Juvenile Corrections Officer
Requirements (Education, Experience, Licensure, Certification):
- High school diploma or GED or have at least 1 year of full-time equivalent paid or volunteer experience direct provision of care to children.
- Must be physically able to provide individual and group control monitoring of residents' behavior.
- Must be age 21 or older.
- Must pass extensive background screening process, including a drug screen and polygraph exam
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1 year of work experience working with delinquent youth in the supervision of activities.
- Possession of valid driver's license and auto liability insurance preferred.
Special Working Conditions and/or Hazards:
- Employees work indoors and are protected from weather conditions or contaminants, but not necessarily occasional temperature changes.
- Secure correctional facility, with some exposure to unruly and, at time, out-of-control resident populations.
Job Duties:
- Provide a safe and secure environment for residents, through active behavior management of residents' living arrangements within a unit setting to assure safety and well-being consistent with assessed risk levels.
- Monitors residents assuring safety and well-being consistent with assessed risk level.
- Maintains the unit and living areas in clean and orderly fashion through teaching skills and supervises residents on work details, recreation activities in the pod and in the gym.
- Escorts new admissions around the unit and advises residents of their room assignments.
- Clearly explains the responsibilities of youth living on the unit to new admissions.
- Refers residents for Psychology evaluations and handles residents' daily medical requests in a confidential manner.
- Counsels for crisis intervention on individual or group basis.
- Provides verbal and written assessment of residents' behavior.
- Physically participate in and successfully complete all required in-service training, including, but not limited to, CPR, First Aid, Response to Resistance techniques, etc.