Court Services Officer Trainee (Criminal)
Location: Paterson, NJ
Job Number: 2024-09496
Salary: $45,797.84 to $72,189.54
Closing Date: April 8, 2024
The Passaic Vicinage is seeking individuals to join the vicinage Pretrial Services Program. The selected candidates must possess excellent interpersonal, organizational, and case management skills in order to perform the duties required of this position. The selected candidates will regularly interact with pretrial defendants, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, county jail, local law enforcement, the private bar, and the public.
REMOTE WORK: The Judiciary currently offers a hybrid work schedule, and this position may qualify for up to 2 days of remote work outside of Judiciary buildings. To participate in this program, in addition to installing a multifactor authentication app on your phone or tablet, you will be required to have high speed home internet access.
**IF APPLICABLE** The selected candidate will be required to work a non-traditional work week, which will include Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and after hours on-call responsibilities.- Researching criminal case histories.
- Conducting pretrial risk assessments and preparing reports.
- Meeting with defendants.
- Making recommendations to judges regarding conditions of pretrial release for pretrial defendants.
- Staffing first appearance/Central Judicial Processing hearings and pretrial detention hearings.
- Monitoring the conditions of pretrial release for pretrial defendants.
- Assisting pretrial defendants in attaining specific goals to ensure their appearance in court and the safety of the public during the defendant's pretrial release, and report the defendant's non-compliance with conditions of release to the court.
- Providing guidance to clients with specific needs, including but not limited to social, emotional, and rehabilitative concerns.
- Making recommendations and/or referrals for social services, testing, treatment and/or counseling and will monitor clients' treatment progress.
- The selected candidate will be required to work a nontraditional work week, which will include weekends, holidays, evening hours, and on-call electronic monitoring duty.
- Conduct and monitor urine and/or saliva drug tests as ordered by the Court.
- Conducting random home detention checks via video or verifiable contemporaneous photographic proof.
- Other related duties as required.
