Job Type: Permanent Full Time
Staring Salary: $32.15 per hour
Posting Closes: February 25, 2025
Careers in Corrections
Correctional services play a key role in Ontario’s criminal justice system. Ontario operates adult correctional institutions and probation and parole offices for offenders serving jail sentences of less than two years and community supervision for up to three years. This includes the supervision of adult offenders under provincial parole supervision, as well as providing programs and services designed to assist in offender rehabilitation.
Career opportunities in correctional services are diverse and exciting, and corrections staff take pride in making a difference in the lives of those in custody and under supervision. Corrections staff help keep communities safe while safeguarding the human rights of individuals placed in the correctional system.
Make a difference by becoming a Correctional Officer
A career in corrections will appeal to individuals who enjoy working rotating shifts and tackling challenges on the job. Duties include ensuring the security and custody of inmates, as well as providing rehabilitative care to inmates that meets their diverse and unique needs. Correctional officers are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Correctional officers receive a thorough training program, both on the job and at a ministry training site. Training includes search procedures, self-defense and emergency response.
Correctional Officers must be:
- Alert and prepared to react to the unexpected
- Able to handle a variety of difficult situations when dealing with the inmate population
- Able to communicate effectively with a variety of people
- Able to work as a member of a team of professionals in the care and rehabilitation of inmates
- Willing to work shifts
To apply for Correctional Officer opportunities, please contact: Christopher.Ruel@ontario.ca
For more information about careers in corrections, please visit https://www.ontario.ca/page/careers-corrections
If you would like to speak to recruiters in person, representatives from the Ministry of the Solicitor General’s Correctional Services Recruitment Team will be in Sault Ste. Marie for one day only on Tuesday, February 25, at the Sault Community Career Centre, 503 Queen Street East, to provide information about career opportunities as Correctional Officers and Probation and Parole Officers. For more information and to register to attend, please visit: https://saultcareercentre.ca/workshop/careers-in-corrections/.