Clinical Security Officer I - Wheat Ridge Regional Center

About the role

This position is open to current Colorado residents only. The Wheat Ridge Regional Center is part of the Office of Adult, Aging and Disability Services. This work unit provides comprehensive services and support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, focusing on safety, security, and active learning environments.

Responsibilities

• Ensures safety and security for ICF/IID facilities throughout the community.
• Completes daily documentation for all areas assigned, including entering into databases, Therap, and emailing team members.
• Notifies appropriate team members or agency personnel when observations are made that conflict with, are counterproductive to the Individual Program Plan, or compromise safety.
• May need to drive to numerous sites daily and interface with a variety of staff and individuals.
• Observes and completes documentation at the work sites to ensure timeliness and accuracy of recording bed checks, programs, security, phone and key check-out, and other documentation as necessary.
• Directs the milieu management onsite and responds promptly to individuals in crisis.
• Affords verbal de-escalation techniques; performs approved physical interventions, utilizing the least restrictive measures possible; assists in searching for individuals who have eloped and returning them safely to the facility or transporting to/from hospital, correctional facility, etc.; and searches the facility for dangerous objects, contraband, weapons, etc., and removing/storing safely when needed.
• Utilizes training provided in order to redirect an aggressive individual and to maintain a safe and orderly environment, ensuring the environment is safe so that individuals and agency staff are free from harm.
• Routinely interfaces with law enforcement and or adult protective services regarding individuals when needed.
• Provides supervision and ensures safety in accordance with individual behavioral programs.
• Makes recommendations based on observations to the teams regarding individual behavior program development, safety protocols, programming, and milieu management.
• Employs approved crisis management curriculum to keep individuals, staff, and the community safe.
• Makes recommendations based on observations to the teams regarding individual behavior program development, safety protocols, programming, and milieu management.
• Monitors and recognizes unsafe situations in the milieu. When unsafe situations are identified, this position is responsible for correcting the situation, notifying the appropriate team members, and reporting safety concerns to the supervisor.
• Works in the homes to provide aggressive, consistent, and specialized implementation of a 24-hour, individualized plan designed to help individuals achieve safe behavior, maximum independence and prevent functional regression through training, services, and skill building.
• Provides supervision and support in all activities of daily living (ADL).
• Transports (drives) and provides supervision and support for individuals while transporting them to their day program/work site, medical appointments, court hearings, and/or community activities.
• Protects the rights of persons served and enhances their quality of life.
• Assesses the safety and security of the environment at all times, while adhering to the Individual Program Plan.
• Implements preference assessments and skill acquisition programs to promote learning opportunities for individuals supported.

Requirements

• High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED).
• SBON (State Board of Nursing) Licensed Psychiatric Technician LPT), Qualified Medication Administration Personnel (QMAP) or equivalent required for this position.

Qualifications

• College education in a behavioral health, psychology, and/or criminal justice-related field.
• Experience working with adjudicated and/or detained adults within a secure residential facility, residential health setting and/or a behavioral health setting;
• Experience working with adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities;
• Experience working with adult with mental illness;
• Experience facilitating psychoeducational groups;
• Education/experience working with adults who have trauma;
• Experience working with adults in positive leadership roles, such as mentoring and coaching;
• Experience utilizing verbal de-escalation and motivational techniques;
• Relevant years of state service experience.

Skills

• Skilled in conflict management.
• Strong work ethic, integrity, and dependability.
• Self-control, composure, and the ability to manage stressful situations.
• Ability to verbally communicate clearly and willingness to do so respectfully.
• Ability to identify and act on changes, inappropriate activity, hazards or potential security breaches and verbally communicate pertinent information.
• Ability to study information and recount events in a written, factual, concise, and legible method.

Benefits

CDHS employees (all Direct contact with vulnerable persons): CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference Checks, Professional License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, PREA (Division of Youth Services), Trails check (direct contact with children), CAPS (direct contact with adults – Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers, Veterans Community Living Centers)

Pay

Salary range: $19.00 - $26.00 per hour.

Schedule

24/7 schedule is required.