Youth Services Specialist I - Betty K. Marler - All Female Youth Services Center.

About the role

This position is a direct care/essential role that provides direct and engaging supervision of Youth in DYS State Operated Secure Facilities. Specific duties and expectations are: Safety/Security, Youth Center Programming, Documentation/Recording and Reporting, Training, and Organizational Accountability.

Responsibilities

• Work involves providing direct care, safety, security, and supervision of adjudicated and/or pre-adjudicated youth in a secure setting.
• Monitor, participate, support, and enforce behavioral management plans for individual youth as directed (e.g. Behavioral Contracts, Individual Growth and Change Plans).
• Supervise youth or group of youth, supervision of daily activities, youth orientation, intervention in crisis situations, non-escalation, de-escalation, use of physical response/restraint in emergency situations, debriefing of all incidents, and conducting searches.
• Actively and with positive engagement, implement and follow the Youth Center’s behavioral management program, teach, coach, and redirect youth within the program.
• Support DYS initiatives and strategies as they relate to youth programming and crisis intervention.
• Document observations of youth behavior and response to program(s) and document all unit activities and required information in appropriate logs and records systems.
• Document all youth group activities in appropriate database systems.
• Through all communications and behaviors demonstrate, support, and contribute to a healthy, positive, and respectful cultural climate throughout the Youth Center by adhering to our organizational values of Nonviolence, Open Communication, Social Responsibility, Growth and Change, Social Learning, Democracy, and Emotional Intelligence.
• Adhere to the CDHS Code of Conduct, DYS Compliance Review Standards, and CDHS and DYS policies.

  Requirements

  • Safety/Security: Work involves providing direct care, safety, security, and supervision of adjudicated and/or pre-adjudicated youth in a secure setting.
  • Youth Center Programming: Actively and with positive engagement, implement and follow the Youth Center’s behavioral management program, teach, coach, and redirect youth within the program.
  • Documentation/Recording and Reporting: Document observations of youth behavior and response to program(s) and document all unit activities and required information in appropriate logs and records systems.
  • Training: Complete DYS Pre-Service training academy, Youth Center training, and orientation process as a new employee.
  • Organizational Accountability: Through all communications and behaviors demonstrate, support, and contribute to a healthy, positive, and respectful cultural climate throughout the Youth Center by adhering to our organizational values of Nonviolence, Open Communication, Social Responsibility, Growth and Change, Social Learning, Democracy, and Emotional Intelligence.
  • Success will come through the development of healthy, positive relationships supported by creating a trauma responsive environment.
  • Education: High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED).

    Qualifications

    • Substitutions: None
    • Experience: Working with adjudicated and/or detained youth within a secure residential facility and/or a behavioral health setting; Experience facilitating psychoeducational groups; Education/experience working with adolescents who have trauma; Experience working with youth in positive leadership roles, such as mentoring and coaching. Experience utilizing verbal de-escalation and motivational techniques.
    • Years of state service experience.
    • Highly desirable competencies: Skilled in conflict management. Strong work ethic, integrity, and dependability. Sound judgment and decision-making skills. Self-control, composure, and the ability to manage stressful situations. Ability to verbally communicate clearly and willingness to do so respectfully. Ability to identify and act on changes, inappropriate activity, hazards or potential security breaches and verbally communicate pertinent information. Ability to study information and recount events in a written, factual, concise, and legible method.