00102428 - VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTOR, ELECTRONICS (CORRECTIONAL FACILITY)
A Vocational Instructor, Electronics, CF, helps persons committed to State correctional facilities in CDCR prepare to become productive and contributing members of society by training them in the trade and vocational skills necessary to gain employment and by helping them to develop socially acceptable attitudes and interests. The instructors give both individual and group instruction; and, in many instances, participate as members of an interdisciplinary treatment team. The instructors have responsibility for supervising the conduct of the students while in the classroom or shop and may be called upon to assume general custody responsibilities in time of emergency.
The Department stipulates that the instructor play an important role in the total rehabilitation process, as well as in teaching the skills which will enable the individual to seek occupational opportunities.
Instructor’s tasks include: planning, assigning, and supervising work; maintaining control and discipline in the classroom or shop; controlling all materials and equipment which may be used as potential weapons; preparing courses of study and daily lesson plans; counseling students as to progress in the instructional program; working with students in helping them set and meet educational, vocational, and rehabilitative needs and goals; participating in program evaluation; participating in Trade Advisory Committee meetings; preventing escapes and injury by students to themselves or others or to property; inspecting premises and searching students for contraband, such as weapons or illegal drugs; and performing other related duties. Instructors may be assigned as relief instructors, on a full-time basis, in specialties other than those for which they were hired. In addition, they may work with treatment teams which combine the services of personnel in the custody, academic, vocational, psychiatric, and casework areas.
The instructor has an important role of providing information of an educational nature which can help other members of the team to better determine each student’s treatment needs. The instructor has responsibility, once a plan is developed, for providing, through their classroom curriculum program, the type of experience which is compatible with this plan.
Position(s) exist in the following CDCR institution(s):
Avenal State Prison, California City Correctional Facility, Calipatria State Prison, California Correctional Center, California Correctional Institution, Central California Women’s Facility, Centinela State Prison, California Institution for Men, California Institution for Women, California Men’s Colony, California State Prison, Corcoran, California Rehabilitation Center, Correctional Training Facility, Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Folsom State Prison, High Desert State Prison, Ironwood State Prison, Kern Valley State Prison, California State Prison, Los Angeles County, Mule Creek State Prison, Pelican Bay State Prison, Pleasant Valley State Prison, Richard J. Donovan State Prison, California State Prison, Sacramento, Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, California State Prison, Solano, San Quentin State Prison, Valley State Prison
