Correctional Youth Security Officer I Night Shift- Gilliam Youth Service Center.

About the role

This work unit exists to provide for the direct care, safety, and security of pre-adjudicated or adjudicated youth in the Division of Youth Services custody using a trauma-responsive approach. The unit exists to provide 24-hour, seven-day-a-week care and supervision of youth in secure residential placement covering work assignments ranging from Admissions and Control, school and day programming, and detention, assessment, and commitment (long-term treatment) living units.

Responsibilities

• Work involves providing direct care, safety, security, and supervision of adjudicated and/or pre-adjudicated youth in a secure setting.
• Monitor, participate, support, and enforce behavioral management plans for individual youth as directed (e.g. Behavioral Contracts, Individual Growth and Change Plans).
• Supervise youth or group of youth, supervision of daily activities, youth orientation, intervention in crisis situations, non-escalation, de-escalation, use of physical response/restraint in emergency situations, debriefing of all incidents, and conducting searches.
• Actively and with positive engagement, implement and follow the Youth Center’s behavioral management program, teach, coach, and redirect youth within the program.
• Support DYS initiatives and strategies as they relate to youth programming and crisis intervention.
• Document observations of youth behavior and response to program(s) and document all unit activities and required information in appropriate logs and records systems.
• Document all youth group activities in appropriate database systems.
• Through all communications and behaviors demonstrate, support, and contribute to a healthy, positive, and respectful cultural climate throughout the Youth Center by adhering to our organizational values of Nonviolence, Open Communication, Social Responsibility, Growth and Change, Social Learning, Democracy, and Emotional Intelligence.

Requirements

• Education and Experience: High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED).
• Substitutions: None.
• These positions are not sedentary positions. Employees are typically on their feet during the entire shift. Youth living quarters are located on multiple levels and employees must frequently climb stairs in the performance of job duties.

Qualifications

• Employees must also be willing and able to physically intervene with assaultive youth.

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

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package!

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Rotating shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.