SUBSTITUTE/PART-TIME JUVENILE SUPERVISION OFFICER, Juvenile Services

About the Role

Provides a safe, secure, and positive environment for juveniles detained in the Juvenile Detention Center. Supervises the activities of juveniles to meet their educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic child care needs. Oversees family visitation and documents juveniles' daily behavior and adaptation to a supervised setting.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe, secure, and positive environment while addressing the educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic needs of each detainee.
• Provides individual and group counseling for detainees.
• Enforces discipline for rule violations and restrains youth who are out of control.
• Intervenes in aggressive and self-injurious behaviors using crisis intervention, counseling, and physical/mechanical restraint.
• Supervises personal grooming, hygiene, and housekeeping tasks of detained youth.
• Ensures security through regular population and material accounting, as well as searches of juveniles and the facility for contraband.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ninety (90) college hours required.
• Must obtain Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer certification within six (6) months of hire.
• Current First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint certifications with annual renewal.
• 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

Regularly required to walk, sit, stand, bend, stoop, and lift. Exposure to communicable and contagious diseases. Potential for physical and mechanical restraint situations involving violent and self-destructive juveniles.