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4422 – Correctional service officers
Correctional service officers guard offenders and detainees and maintain order in correctional institutions and other places of detention. They are employed by federal, provincial and municipal governments. Correctional service officers who are supervisors are included in this unit group.
Profile
Example titles
- Correctional facility guard
- Correctional officers supervisor
- Correctional service officer
- Prison guard
Inclusions
- Detention attendant
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
- Observe conduct and behaviour of offenders and detainees to prevent disturbances and escapes
- Supervise offenders during work assignments, meals and recreation periods
- Patrol assigned area and report any problems to supervisor
- Conduct security checks and scanning of visitors, inmates and their cells, working areas and recreational activity areas
- Observe behaviour of offenders and prepare reports
- Escort detainees in transit and during temporary leaves
- Prepare admission, program, release, transfer and other reports
- May supervise and co-ordinate work of other correctional service officers.
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school is required.
- Post-secondary education in correctional services, police studies or criminology may be required.
- Correctional officer recruits must successfully complete the Correctional Service of Canada training course to be employed by federal institutions.
- Correctional officer recruits are usually required to complete a basic training course to be employed by provincial/territorial institutions.
- Physical agility, strength and fitness requirements must be met.
- Correctional service supervisors require experience as a correctional service officer.
- First aid certification and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training are usually required.
Additional information
Exclusions
- Detention home workers (in 4212 Social and community service workers)
- Managers in social, community and correctional services (0423)
- Social workers (4152)
- Probation and parole officers and related occupations (4155)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 4 – Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services
- Skill level
- C – Occupations usually require secondary school and/or occupation-specific training.
- Major group
- 44 – Care providers and educational, legal and public protection support occupations
- Minor group
- 442 – Legal and public protection support occupations
- Associated Career Handbook profiles
- 4422.0 – Correctional service officers
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- NOC 2016 Version 1.3