INSTITUTIONAL PROBATION OFFICER, Juvenile Services - MALE only

Summary

• Provide a safe, secure and positive environment for juveniles detained in the Juvenile Detention Center.
• Supervise the activities of juveniles in the course of meeting their educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic child care needs.
• Supervise family visitation and documents juveniles' behavior and adaptation to a secure, supervised setting on a daily basis.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains safe, secure and positive environment, while meeting the educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic needs of each detainee
• Provides individual and group counseling for detainees
• Provides discipline when detainees violate rules and may restrain youth who are out of control
• Intervenes in aggressive and self-injurious behaviors with crisis intervention, counseling, and physical and mechanical restraint
• Supervises the personal grooming, hygienic activities and housekeeping tasks of detained youth
• Maintains security of residents and facility through regular accounting of population and materials as well as search of juveniles
• Conducts facility-wide and personal searches for contraband
• Performs all other related duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

NOTE : YOU MUST FILL OUT THE WORK HISTORY and EDUCATION SECTIONS OF APPLICATION TO SHOW YOU HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION AS REQUIRED BY HIRING DEPARTMENT OR BE DISQUALIFIED.

• TO APPLY, must have a Bachelor's degree or higher + 1,750 hours of work experience in casework, counseling, community or group work or related experience in a social service, community, corrections, or juvenile agency that deals with offenders or disadvantaged persons required.
• TO APPLY, must have a Bachelor's degree or higher + One (1) year full-time graduate study (30 hours) in criminology, corrections, counseling, law, social work, psychology or a related field .
• TO APPLY, must have a valid Driver License and proof of automobile liability insurance. Note : A Texas driver license is required to hold the position.

Applicants who graduate from a foreign school must present written documentation that validates their education as meeting the standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) from a Texas Juvenile Justice Department approved service.

• Ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Detention Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

If hired, must provide proof of educational attainment

at New Hire Processing or during the promotional process.