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Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists: reported tasks and exploration worksheet
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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This source lists 21 tasks, including 17 marked Core and 4 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.
Task source dates: 08/2020.
21 tasks shown
Core · Task 1614 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.
Core · Task 1618 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Gather information about offenders' backgrounds by talking to offenders, their families and friends, and other people who have relevant information.
Core · Task 1625 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Interview probationers and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
Core · Task 1617 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
Core · Task 20056 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Supervise people on community-based sentences, such as electronically monitored home detention, and provide field supervision of probationers by conducting curfew checks or visits to home, work, or school.
Core · Task 1628 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Investigate alleged parole violations, using interviews, surveillance, and search and seizure.
Core · Task 1624 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Recommend remedial action or initiate court action in response to noncompliance with terms of probation or parole.
Core · Task 1621 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Arrange for medical, mental health, or substance abuse treatment services according to individual needs or court orders.
Core · Task 1620 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Develop liaisons and networks with other parole officers, community agencies, correctional institutions, psychiatric facilities, and aftercare agencies to plan for helping offenders with life adjustments.
Core · Task 20055 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Administer drug and alcohol tests, including random drug screens of offenders, to verify compliance with substance abuse treatment programs.
Core · Task 1616 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Inform offenders or inmates of requirements of conditional release, such as office visits, restitution payments, or educational and employment stipulations.
Core · Task 1631 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Participate in decisions about whether cases should go before courts and which court should hear them.
Core · Task 1615 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Write reports describing offenders' progress.
Core · Task 1629 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Conduct prehearing and presentencing investigations and testify in court regarding offenders' backgrounds and recommended sentences and sentencing conditions.
Core · Task 1623 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Arrange for postrelease services, such as employment, housing, counseling, education, and social activities.
Core · Task 1622 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Provide offenders or inmates with assistance in matters concerning detainers, sentences in other jurisdictions, writs, and applications for social assistance.
Core · Task 1633 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Develop and prepare packets containing information about social service agencies, assistance organizations, and programs that might be useful for inmates or offenders.
Supplemental · Task 1619 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Develop rehabilitation programs for assigned offenders or inmates, establishing rules of conduct, goals, and objectives.
Supplemental · Task 1630 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Recommend appropriate penitentiary for initial placement of an offender.
Supplemental · Task 1627 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Assess the suitability of penitentiary inmates for release under parole and statutory release programs and submit recommendations to parole boards.
Supplemental · Task 1632 · 08/2020 · Incumbent
Identify and approve work placements for offenders with community service sentences.
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