Qualifications Standard for Positions Requiring
Collateral Correctional Skills
The text below is extracted verbatim from
Section IV-A (pp.37-38) of the Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for
General Schedule Positions [MANUAL], but contains minor edits to
conform to web-page requirements.
This qualification standard covers positions located in the Bureau of Prisons or
a similar correctional institution or facility confining criminal offenders and/or
persons awaiting trial or sentencing for felony charges. These positions have collateral
correctional duties and responsibilities for the on-the-job training, supervision,
guidance, and incarceration of inmate workers in combination with the primary duties
and responsibilities of the employee's occupation.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must meet the minimum requirements in the qualification standard for the
occupational series and grade level to which their position is classified, without
regard to augmented grade levels for the required correctional skills.
COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS
In addition to meeting the basic requirements, applicants must have demonstrated
(either in their background or in a selection interview) that they possess, or have
the potential to develop, the qualities necessary for the effective supervision and
guidance of inmate workers. These qualities include the ability to:
- Motivate, train, and work effectively with people of differing backgrounds and
behavioral patterns.
- Communicate effectively with others, both orally and in writing.
- Accomplish the quantity and quality of work required.
- Plan and carry out assignments effectively.
- Reason soundly and think out practical solutions to problems.
- Pay attention to detail.
- Remain calm and retain poise and self-confidence, particularly under stress.
These qualities may have been demonstrated in work such as:
- Social case work.
- Classroom teaching or instructing.
- Responsible rehabilitation work, e.g., in an alcoholic rehabilitation program.
- Supervision of planned recreational activities.
- Community action program work.
- Interviewing and counseling work.
- Management of, or supervising work in, a business or other organization that
included personnel management responsibilities in addition to directing work
performance.
- Sales work that was not limited to taking and filling orders.
SELECTION INTERVIEW
Prior to appointment, applicants may be required to appear for an interview to determine
whether they possess the qualities and abilities necessary to perform the correctional
duties of the position. The interview will also serve to acquaint applicants with further
details about the position and the surrounding environment.
If applicants do not demonstrate the essential qualities and abilities required for
successful performance of the correctional duties, they will be found ineligible for positions
with these duties. Such applicants will not be considered for appointment to positions that
require correctional skills.
MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must be capable of efficiently performing the duties of the position, and be
free from any medical condition that is likely to affect their ability to perform safely
the full range of duties required for the position. Because the performance of duties
requires day to day contact with convicted felons and/or persons awaiting trial or sentencing
for felony charges, candidates must also possess emotional and mental stability. Also, the
duties of the position require moderate to arduous physical exertion involving prolonged
walking and standing, and the restraint, apprehension, or physical control of inmates in
emergency situations. Height and weight must be such that they do not hamper the effective
performance of the required duties.
Good distant vision in one eye and ability to read printed material the size of typewritten
characters are required, corrective lenses permitted. Ability to hear the conversational
voice, with or without a hearing aid, is required. In most instances, an amputation of arm,
hand, leg, or foot will not disqualify an applicant for appointment, although it may be
necessary that this condition be compensated by use of a prosthesis, provided that the use
of any prosthesis is not likely to affect job performance adversely. On a case by case basis,
it will be determined whether the disability will qualify/disqualify the candidate for
employment.
A medical examination is required prior to appointment.
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