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Juvenile Corrections Officer

Requirements (Education, Experience, Licensure, Certification):

  • High school diploma or GED or have at least 1 year of full-time equivalent paid or volunteer experience direct provision of care to children.
  • Must be physically able to provide individual and group control monitoring of residents' behavior.
  • Must be age 21 or older.
  • Must pass extensive background screening process, including a drug screen and polygraph exam
Preferred Qualifications:

  • 1 year of work experience working with delinquent youth in the supervision of activities.
  • Possession of valid driver's license and auto liability insurance preferred. 
Special Working Conditions and/or Hazards:

  • Employees work indoors and are protected from weather conditions or contaminants, but not necessarily occasional temperature changes.
  • Secure correctional facility, with some exposure to unruly and, at time, out-of-control resident populations.
Job Duties:

  • Provide a safe and secure environment for residents, through active behavior management of residents' living arrangements within a unit setting to assure safety and well-being consistent with assessed risk levels.
  • Monitors residents assuring safety and well-being consistent with assessed risk level. 
  • Maintains the unit and living areas in clean and orderly fashion through teaching skills and supervises residents on work details, recreation activities in the pod and in the gym.
  • Escorts new admissions around the unit and advises residents of their room assignments.
  • Clearly explains the responsibilities of youth living on the unit to new admissions.
  • Refers residents for Psychology evaluations and handles residents' daily medical requests in a confidential manner. 
  • Counsels for crisis intervention on individual or group basis. 
  • Provides verbal and written assessment of residents' behavior.
  • Physically participate in and successfully complete all required in-service training, including, but not limited to, CPR, First Aid, Response to Resistance techniques, etc.