Juvenile Corrections Officer (4060-40) - Multiple Positions

Juvenile Corrections Officer (4060-40) - Multiple Positions

Deadline to Apply: July 5, 2024

Work Location:

Youth Center

2020 Auburn Avenue

Cincinnati, Ohio 45219

Work Hours: 40 Hours/Week (Various Shifts)

Starting Salary: $24.00 Hourly

What we are looking for:

• Provide safe and secure supervision and care to youth who are in a secure juvenile detention

• Serve as a role model, mentor, and guide

• Work as part of a team to support positive and healthy youth development

• Manage conflict and youth behavior safely, including using de-escalation and physical intervention techniques as necessary

• Provide structure and engage youth in pro-social activities and behaviors

• Support youth in their efforts to develop new social, academic, and vocational skills and interests

• Receive valuable training on building healthy relationships with youth and crisis prevention and management

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.

• Physically participate in and successfully complete all required in-service training, including, but not limited to, CPR, First Aid, Response to Resistance techniques, etc.

• Must be age 21 or older.

• Must pass background screening process.

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.

• Diversion, Equity and Inclusion experience.

Job Duties:

• Role model healthy and respectful interpersonal interactions

• Encourage and provide a safe and secure environment for residents by fostering community and utilizing active behavior management.

• Monitors residents assuring safety and well-being consistent with assessed risk level.

• Helps create and maintain strong morale and a feeling of belonging in his/her team.

• Educates youth on how to maintain the unit and living areas in clean and orderly fashion by teaching skills and supervising residents on work details and recreation activities in the pod and in the gym.

• Escorts new admissions around the unit and advises residents of their room assignments and responsibilities.

• 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.

• Must be physically able to provide individual and group control monitoring of residents' behavior.

Summary of KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES required for the position:

• Maturity to encourage youth to better themselves and have healthy interactions in this unique environment.

• Ability to organize Unit activities according to established priorities; Ability to use crisis intervention counseling skills to resolve situations.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of residents' healthcare issues.

• Interpersonal skills requiring judgment and tact to communicate effectively with residents who are engaged in acting out behavior; ability to work as a team with coworkers.

• Ability to physically participate in training and use approved physical intervention techniques such as blocks for personal protection, body hold techniques, arm hold techniques, and take downs, when necessary; must be active and ambulatory to respond to need for supervision, monitoring and behavior management.

• Ability to observe, identify and monitor closely unusual or escalating behavior patterns; ability to provide auditory and visual monitoring of youth in assigned rooms.

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.

NOTE:

• Applicants for positions with Hamilton County Juvenile Court are subject to background screening. Recognizing the unique expertise those who have had interactions with the criminal legal system bring to the table, the court will consider all applicants which are 10 years out from any Felony serve out and 3 years out from any Misdemeanor serve out.

• Hamilton County Juvenile Court is an Equal Opportunity Employer. A copy of the Equal employment Opportunity Plan Short Form is available to any person upon request. Please contact the Human Resources Department at 513-946-9238.

• Hamilton County Juvenile Court is committed to providing a Diverse, Equity, and Inclusive work environment.