance to inmates in the event of injury, illness, or emotional trauma.
• Give primary guidance when issues arise; make referrals for more complex problems.
• Support, clarify and help inmates relate to all facility programs.
• Write various documents, including policies, courtroom defenses and contract negotiations.
• Implement facility goals.
• Monitor daily logs.

Qualifications

Competencies Required:

Excellent leadership skills, flexibility, team spirit and the ability to work with a diverse group of people are among this job’s top requirements. Apply if you are qualified as a Resident Advisor have worthwhile qualities with which an detainee can identify.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must meet same basic qualifications as a Resident Advisor.
• Minimum high school graduate or equivalent; related college courses highly desirable.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working in a correctional/detention setting, one of which was in a position requiring supervisory capabilities.
• Must be representative of worthwhile qualities with which a detainee can identify. Must be emotionally stable and understanding. Must be flexible, cooperative, and empathetic to the total needs of the detainees.
• Working knowledge of laws relating to corrections.
• Working knowledge of all applicable court orders.
• Ability to communicate and interact with a variety of personalities.
• Ability to interpret complex written/oral communication, documents, and instructions.
• Ability to make and implement decisions without assistance.
• Ability to give instructions and have them carried out.
• Ability to coordinate staffing requirement for security supervisors and officers.
• Ability to write communication documents, policies, courtroom defenses, contract negotiations, and other required written correspondence.
• Must possess an active, valid driver's license.
• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age or older.
• Must be a United States Citizen.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently : sit.
• Occasionally : lift or carry up to 10 lbs.; push or pull up to 40 lbs.; bend or stoop; reach above shoulder level; work with machinery; walk; stand.

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