Correctional Support Trade Supervisor I at Platte Valley Youth Services Center.

This announcement is open to Colorado residents only.

About the Division of Youth Services

The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides a continuum of residential and non-residential services that encompass juvenile detention, commitment and parole. DYS is the agency statutorily mandated to provide for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of the Colorado Department of Human Services. The Division operates ten secure facilities that serve youth between the ages of 10 and 21, who are pre-adjudicated, sentenced, or committed. The Division also contracts with numerous private residential and non-residential service providers throughout the State.

For pre-adjudicated youth, the Division is also responsible for the management and oversight of Senate Bill 91-94; a State-funded, locally administered program that provides services to youth at risk of further progressing into the juvenile justice system. In addition to residential programming, the Division administers juvenile parole services throughout the State.

Division of Youth Services Vision

Achieving Youth Success and Safer Colorado Communities.

Division of Youth Services Mission

It is the mission of the Division of Youth Services to protect, restore and improve public safety utilizing a continuum of care that provides effective supervision, promotes accountability to victims and communities, and helps youth lead constructive lives through positive youth development.

Division of Youth Services Strategic Goal

The Division will operate safe, healthy trauma-responsive organizational environments as demonstrated through prosocial, non-violent interactions between staff and youth, youth and youth and staff and staff.

About the Role

The purpose of the work unit is to provide a statewide continuum of services and programs to access, treat, and control youth placed in its care for delinquent behavior. This position performs fully operational work in the DYC food services department and has supervisory responsibility for youth participating in a food services work program.

Responsibilities

• Youth Supervision: Provide direct care, safety, security and supervision of adjudicated and/or pre-adjudicated youth in a locked setting to include the on-site kitchen.
• Meal Preparation and Service: Ensure that food is properly prepared, attractive, appetizing and of proper temperatures. Follow menus and recipes or ensure that youth follow menus and recipes in order to comply with the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program and DYC policies and procedures.
• Safety and Security:
  • Anticipate and recognize potential and real safety and security hazards.
  • Ensure that food service equipment is properly utilized.
  • Enforce good safety practices to reduce slips, trips, falls, burns, etc.
  • Ensure that knives and/or culinary utensils are inventoried according to facility procedures to prevent loss.
  • Ensure that doors are kept locked to prevent escapes.
  • Follow facility key procedures.
  • Ensure that chemicals are stored and used properly.
  • Train staff and youth on fire prevention and evacuation procedures.
• Sanitation:
  • Ensure that the proper sanitation procedures are followed to include any documentation and recording of the jobs assigned.
  • Ensure that food services equipment and the physical plant of the kitchen are cleaned on a regular basis as assigned to keep them free of food particles, dust and bacteria.
• Inventory Control:
  • Assist in taking a physical count of the inventory at least once a month.
  • Inspect food and food service supplies for accurate quantity and condition upon arrival to the facility; rejects food and supplies that are inadequate.
  • Store raw food and food supplies utilizing a FIFO inventory method.
• Training and Meetings:
  • Attend and actively participate in all assigned training and successfully complete any/all testing or other requirements for such training.
  • Maintain required certifications as required.
• Educate Youth:
  • Assist with the facilitation of the culinary program curriculum.
  • Instruct youth on food service tasks by reviewing information in relevant manuals, textual materials and watching and discussing food service videos, etc.
  • Administer written and practical exams and tests relevant to the culinary program.
  • Responsible for grading tests, evaluating youth's performance and documenting their progress through written, electronic and/or personal communication.

Requirements

• Education: High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED).
• Experience: Four (4) years of professional experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience supervising youth in a work study or culinary arts program within a residential child care institution.
• Proficient in Word and Excel.
• Supervisory experience.

Conditions of Employment

• Must be 21 years old or older.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Colorado driver's license.
• Ability to work on-call to cover during employee call outs.
• May be required to work breakfast, lunch, dinner shift.
• May be required to handle hazardous material (cleaning agents used in the kitchen).
• May require floating to other DYS Facilities to help with coverage, travel to meetings and trainings.
• Continued employment is contingent upon successful completion of the DYS Pre-service Training Academy, Field Training Program and mandatory annual training.
• Must pass a Colorado Bureau of Investigations and Federal Bureau of Investigations background check. Included in the background check is a current and/or previous employer check. Your current and/or previous employers within the past 10 years must be listed on your job application (most recent in descending order), even if the job or duties are unrelated to the position for which you are applying. Incomplete employer information or omission of former employers may result in a disqualification of your application.
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Benefits

In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans.
• Medical and dental health plans.
• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account.
• Paid life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave.
• BenefitHub state employee discount program.
• Employee Wellness program MotivateMe.
• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more.
• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions.
• Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs.