What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Supervision at Correctional Facility position at Texas Juvenile Justice Department?
Hiring Event on November 18th from 10 am to 2 pm at the Workforce Solutions Center located at 1416 South New Road, Waco.
On the spot interviews and conditional job offers! No experience necessary. We train. http://www.tjjd.texas.gov
Provides supervision and direct care for youth in a residential correctional facility. Uses appropriate intervention methods in response to behavioral issues that seeks to aid in learning and correcting behavior.
Maintains a consistent effort to ensure safe environments and employs security measures when youth, staff, or others are in danger. Interacts and engages with youth in ways that maintain appropriate structure.
Maintains healthy relationships and boundaries with youth.
Work involves facilitating youth rehabilitation, supervising youth, and coaching their personal development.
Uses good judgment in determining when safety is at risk and higher levels of intervention are required.
Helps youth to identify their responses to stress, fear, and other triggers and works with the youth to learn ways to increase emotional self-regulation skills.
Provides services to potentially aggressive/combative youth in a correctional setting with a wide variety of temperaments (volatile, mentally ill, suicidal) and specialized needs (chemically dependent, sexual offenders, emotionally disturbed, etc.).
Physically restrains and secures, if necessary, sometimes aggressive youth and participates in follow up debriefing conversations to assess the relationship and determine alternative strategies to avoid future physical restraints.
Maintains security in buildings, grounds, and other posts; intervenes during emergencies or altercations to prevent escapes and protect the safety of all youth.
Supervises assigned youth during all of their daily activities, including on the dorm, at school, during meals, and other activities; manages all movements between activities; conducts periodic headcounts; ensures youth engage in required activities; and transfers and transports youth, on foot, in vehicles, and other forms of transportation.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Pay: $3,019.83 - $3,770.83 per month
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: One location