Start Your Career in Public Safety Today with Excellent Benefits and Pay!
What you could do
Investigate and Report
Interview individuals, review records, assess circumstances, and prepare recommendations that help courts make informed decisions.
Guide and Support
Build professional relationships, encourage accountability, and help individuals identify the steps needed to move forward.
Connect People with Resources
Coordinate access to mental health care, substance-use treatment, education, employment, and other community services.
Protect the Community
Monitor compliance, address risks, support victims, and work with courts, law enforcement agencies, and community partners.
Build a Career and a Future
- Competitive Salary
- Uniform Allowance
- Two-week vacation bank growing to 17 days after two years of employment
- 40-hour personal time bank
- 14 Paid Holidays
- Generous Health Benefits
- Participation in the ‘New York State Employees’ Pension System and Deferred Compensation Plan
- Four weeks of parental leave for the birth of a child or adoption
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Is This Career Right for You?
You may be a strong fit for probation work if you:
- Communicate clearly with people from many different backgrounds.
- Can balance empathy with accountability.
- Remain calm and professional in difficult situations.
- Think critically and make sound, well documented decisions.
- Are comfortable working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Want a career that combines public service, human services and public safety.
- Can manage detailed information while keeping sight of the person behind the case.
*Experience or education in criminal justice, social work, psychology, sociology, human services, counseling, education or related fields may be relevant, depending on the position.
Open Positions
- Building Secruity
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- Supervising YDW
- Youth Detention Workers
Speak with our recruiter now to start on your way to a public safety career.
*Minimum Qualification and Salaries Vary Based on Position
Pay & Benefits
- Starting Salary Range: $45,410 to $93,378
- Double time and a half for overtime
- Uniform Allowance
- Two Weeks Vacation; increase to 17 days after two years
- 40-hour personal time bank
- 14 Paid Holidays
- Generous Health Benefits
- Participation in New York State Employees Pension System and Deferred Compensation Plan
- Four weeks of parental leave for birth of a child or adoption
Training
- Four weeks on the job training so you’re ready for any challenge.
- Experienced supervisors support available to help once you start on the floor.
Work Schedule
- Forty Hour Work Week/ Rotating Days Off
- Three Shifts
- 7am to 3pm
- 3pm to 11pm
- 11pm to 7am
