Job Specification
PAROLE OFFICER RECRUIT, JUVENILE JUSTICE
DEFINITION
Under the immediate supervision of a supervisory officer in the
Juvenile Justice Commission, attends residential training in various
law enforcement courses as authorized by the New Jersey Police
Training Commission. Observes and participates in responsibilities
associated with the development, coordination, and monitoring
activities of paroled juvenile offenders assigned to specific programs
of varying types. Learns to utilize a balanced approach of supervision
directed toward the parolee and the encouragement of family members'
involvement in communal programs, counseling, and treatment as
required. Attends classes and seminars addressing principles of
supervision practices and surveillance activities in accord with State
Parole Statutes and regulations. Assists Senior Parole Officers,
Juvenile Justice in the performance of their assigned duties and
receives on-the-job training and instruction in the proper methods and
practices for monitoring parolee activities, and learns other aspects
of the job; does other related duties.
NOTE: The examples of work for this title are for illustrative
purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform
all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties
performed on the job may not be listed.
NOTE: Appointments may be made to positions requiring bilingual skills.
40803C- Bilingual in Spanish and English.
SPECIAL SKILL
Applicants must be able to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in
Spanish and English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position.
EXAMPLES OF WORK:
Observes and learns the proper procedures to exercise all powers and
rights of enforcement to function as a law enforcement officer for the
detection, apprehension, arrest, and prosecution of offenders against
the law.
Learns the proper usage, security, integrity, and care for carrying
firearms and the responsibility of maintaining firearms and other
restraints and defense equipment while performing assigned duties.
Learns how to conduct and participates in interviews with juvenile
offenders pending parole hearings for the purpose of determining needs
assessment reviews of each juvenile offender for the development of
appropriate services.
Observes how to conduct ongoing case management evaluation and
monitoring principles and practices of assigned cases throughout
custodial and community supervision portions of the sentence.
Learns how to develop and participates in the development of the
delivery of services necessitated for each corresponding disposition
commitment.
Observes programs developed for social, emotional, and economic
adjustment of juvenile parolees.
Observes and participates in various classification and selection
committees processes and related principles and practices associated
with these forums.
Attends an inresidence Parole Officer Recruit training program to
learn various law enforcement practices, instructions, and
qualification of firearms training, report preparation, surveillance
and detection techniques, parole laws, and applicable regulations,
practices, and procedures for conducting investigations of various
types and proper procedures for arrest and apprehension of parolee
violators.
Attends specific program classes for instruction and receives on-
the-job training and specific instructions of parole related practices
and principles and other areas of training needs in performing parole
work in either a Regional Aftercare Office or an Institution Aftercare
Office.
As a recruit in training under close supervision, may be assigned as a
member of a group or assigned individually for one-to-one intense
training opportunities.
Assists and participates in conducting investigations of existing and
potential employment and educational opportunities for juvenile
parolees or juveniles about to be paroled.
Learns how to prepare and assists in the preparation of detailed
reports to be utilized in the preparation and development of case
histories and assessment reviews.
Learns how to recognize and rapidly evaluate potentially dangerous
situations involving parolee apprehension.
Learns to exercise caution and good judgment in handling these
circumstances to avoid personal injury or to prevent endangerment to
the general public and/or serious personal or commercial property
damage.
Observes and participates in custody and aftercare program activities
related to classification determinations, selection decisions,
releases, available opportunities for treatment, and communal
programs.
Learns the techniques to properly interview juveniles, employers,
educators, tutors, relatives, and other interested persons to clarify
parole goals and objectives to be attained and available resources,
treatment, and counseling activities of the parole release program.
Learns how to identify and properly implement parole violations and
the enforcement of appropriate sanctions.
Learns how to conduct and participates in covert and surveillance
investigations to apprehend parolees engaged in new criminal
activities. Learns how to establish relationships with various
community groups and agencies, various law enforcement agencies,
courts, probation and welfare agencies, schools and county outreach
education programs, and medical and treatment facilities for the
purpose of providing rehabilitation alternatives and communal programs
as available alternatives to seeking further confinement needs.
Learns the practices and procedures for monitoring specific
enforcement programs.
Learns how to properly serve arrest warrants and contacting local law
enforcement authorities to provide resources and/or information as
circumstances warrant.
Learns how to serve as a resource person for juvenile parolees,
liaison for Commission activities, and advocate for parolee and
Commission designated communal programs and delivery of services in an
efficient and cost effective manner within the needs expediency of
each case.
Learns to explain court imposed revenue obligations to be paid by
parolees and collections set forth by the court and activities
required to maintain recordkeeping needs and collections efforts to be
accomplished.
Assists in evaluating caseload needs and parolee supervision
requirements.
Learns how to prepare incident reports of parolee violations and
procedures of reporting such incidents and the investigations required
to prepare reports and recommendations thereof.
Services a caseload and provides assistance to Senior Parole Officers,
Juvenile Justice concerning juvenile parolees and their activities.
Prepares and composes correspondence, memorandums, reports, and other
communications.
Learns how to serve as a Hearing Officer in the preliminary phases of
Probable Cause Hearings and the process thereof.
Learns how to act as a witness and testify before formal hearings,
Grand Juries, Courts of law, administrative hearings, or other
judicial bodies.
When assigned to an investigative team, performs under close
supervision investigations, surveillance, and covert activities in
conjunction with Commission directives.
Learns how to maintain and input data into a case management system
addressing parolees activities and investigative matters for
up-to-date status information and needs assessment reviews.
Learns procedures on how to convey information to parolees and their
relatives who are not knowledgeable of the English Language.
Learns how to maintain essential records and the security of
confidential records and files.
Learns how to utilize various types of video, audio, electronic
communications, photographic, and computer information systems and
other various types of recording equipment, devices, and manual
recordings used by the agency, institutions, facilities, or related
components.
Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic
and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by
the agency, office, or related units.
REQUIREMENTS:
EDUCATION:
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a
Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Criminal Justice, Psychology, or
related field of study.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
AGE:
Minimum of eighteen (18) years of age.
CITIZENSHIP
No person shall be appointed as a State Parole Officer Recruit
unless he/she is a citizen of the United States.
NOTE: At the time of appointment, applicants for this position
must submit acceptable proof of meeting the indicated requirements.
NOTE: Appointee will be required to satisfactorily complete an
the Basic Course for Juvenile Parole Officers mandated by the Police
Training Commission as a part of the one (1) year recruit period. Such
training includes successful attainment of a level of proficiency in
the use of firearms.
SPECIAL NOTE: Candidates certified from the eligible list for this title will
be required to undergo medical and psychological examination
administered by the appointing authority
LICENSE:
Appointees must possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey.
NOTE: The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess the
required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and type
of vehicles they operate, rests with the Appointing Authority.
SPECIAL NOTES:
Selected eligible candidates will be required to successfully
complete the New Jersey Police Training Commission course standards in
arrest, apprehension, investigations, parole supervision, and other
related law enforcement requirements. Such training shall also include
firearms training and the ability to qualify and successfully attain
the required level of proficiency and the ability to requalify with
firearms on a semiannual basis. All training requirements and the
successful completion thereof these aspects reflect a one year
training period in addition to the satisfactory completion of the
working test period as a Parole Officer Recruit, Juvenile Justice to
be considered as an eligible appointee for appointment to the Senior
Parole Officer, Juvenile Justice position.
Candidates accepting employment are required to adhere to the
employment restrictions that they not pursue outside gainful
employment during their course of employment unless approved by the
Executive Director of the Juvenile Justice Commission or appropriate
designee.
Candidates may be required during the working test period to
attain required motor vehicle license commensurate with the class and
types of vehicles to be operated. Verification of such license rests
with the Appointing Authority.
Selected eligible candidates shall meet the qualifications for
juvenile corrections officers and shall be employed as juvenile
corrections officers pursuant to section 6 of P.L. 1995, c. 284 (NJSA
52:17B-174).
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of economic, social, emotional, and other related problems
of juvenile offender parolees and the issues and problems expected of
such persons to encounter and the reactions thereof.
Ability to learn the proper exercise in the powers and rights of a law
enforcement officer for the detection, apprehension, arrest, and
prosecution of offenders against the law.
Ability to learn the standards and procedures for arrest and
apprehension of parolee violators.
Ability to interpret and apply information gleaned on the theories of
social work administration practices and principles addressing
juvenile offenders.
Ability to interpret information gleaned on the standards and theories
developed in applied penology, sociology, and criminology practices in
the Juvenile Justice System.
Ability to ensure the security, safety, care, usage, and integrity of
firearms and other restraints and defense equipment.
Ability to learn to recognize potentially dangerous situations and to
evaluate options involving parolees' safety and when and how to
exercise independent judgment in handling such volatile situations and
the circumstances for warranting caution.
Ability to assist with the caseload management assigned to Senior
Parole Officers, Juvenile Justice and to learn to evaluate and
maintain a caseload independently of direct supervision.
Ability to learn the techniques utilized to conduct interviews and
investigations of parolees, their families, and on related parole
matters and issues.
Ability to gain community resources awareness to be utilized for
enrichment purposes for juvenile parolees, addressing social,
economic, and emotional rehabilitative objectives fostered by the
Juvenile Justice Commission directives and standards.
Ability to communicate with parolees and their families to ensure
parole release program compliance, who are of varying ethnic and
language backgrounds, education, and economic levels.
Ability to foster selfassurance attitudes for juvenile offenders and
parolees to build on for themselves and toward others.
Ability to learn methods to collect payments and set schedules of
collections of court issued orders and agreements.
Ability to learn methods and procedures for conducting investigations
of various types.
Ability to learn surveillance methods and procedures.
Ability to learn law enforcement and administrative procedures for
reporting parole violations.
Ability to learn to prepare detailed and informative case histories,
summaries, assessment reviews, specific classification needs for
habitation objectives, parole related matters and activities
monitored, findings of facts, recommendations, and conclusions.
Ability to utilize electronic communications equipment and database
software utilized during the extent of an investigation.
Ability to respond to emergency situations expediently and remain
accessible at all times including days-off and off-duty hours.
Ability to learn to establish and maintain cooperative working
relationships with juvenile parolees, local officials, parolee
relatives, and other interested parties and agencies representatives.
Ability to learn the aspects and techniques to gain the confidence and
respect of parolees to provide them with bonafide career opportunities
and personal development and emotional stability during their
rehabilitation period of adjustment.
Ability to learn the levels of supervision to be applied case-by- case
in evaluating circumstances and the monitoring activities of parolees.
Ability to prepare detailed correspondence, memorandums, reports,
summaries, and other communications on parole matters and issues as
directed.
Ability to learn principles and practices of agency directives as they
apply to juvenile delinquency problems and issues.
Ability to gather, collect, maintain, collate, interpret, and
disseminate statistical information.
Ability to participate in the monitoring of varying programs for the
purpose of rehabilitation and educational objectives and related
personal development activities of juvenile parolees and young adults.
Ability to qualify with firearms on a semiannual basis.
Ability to learn to utilize various types of video, audio,
photographic, electronic communications, computer information systems,
and other various types of recording equipment, devices, and manual
recordings used by the agency, institutions, facilities, or related
components.
Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual
recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or
related units.
Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English
sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign
Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of
communication.
Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as
they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable
accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation
cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship,
such persons may not be eligible.
PROMOTION
Appointees who successfully complete the required working test period
in addition to the 12-month training period, including the Police
Training Commission and agency training requirements will be eligible
for advancement to the title Senior Parole Officer, Juvenile Justice
under Civil Service Commission Procedures.
The inability of an appointee in this title to attain the level of
performance warranting advancement to the title listed above shall be
considered as cause for separation from employment.
This job specification is applicable to the following title code(s) which
are different work week or work month and/or variants of the job class title: | | Job
Spec
Code | Variant | State,
Local or
Common | Class of
Service | Work
Week | State
Class
Code | Local
Class
Code | Salary
Range | Note | | 40803 | | S | C | 40 | 99 | N/A | F99 | - | | 40803C | Bilingual In Spanish & English | S | C | 40 | 99 | N/A | F99 | - |
This job specification is for state government use only.
Salary range is only applicable to state government.
Local salaries are established by individual local jurisdictions.
02/05/2004 |
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