Unit Manager - Chehalis

Our vision is to ensure that “Washington state’s children and youth grow up safe and healthy—thriving physically, emotionally and academically, nurtured by family and community.”

We have one full-time and one temporary opportunity.

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is looking for a Juvenile Rehabilitation Living Unit Manager to oversee all aspects of a 24/7 institution living unit at Green Hill School, a Juvenile Rehabilitation maximum security facility that provides treatment and reentry programming services for younger offenders.  to learn more about DCYF.

As a Juvenile Rehabilitation Living Unit Manager, you will oversee treatment, transition and reentry programming, and services provided to residents, including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Substance Use Disorder (SUD), youth with a sex offense, mental health, education/vocation, and work-based learning. You will use your expertise to support effective communication throughout the organization and the community and assure the highest standards of ethical conduct.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply today and see all that DCYF has to offer!

• Administer all aspects of a maximum/medium security institution facility residential program for youth and young adults committed to JR.
• Develop and maintain staffing plan to most effectively utilize resources.
• Administer, manage, supervise and direct staff.
• Model professional standards of conduct and enforce state standards for ethics and use of state resource.
• Maintain communication with leadership and staff.
• Collaborate and communicate with identified liaison with Department of-Corrections (DOC).
• Train, coach, mentor, motivate and model performance.
• Maintain adherence to both internal and external audit requirements and ensures corrective action plans and facility improvement plans are completed and implemented in a timely manner to include: PREA, PbS, NCCHC, DCYF Safety Management, and Department of Health (DOH).
• Implement and provide oversight of evidence and research based, family-oriented treatment services.

An equivalent combination of education and professional experience in casework, counseling, probation and parole, social services, planning, directing, and/or facilitation youth group activities totaling eight (8) years

OR

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education, in Public Administration, Social Sciences or a closely allied field, and four years of professional experience.

OR

Master's degree in public administration, Social Sciences or a closely allied field, and three years of professional experience.

OR

Two years as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Supervisor or Juvenile Rehabilitation Coordinator.

• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

The incumbent must possess expertise in providing services to youth and young adults and have an understanding of adolescent development; at-risk behavior; principles/techniques and trends in juvenile rehabilitation. Incumbent should also possess knowledge of juvenile risk and protective factors; evidence/researched based intervention programs that reduce recidivism; JR's Integrated Treatment Model including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Functional Family Parole/Therapy; principles of supervision and treatment of Substance Use Disorder (SUD), youth with a sex-offense and/or mental health issues;

principles of casework practices, management, public administration and supervision. Familiarity with Human Resource specifications;
Washington State Juvenile Justice Act;
Washington Administrative Code and Revised Code of Washington as it pertains to juveniles: DCYF Administrative Policies; JR Policies; case law and the Collective Bargaining Master Agreement.

• Preference will be given to supervisory experience with residential…