Bailiff Job Description
The Bailiff’s job is to maintain order in courts of law.
Bailiff Job Tasks
- The Bailiff collects and retains unauthorized firearms from persons entering courtroom.
- The Bailiff maintains order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact.
- The Bailiff guards lodging of sequestered jury.
- The Bailiff provides jury escort to restaurant and other areas outside of courtroom to prevent jury contact with public.
- The Bailiff enforces courtroom rules of behavior and warns persons not to smoke or disturb court procedures.
- The Bailiff reports needs for police or medical assistance to sheriff’s office.
- The Bailiff checks courtroom for security and cleanliness and assures availability of sundry supplies for the judge.
- The Bailiff announces entrance of the judge.
- The Bailiff stops people from entering courtroom while judge charges jury.
The Bailiff needs knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, date, property and institutions. The Bailiff needs knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. The Bailiff needs knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. The Bailiff needs knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. The Bailiff needs knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. The Bailiff needs knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
The Skills and Abilities of a Bailiff
- The Bailiff needs the skills of active listening. This includes giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- The Bailiff needs the skill of speaking to others. This includes talking to others to convey information effectively.
- The Bailiff needs the skill of reading comprehensive. This includes understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- The Bailiff needs the skill in critical thinking. This includes using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- The Bailiff needs the skill of learning strategies which includes the ability to select and use training methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- The Bailiff needs the skill of monitoring others which includes assessing performance of you, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- The Bailiff needs the skill of active learning. This includes understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision making.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted while doing their job function.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to speak clearly so others can understand their instructions or information that is being given.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to identify and understanding the speech of another person.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to see details at a distance.
- The Bailiff needs the ability of both deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning. This includes the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense and the ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to find a relationship among seemingly unrelated events.
- The Bailiff needs the ability to identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
