Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 (JRO2) on-call - Snoqualmie

State of Washington•King County – Snoqualmie, WA

13h•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is accepting applications for a Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 to join our team at Echo Glen Children’s Center to provide security and safety services for residents, staff, and visitors in our juvenile rehabilitation residential facility. You will assist counselors on the floor, be a positive role model to our youth residents, intervene, if necessary, when conflicts arise, and ultimately, ensure a safe and secure environment for our youth to learn new ways of relating to themselves and others, and prosper. You will learn about the Juvenile Rehabilitation philosophy and treatment model, which will prepare you for a variety of career advancement opportunities as you support rehabilitative programming for our youth. This job is a director/mentor for JRO1 security staff.

Requirements

One year as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 1.
One year of relevant experience (full-time equivalency) in counseling, criminal justice, juvenile justice, education, psychology, sociology, behavioral health, or social service.
The ability to take action to learn and grow.
The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
Two years of college will substitute for one year of experience.
One year (full-time equivalency) of demonstrated work experience or volunteer work (for JRO1 level).
The ability to take action to learn and grow (for JRO1 level).
The ability to take action to meet the needs of others (for JRO1 level).
Two years of college will substitute for one year of experience (for JRO1 level).
At least two years of driving experience and a valid driver’s license.

Nice To Haves

Two or more years of experience in the areas of work such as: social services, youth group activities, security guard, correctional officer, police officer, police reserve officer, military police, or other law enforcement work; or a certificate of completion in a basic law enforcement training program approved by the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) or, a certificate of completion in a police or reserve police academy or military training program.
Understanding of adolescent development and juvenile rehabilitation practices and principles.
Experience providing cognitive/behavioral therapeutic interventions.
Competency in relating to clients from diverse backgrounds and cultural groups.
Knowledge of basic juvenile correctional system, rehabilitation objectives in juvenile institutions, basic interviewing and counseling theories and techniques, basic concepts, fundamentals, and principles of individual and group behaviors, introductory psychology of deviant behavior, and crisis intervention methods and techniques.
Ability to obtain pertinent information during interviews, assist in rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, apply rules, regulations, and procedures, appraise situations, and remain calm and in control in crisis situations and deescalate situations.
Ability to speak and write clearly, establish and maintain effective working relationships.

Responsibilities

Proactively maintain awareness of verbal and written information from previous shifts.
Operate communication devices such as two-way radio, and telephone.
Recognize and assess problem situations and immediately responds to emergent situations.
Assess youth behavior for risk to self and others.
Supervise youth during administration of prescription and non-prescription medications.
Monitor and supervise youth at all times, and intervene by using Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) approved methods and techniques for verbal de-escalation, physical control and/or restraints as necessary to restore safety and order.
Conduct routine and random security duties including perimeter, grounds, building checks, headcounts, Suicide Precaution Level (SPL) checks, key control, room searches for contraband and pat/frisk and strip searches according to policy.
Escort/supervises youth during facility movements and appointments.
Perform basic data and retrieval functions using computerized system, and input incident reports and client tracking into the Automated Client Tracking (ACT) system.