INSTITUTIONAL PROBATION OFFICER, Juvenile Services (MALE ONLY)

About the role

Maintains safe, secure and positive environment, while meeting the educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic needs of each detainee.

Provides individual and group counseling for detainees.

Provides discipline when detainees violate rules and may restrain youth who are out of control.

Intervenes in aggressive and self-injurious behaviors with crisis intervention, counseling, and physical and mechanical restraint.

Supervises the personal grooming, hygienic activities and housekeeping tasks of detained youth.

Maintains security of residents and facility through regular accounting of population and materials as well as search of juveniles.

Conducts facility-wide and personal searches for contraband.

Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Maintains safe, secure and positive environment, while meeting the educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic needs of each detainee.
• Provides individual and group counseling for detainees.
• Provides discipline when detainees violate rules and may restrain youth who are out of control.
• Intervenes in aggressive and self-injurious behaviors with crisis intervention, counseling, and physical and mechanical restraint.
• Supervises the personal grooming, hygienic activities and housekeeping tasks of detained youth.
• Maintains security of residents and facility through regular accounting of population and materials as well as search of juveniles.
• Conducts facility-wide and personal searches for contraband.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Male applicant required.
• Bachelor's degree or higher AND a minimum of 1,750 hours of work experience in casework, counseling, community or group work or related experience in a social service, community, corrections, or juvenile agency that deals with offenders or disadvantaged persons required.
• OR Bachelor's degree AND One (1) year full-time graduate study (30 hours) in criminology, corrections, counseling, law, social work, psychology or a related field.

Qualifications

• To be considered for this position, your application must be complete and clearly reflect the minimum qualifications.
• Incomplete information in the EDUCATION (including type of degree, field of study, and graduation status), EXPERIENCE, or CERTIFICATION/LICENSE sections may result in disqualification, as eligibility for minimum qualifications cannot be confirmed without complete documentation.

Skills

• Ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Tarrant County employees enjoy superior health, retirement, and insurance benefits & 13 County Holidays.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

N/A

Survey

• Are you a male applicant?
• Which of the following describes your combination of completed degree and minimum years of experience?
• Do you possess a valid Driver License and proof of liability insurance?
• Do you have the ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required?
• Are you bilingual?
• Do you have the ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required?
• Have you had a felony conviction or deferred adjudication against the laws of this state, another state or the United States within the past 10 years?
• Are you currently on felony probation or parole?
• Have you had a jailable misdemeanor conviction or deferred adjudication against the laws of this state, another state or the United States within the past 5 years?
• Are you currently on misdemeanor probation or parole?
• Are you required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Texas Code of Criminal procedure?
• If previously certified as a Juvenile Probation or Detention Officer, is your certification currently under revocation or suspension?
• Have you engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution?
• Have you been convicted of engaging in or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community by force, threat of force, coercion, or where the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse?
• Have you been civilly or administratively adjudicated for or found to have engaged in any of the conduct described in either of the two previous questions?
• Have you ever been civilly or administratively adjudicated, disciplined or had any government issued license revoked or suspended for having engaged in conduct defined as sexual harassment?
• Do you have prior military experience?
• Why do you want this position in the Tarrant County Juvenile Services Department?