Direct Care Specialist - Part-time

Duties/Responsibilities

• Supervise and interact positively with juveniles in assigned activities
• Direct and supervise the movement of juveniles
• Provide direct support for volunteers, interns, parents, visitors and service personnel
• Ensure compliance with program rules, policies and procedures
• Carry out daily assignments
• Ensure quality and timeliness of program schedule
• Facilitate extra curricula activity sessions
• Counsel juvenile during outbursts of emotion/aggression
• Mediate disputes between juvenile
• Supervise recreational periods
• Conduct room searches
• Conduct frisk searches or strip searches pursuant to policy and procedure
• Ensure safety, health and security standards are upheld
• Transport juvenile to and from temporary releases
• Maintain control pursuant to crisis prevention training to protect self, staff and juvenile
• Operate electronic security system
• Supervise visitation
• Screen for contraband
• Receive and process juvenile into facility
• Monitor hygiene practices
• Observe and report illness or injury
• Assist in self-administration of medications
• Administer first aid
• Supervise and assist juvenile in the cleaning
• Prepare and maintain records and reports on resident activities, critical incidents, behavior and progress
• Maintain written logs
• Ensure accuracy/neatness of documentation

Qualifications

• High School degree or GED equivalency
• Or Associate’s Degree in counseling, social work, sociology, corrections, humanities or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience with juvenile and/or juvenile offenders sufficient to perform the job duties as listed above
• Satisfactory completion of professional references check
• Satisfactory completion of criminal background check
• Satisfactory completion of sexual risk assessment
• Satisfactory completion of Ohio Attorney General Offender Search
• Completion of a drug screening
• Affirmative duty to report prior and/or current misconduct
• Confirmation of valid Ohio driver’s license
• Confirmation of degrees, licenses and/or certificates