Job Family: 21-0000 Community and Social Services

Job Family: 21-0000 Community and Social Services

Occupational Group: 21-1090 Probation Officer & Correction Treatment

OCCUPATION PROFILE

JOB FAMILY: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: PROBATION OFFICER & CORRECTION

TREATMENT

OCCUPATION: PROBATION OFFICER & CORR TREATMENT SPEC

21-1092

BROADBAND LEVELS: Level 1– Pay Band 004

Level 2– Pay Band 005

Level 3– Pay Band 007

Level 4– Pay Band 008

DESCRIPTION

This is work providing social services to assist in rehabilitation of juvenile law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Incumbents make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.

Some positions in this occupation may be responsible for coordinating work and supervising employees.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Supervises employees by assigning work, reviewing progress and assessing performance.

Counsels offender and refers offender to social resources of community for assistance.

Provides guidance to inmates or offenders, such as development of vocational and educational plans and available social services.

Formulates rehabilitation plan for each assigned offender or inmate.

Interviews offender or inmate to determine social progress, individual problems, needs, interests, and attitude.

Consults with attorneys, judges, and institution personnel to evaluate inmate's social progress.

Conducts follow-up interview with offender or inmate to ascertain progress made.

Determines nature and extent of inmate's or offender's criminal record and current and prospective social problems.

Reviews and evaluates legal and social history and progress of offender or inmate.

Informs offender or inmate of requirements of conditional release, such as office visits, restitution payments, or educational and employment stipulations.

Confers with inmate's or offender's family to identify needs and problems, and to ensure that family and business are attended to.

Makes recommendations concerning conditional release or institutionalization of offender or inmate.

Assists offender or inmate with matters concerning detainers, sentences in other jurisdictions, writs, and applications for social assistance.

Develops and prepares informational packets of social agencies and assistance

organizations and programs, for inmate or offender.

Prepares and maintains case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.

Conducts pre-hearing or pre-sentencing investigations and testifies in court.

EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS

Getting Information Needed to Do the Job / Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems / Combining, evaluating, and reasoning with information and data to make decisions and solve problems. These processes involve making decisions about the relative importance of information and choosing the best solution.
Judging Qualities of Things, Services, And/or People / Making judgments about or assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Documenting/Recording Information / Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in either written form or by electronic/magnetic recording.
Communicating With Persons Outside Of the Organization / Communicating with persons outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged face-to-face, in writing, or via telephone/electronic transfer.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events / Identifying information received by making estimates or categorizations, recognizing differences or similarities, or sensing changes in circumstances or events.
Assisting and Caring for Others / Providing assistance or personal care to others.
Establishing and Maintaining Relationships / Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
Developing Objectives and Strategies / Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve these objectives.
Monitor Processes, Materials, and/or Surroundings / Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems or to find out when things are finished.

EXAMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Speaking / Talking to others to effectively convey information
Active Listening / Listening to what other people are saying and asking questions as appropriate
Judgment and Decision Making / Weighing the relative costs and benefits of a potential action
Service Orientation / Actively looking for ways to help people
Social Perceptiveness / Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react the way they do
Information Gathering / Knowing how to find information and identifying essential information
Critical Thinking / Using logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches
Reading Comprehension / Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
Problem Identification / Identifying the nature of problems
Coordination / Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
Therapy and Counseling / Knowledge of information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and to provide career guidance including alternative treatments, rehabilitation equipment and its proper use, and methods to evaluate treatment effects
Psychology / Knowledge of human behavior and performance, mental processes, psychological research methods, and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders
Law, Government and Jurisprudence / Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

EFFECTIVE: 03/17/2003

History: 07/01/2002

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