"Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialist"
Job Description - Part 1
Basic Job Description:Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.
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Job Duties and Tasks for: "Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialist"
1) Prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.
2) Write reports describing offenders' progress.
3) Inform offenders or inmates of requirements of conditional release, such as office visits, restitution payments, or educational and employment stipulations.
4) Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse, and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
5) Gather information about offenders' backgrounds by talking to offenders, their families and friends, and other people who have relevant information.
6) Develop rehabilitation programs for assigned offenders or inmates, establishing rules of conduct, goals, and objectives.
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7) Develop liaisons and networks with other parole officers, community agencies, staff in correctional institutions, psychiatric facilities and after-care agencies in order to make plans for helping offenders with life adjustments.
8) Arrange for medical, mental health, or substance abuse treatment services according to individual needs and/or court orders.
9) Provide offenders or inmates with assistance in matters concerning detainers, sentences in other jurisdictions, writs, and applications for social assistance.
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10) Arrange for post-release services such as employment, housing, counseling, education, and social activities.
11) Recommend remedial action or initiate court action when terms of probation or parole are not complied with.
12) Interview probationers and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
13) Supervise people on community-based sentences, including people on electronically monitored home detention.
14) Assess the suitability of penitentiary inmates for release under parole and statutory release programs, and submit recommendations to parole boards.
15) Investigate alleged parole violations, using interviews, surveillance, and search and seizure.
16) Conduct prehearing and presentencing investigations, and testify in court regarding offenders' backgrounds and recommended sentences and sentencing conditions.
17) Recommend appropriate penitentiary for initial placement of an offender.
18) Participate in decisions about whether cases should go before courts and which court should hear them.
19) Identify and approve work placements for offenders with community service sentences.
20) Develop and prepare packets containing information about social service agencies and assistance organizations and programs that might be useful for inmates or offenders.
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Holland / RIASEC Career Code: S-C-E SOC: 21-1092.00
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