Resident Care Specialist

About the role

The Office of Juvenile Affairs is seeking a Resident Care Specialist to provide care, custody, and security for at-risk youth at Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Tecumseh, Oklahoma.

Responsibilities

• Provides security and supervision to adjudicated residents in a variety of situations and activities.
• Performs routine duties in care, custody, education, and treatment of residents.
• Observes, records, and reports health symptoms, behavior, and activity of residents.
• Manages aggressive and non-aggressive behavior through verbal and physical intervention using prescribed and approved techniques.
• Quickly responds to physical assaults, riots, and other emergency situations.
• Conducts count of residents and enforces institutional rules and regulations.
• Maintains security in an assigned area or post.
• Controls movement of residents to and from living quarters for activities and off-campus appointments.
• Maintains order and discipline during programs, meals, and recreation periods.
• Patrols facility grounds, juvenile living quarters and work areas on an assigned shift.
• Checks authorized persons in or out of buildings and grounds area.
• Maintains the physical security of the facility.
• Completes written and/or typed reports on a variety of incidents and residents' behaviors.
• Sends and receives verbal transmissions over a hand-held radio.
• Maintains a written log of daily facility activities.
• Communicates by telephone with emergency responder agencies in crisis situations.
• Provides safe and secure transport services for OJA custody youth.
• Responsible for GPS monitoring, tracking, inventory and documentation in assigned areas.
• Assists other OJA employees as needed.
• Performs other high risk transportation duties as assigned.

Requirements

• RCS I: At least 21 years of age and high school diploma or equivalent.
• RCS II: Completion of thirty semester hours from an accredited college or university, or one year of security experience.
• Work schedule: Subject to shift work, willing to work any shift as needed.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of security methods.
• Knowledge of basic human physical and psychological needs.
• Knowledge of basic first aid methods.
• Knowledge of crisis intervention techniques.
• Knowledge of simple health and safety precautions.
• Knowledge of behavioral problems typically found in delinquent residents.
• Knowledge of methods and practices of household management.
• Knowledge of environments and events that impact the problems of youth in custody.
• Knowledge of state statutes and agency policies concerning care of residents in secure facilities.

Skills

• Ability to interact with juveniles.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
• Ability to gather facts and effectively communicate those facts in reports.
• Ability to positively interact with residents of various racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to remain alert and act quickly and appropriately in emergency situations.
• Ability to physically and appropriately handle escapees and violent or unruly juvenile residents.
• Ability to exercise good judgment in the evaluation of situations and in making decisions.

Benefits

• $5,000 SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE.
• $6,000 CONTINUOUS SERVICE BONUS AVAILABLE.
• SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL AVAILABLE - Earn an additional $2.50/hour Shift Differential Opportunities.

Pay

• RCS I: $19.23 an hour.
• RCS II: $21.63 an hour.

Schedule

• 1st Shift: 6:00am to 2:00pm.
• 2nd Shift: 2:00pm to 10:00pm.
• 3rd Shift: 10:00pm to 6:00am.