Community Specialist - Beaufort County

About the role

Mission: It is the mission of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to impact and transform young lives, strengthen families, and support safer communities through targeted prevention and rehabilitation.

Job Purpose: Entry level specialist position that provides case management coordination services to include assessment, interviewing, planning, monitoring, advocacy, direct supervision, and intervention of youth referred to the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary case manager for youth referred to DJJ through diversion, intake, probation, or parole supervision.
• Interviews juveniles, family members and any service providers servicing the youth to assess juveniles’ level of functioning, strengths, and needs.
• Monitors juvenile for compliance with court orders.
• Provides alternatives to incarceration through the use of graduated responses and STAP.
• Serves as on-call agent on rotation.
• Provide a comprehensive plan of supervision for the assigned youth to include diversion, intake, probation