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Juvenile Correctional Officer III / IV / V

(Brownwood)

Job Description:

• Provides supervision and direct care for youth in a residential correctional facility
• Works to help youth to achieve progress in learning and applying methods to identify and manage reactions to stress and trauma and react in more socially appropriate ways
• 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 both maintain appropriate structure and exercise understanding of brain development in youth with complex trauma 

Job Functions: 

• Engages in competency-based training in the techniques and capabilities needed to coach youth under the Texas Model of trauma-informed corrections
• Holds youth accountable in ways that fit the level of behavior, seeking to help youth to learn socially acceptable responses and approaches
• 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
• Practices and models appropriate self-regulation skills and is able to remain calm during times of stress and crisis

Job Abilities:

• Maintain healthy and engaging relationships with youth while maintaining appropriate boundaries important for healthy development
• Work with youth in an empathetic and understanding manner with sustained positive interactions
• Communicate effectively with youth to foster youth cooperation in the treatment process
• Remain alert, observant, and physically able to respond appropriately to work situations or emergencies including, but not limited to, physical restraint of youth
• Learn verbal and physical crisis intervention/de-escalation techniques and emergency treatment procedures

Salary:

• $3,908.94 - $4,815.77/mn

Job Order #16743568