Correctional Probation Senior Officer

The State of Florida is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Correctional Probation Senior Officer to join our team. As a Correctional Probation Senior Officer, you will be responsible for supervising, surveilling, and maintaining a specialized caseload of youthful offenders, drug offender probation, community controlees, pre-trial intervention offenders, offender releases, or any combination of the above.

• Encourage and foster offender compliance with the supervision order through guidance, goal setting, monitoring of offender behavior, and supervision in the community.
• Conduct field and office supervision visits via personal contact, collateral/community contacts, surveillance contacts, telephone contacts, and electronic methods to ensure compliance with conditions of supervision and to provide assistance to offenders as appropriate.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to public and victim needs, concerns, and complaints and take appropriate, prompt action as required.
• Assess and/or assist in assessing and identifying offender needs, treatment options, and supervision objectives and refer offenders as appropriate.
• Establish and record structured treatment programs, client management classifications, pre-trial contracts, and other programs designed to enhance offender improvement in areas of education, psychological counseling, social services, health education, vocational training, substance abuse, and other areas of need and ensure adherence to these plans.
• Utilize information management system to develop offender payment plans for all monetary obligations ordered by the sentencing or releasing authority and enforce offender compliance with the payment plan.
• Maintain case records, in both electronic and hard copy, documenting the status of offender background, legal history, treatment, and progress of the offender under supervision.
• Conduct pre-sentence, pre-trial, post-sentence, interstate compact, sentencing guidelines, and other required investigations on offenders.
• Make recommendations on offenders under supervision or pending disposition to the sentencing or releasing authorities regarding continued supervision, revocation, diversion, and incarceration.
• Exhibit appropriate demeanor and knowledge as a representative of the department.
• Attend hearings or appear as a witness in any proceedings before a sentencing or releasing authority making determinations regarding offenders under supervision.
• Report non-compliance with order of supervision to sentencing or releasing authority and prepare violation and other required reports, forwarding them to appropriate sentencing or releasing authority.
• Maintain liaison with the judiciary, prosecutors, public defenders, law enforcement, treatment providers, non-profit service agencies, governmental agencies, other facilities, offices, and bureaus of the department, and other criminal justice representatives.
• Develop partnerships with local law enforcement to foster public safety.
• Conduct individual and group counseling of an informal and formal nature for offenders as needed.
• Interview offenders to obtain information relating to supervision or investigation.
• Monitor and test offenders for the use of controlled substances and alcohol as directed by the sentencing or releasing authority or as necessary for the protection of the community.
• Develop and maintain contact with resources suitable for placement of offenders in public service assignments as directed by the sentencing or releasing authority.
• Conduct searches and make arrests of offenders under supervision.
• Install and maintain electronic/radio equipment, including global positioning satellite systems, utilized to monitor offenders and interpret data collected for the purpose of documenting compliance with supervision conditions.
• Handle administrative duties and assist supervisors in supervisor's absence as assigned.
• Serve on teams or committees and task forces to study issues, solve problems, refine existing practices, develop new programs or procedures, or implement new policies.
• Attend and deliver training relating to the duties and responsibilities of the job and for career development.