Officer, Substitute/Part-time Juvenile Supervision - Female applicants only

Essential Duties And 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, 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
• Copies facility-wide and personal searches for contraband
• Performs all other related duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

• Ninety (90) college hours required
• Must obtain Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer certification within six (6) months of hire
• Must have First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal of certification
• Valid Texas Driver's License and proof of automobile liability insurance
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred

Physical Demands And Work Environment & Other Requirements

• While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is regularly required to walk, sit, stand, bend, stoop and lift
• Exposure to communicable and contagious diseases
• Potential for physical and mechanical restraint situations involving juveniles who are violent and self-destructive