Juvenile Detention Counselor

The City of Virginia Beach is seeking to hire part time, on-call Juvenile Detention Counselors to perform meaningful professional and administrative work in the supervision and counseling of Juveniles in the detention program on assigned shift. Must be able to work various shifts (days/evenings/midnights) including weekends and holidays as needed to meet operational needs.

Duties:

• Supervise residents in Juvenile detention program, and assign and supervise youth in daily light housekeeping tasks.

• Adhere to Juvenile Detention policies, procedures, safety, and security measures within facility.

• Respond to bizarre, aggressive, suicidal and combative behavior and set verbal and physical limitations.

• Assess resident needs and develop service plans.

• Conduct appropriate counseling of program participants.

• Accurately maintain paperwork associated with service plans and behavioral evaluations.

• Establish rapport with juveniles while maintaining authority.

• Set verbal and physical limitations during instances of aggressive, suicidal or combative behavior.

• Perform searches, monitor showering activities and resident sleeping rooms. Maintain daily log.

• Conduct educational/life skills groups. May perform intake/releases.

• Perform control room duties.

• Prepare behavioral evaluation summaries for pertinent affiliated agencies.

• Position requires CPR, First Aid and Crisis Intervention Certificate.