Senior Juvenile Correctional Officer V - 50809

(Brownwood)

Job Description:

• Performs highly complex (senior-level) work overseeing correctional staff who provide direct care to juveniles in a correctional residential facility.
• Provides supervision and direct care for youth in a residential correctional facility, supervises other Juvenile Correctional Officers during shifts, and ensures the safety and security of youth and staff.  
• 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.  
• Responds appropriately to youth grievances.  
• May act as Campus Shift Administrator.

Qualifications:

Pay Range:

Job Order #16883466