JCO II-III-IV - MHTP-CSU-BSU (GNS)

About the role

This position provides supervision and direct care for youth in a residential correctional facility. The role includes helping youth to achieve progress in learning and applying methods to identify and manage reactions to stress and trauma, and reacting in more socially appropriate ways.

Responsibilities

• Works to help youth to achieve progress in learning and applying methods to identify and manage reactions to stress and trauma and react in more socially appropriate ways.
• Uses appropriate intervention methods in response to behavioral issues that seeks to aid in learning and correcting behavior.
• Facilitates unit programming, schedule, and safety protocols.
• Utilizes Texas Model interventions and other trained interventions as provided to help youth improve their overall level of safety, communication, and emotion regulation.
• Maintains a consistent effort to ensure safe environments and employs security measures when youth, staff, or others are in danger.
• Interacts and engages with youth in ways that both maintain appropriate structure and exercise understanding of brain development in youth with complex trauma.
• Maintains healthy relationships and boundaries with youth and consistently recognizes progress and good choices made by youth.
• Facilitates youth rehabilitation, supervises youth, and coaches their personal development in accordance with individualized treatment plans.
• Works assigned shift, is subject to being on-call, and may be required to work in excess of 40 hours per work week.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age and have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Preferred qualifications include a college degree or coursework, experience supervising or providing rehabilitation/treatment services to youth or adults in a treatment program, correctional program, or a residential setting.
• Must be able to remain calm and regulate one's own behavior while helping to serve as a role model for youth who are learning to self-regulate their own behavior.
• Ability to work with youth in an empathetic and understanding manner with sustained positive interactions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with youth to foster youth cooperation in the treatment process.
• Ability to plan and implement youth programs.
• Ability to facilitate group discussions and activities.
• Ability to set limits on youth behaviors when appropriate in a consistent, firm and fair manner.
• Ability to intervene and redirect behavior.
• Ability to appropriately respond to abusive language and behavior in a manner consistent with instructions received in training.
• Ability to remain alert, observant, and physically able to respond appropriately to work situations or emergencies including, but not limited to, physical restraint of youth.
• Ability to learn verbal and physical crisis intervention/de-escalation techniques and emergency treatment procedures.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline.
• Ability to physically restrain youth, when necessary, in a manner consistent with instructions received in training.
• Ability to explain the progress of the youth to their family members and other treatment staff.
• Ability to interpret rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to accept and adapt to changes in assignments, methods, policies, etc.
• Ability to work collaboratively with all stakeholders and maintain a professional, courteous demeanor.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments; and meet deadlines.
• Ability to process information logically, make decisions, and demonstrate the soundness for those decisions.
• Ability to document observations and incidents and maintain written files and records.
• Ability to transport youth and travel as necessary.
• Ability to utilize Texas Model levels of engagement to appropriately intervene with youth.
• Ability to work a variety of shifts, weekends, holidays, and be on-call.
• Ability to work in excess of 40 hours per workweek, and travel, when required.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must not have a conviction or received deferred adjudication for any felony, domestic violence involving a family member, official oppression, current requirement to register as a sex offender, arrest for a disqualifying offense that was not expunged before the statute of limitations expired, outstanding warrant, or other arrests, deferred adjudications, and convictions.

Skills

• Knowledge of safety and security procedures and practices.
• Knowledge of general counseling and guidance techniques with adolescents.
• Knowledge of facility rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of individual and group behavior.
• Knowledge of child development and the role of the family.
• Knowledge of causes of juvenile delinquency and current methods of juvenile offender treatment.

Benefits

Includes promotion opportunity within the TJJD career ladder for Juvenile Correctional Officers, with potential for career advancement based on experience and performance.

Pay

Salary is commensurate with experience and performance.

Schedule

Works assigned shift, is subject to being on-call, and may be required to work in excess of 40 hours per work week. Occasional travel may be required.