Job Requirements

To be considered for the Correctional Officer/Juvenile Counsellor Training Program, candidates must meet or have the following requirements, or obtain them by an assigned date during training:

• meet medical and physical fitness requirements
• provide a Criminal Record Search, Child Abuse Registry Check, and Adult Abuse Registry Check
• submit to internal security checks
• have valid First Aid and CPR certificates
• have a valid Class 5 driver’s license (Class 5I Intermediate licenses may be permitted; contingent on date code)
• commit to the 8 week Correctional Officer/Juvenile Counsellor Training Program. (Note: The program runs five days a week, eight hours day and is unpaid.)

Medical Requirements
Before training, candidates will be given a medical fitness form that must be filled out by their doctor. It asks some basic questions about ones past and current health.

Physical Fitness
There are two physical fitness standards:

1. Personal physical fitness

Candidates must maintain the level of physical fitness required to do the job.

A corrections officer or counsellors may sometimes need to do jobs that require stamina, strength and the ability to exert maximum and/or sustained physical effort. These activities include emergency response, first aid/CPR, dealing with physical fights and extensive walking or running.

Requirements include:

• Upper and lower body strength to restrain or search inmates
• Running ability in the event of an emergency response
• Good vision (corrected/uncorrected)
• Good hearing (aided/unaided)
• Depth perception (visual acuteness and awareness)

2. Ability to work well in the operating environment

• Prolonged sitting e.g. escorts, night duty
• Shift work including 12 hour shifts
• 7 day/week operation
• Prolonged walking e.g. security tours
• Ability to run up a flight of stairs.
• Ability to respond quickly to emergency calls Outdoors e.g. recreation, surveillance
• Enclosed environment (secured/confined)