Jail Clerk

Job Description

Jail Clerk

$35,592.00- $53,390.00 DOE**

+$1 per hour worked in environmental pay 

*All job-related experience must be included on the resume portion for it to be considered in the salary offer.

For Benefits information click HERE 

JOB SUMMARY

Provides prisoner services such as scheduling, receiving and checking in visitors. Provides telephone services, screenes prisoner mail, and distributes commissary merchandise to prisoners.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

One year of full-time experience working in an office environment or a certificate of successfull completion of a 1 year office administration program.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

Must be a resident of the State of Utah at the time of hire.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Pre-schedules prisoner visits, verifies and records visitor information, answers questions on Jail policies, booking, charges, bail amount, commitments, and length of incarceration.
• Answers and routes calls to employees; assists attorneys, judges, and bail bondsmen with call-in questions; assists callers who receive sensitive or threatening from inside the jail; and receives calls on serious injury, illness, or death notifications.
• Checks in visitors; provides orientation; coordinates professional walk-in visits from legal advisors, clergy members, and health care providers.
• Monitors multiple movement and waiting area cameras; directs visitors to correct area; facilitates movement to and from visitation areas by operating security doors.
• Runs warrants and record checks on visitors using BCI, III, etc., and Offender Management System, OMS.
• Screeens incoming and outgoing prisoner mail, email, magazines, newpapers, and books for irregularities or violations; monitors for contraband.
• Obtains prisoner signatures and performs notary services; receives funds through the mail, prepares deposits, updates prisoners accounts on OMS.
• Picks up and delivers inter-office mail, prisoner kites, and grievances.
• Processes out-going mail and returns insufficient postage mail to prisoners.
• Accepts delivery of pre-packaged commissary from contracted provider; sorts commissary orders by housing units; delivers sorted prisoner commissary orders; delivers welfare items weekly.
• Updates OMS and commissary tracking systems; receives and sends information from other agencies and jurisdictions via telephone, email, fax, teletype or correspondence.
• Performs a variety of general office tasks.
• Assists in training new employees.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)

Knowledge of:

• General office procedures and standard administrative duties
• Professional telephone etiquette
• General office equipment
• Computer operations and techniques
• Filing methods and techniques
• Customer service concepts and principles
• Applicable laws, rules, regulations, and/or policies and procedures

Skills and Abilities to:

• Pass a data entry skills test
• Operate standard office equipment
• Follow verbal and written procedures and instructions
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Additional Information

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Sits for long periods of time; lifts items up to 20 lbs. and place on cart or shelf up to four feet from floor.

This position works in the Salt Lake County Jail, which is a locked down facility, has direct contact with prisoners, and may be exposed to stress as a result of human behavior in a jail environment.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POSITION

Works rotating shifts and assignments, weekends, and holidays and is subject to call-out 24 hours a day.