Department of Civil Service

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Positions

This title exists in Corrections and Community Supervision and has approximately 51 position.

You are viewing a title with a traineeship, please note this number of positions reflects the number of positions established at the full performance level.

*The number of positions is approximate and represents the number of positions established (both filled and vacant); it is not an indication or reference to position type or duration, or intent to be filled.

Career Ladder

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Job Duties

As an Offender Rehabilitation Aide Trainee in a correctional facility, you would assist the guidance and counseling staff in their casework, including interviewing inmates; assisting with inmate group sessions; maintaining case files; and assisting in the care and confinement of inmates sentenced to custody of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. After one year of satisfactory service as an Offender Rehabilitation Aide Trainee, you would advance without further examination, to the position of Offender Rehabilitation Aide.

The Classification standard for this title illustrates the nature, extend, and scope of duties and responsibilities of the classes they describe. There is no classification standard available currently for this title.

Summary of Minimum Qualifications

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

You must take and pass a Civil Service examination in order to be considered for this position.

On or before the date of the examination, the candidate must be a qualified employee of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and have had three months of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a position allocated to Grade 6 or higher. You must also meet one of the following requirements:

1. an associate’s degree or completion of 60 semester credit hours of undergraduate study;

OR

2. 30 semester credit hours of undergraduate study AND one year of full-time professional or paraprofessional experience working with clients in drug and/or alcohol counseling programs; mental hygiene programs; parole and probation programs; juvenile offender programs; or in programs dealing with ex-offenders or incarcerated offenders.

For informational purposes only, click on the examination number(s) listed below to see the current or previous examination(s) that are used to fill this title.

00-456010

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. Job postings on StateJobsNY will contain the most up-to-date qualifications.

How to Apply

When this examination is scheduled to be held, the announcement can be found on the Department of Civil Service, Examination Announcements web page. If you do not see an examination currently scheduled please check back on a monthly basis or sign up for email notification so that you will automatically be notified when new examinations are being offered.

Mobility Options

Career mobility is not just limited to the titles in the career ladder. Additional movement may be achieved through transfer or other examinations.

For additional information or clarification of transfer determinations, current State employees should contact the Career Mobility Office at (518) 485-6199 or (800) 553-1322.

You can also visit ELMS Online to view established open-competitive, promotion, and transition eligible lists.