Correctional Youth Services Specialist - Platte Valley Youth SC- Greeley

Job Title

This position is only accepting applications for Colorado Residents only

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies (part time and full time) at the location below. Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details!

Physical

Job location:

Platte Valley Youth Services Center 2200 O St. Greeley, CO 80631

You are required to work at your assigned work location during your scheduled work times. This announcement may fill day, night, and swing shifts.

Front End Day

Shift: Sunday-Tuesday and alternating Wednesdays 6am-6:30pm Front End Swing

Shift: Sunday-Tuesday and alternating Wednesdays 10am-10:30pm Front End

Evening Shift: Sunday-Tuesday and alternating Wednesdays 6pm-6:30am Back End Day

Shift: Thursday-Saturday and alternating Wednesdays 6am-6:30pm Back End Swing

Shift: Thursday-Saturday and alternating Wednesday 10am-10:30pm Back End

Evening Shift: Thursday-Saturday and alternating Wednesday 6pm-6:30am

Please note:

These working arrangements are subject to change.

WE WANT TO HIRE YOU IF:

• You have a passion for youth and a desire to improve your community
• You love learning new skills and teaching them to others
• You desire a job that teaches you what safe supervision is all about – physical, social, psychological, and moral
• You thrive on developing healthy relationships, professionalism, and teamwork

About the position. This position is a direct care/essential role that provides direct and engaging supervision of Youth in DYS State Operated Secure Facilities. Specific duties and expectations are:
Safety/Security, Youth Center Programming, Documentation/Recording and Reporting, Training, and Organizational Accountability. Positions may be required to work overtime on a rotating basis, based on business needs.

Duties Include but are not limited to the following:

Safety/Security. Work involves providing direct care, safety, security, and supervision of adjudicated and/or pre-adjudicated youth in a secure setting. Monitor, participate, support, and enforce behavioral management plans for individual youth as directed (e.g. Behavioral Contracts, Individual Growth and Change Plans). Duties include supervision of youth or group of youth, supervision of daily activities, youth orientation, intervention in crisis situations, non-escalation, de-escalation, use of physical response/restraint in emergency situations, debriefing of all incidents, and conducting searches.

Youth Center Programming. Actively and with positive engagement, implement and follow the Youth Center's behavioral management program, teach, coach, and redirect youth within the program. Support DYS initiatives and strategies as they relate to youth programming and crisis intervention.

Documentation/Recording and Reporting. Document observations of youth behavior and response to program(s) and document all unit activities and required information in appropriate logs and records systems. Document all youth group activities in appropriate database systems.

Organizational Accountability. Through all communications and behaviors demonstrate, support, and contribute to a healthy, positive, and respectful cultural climate throughout the Youth Center by adhering to our organizational values of Nonviolence, Open Communication, Social Responsibility, Growth and Change, Social Learning, Democracy, and Emotional Intelligence. Requirement to adhere to the CDHS Code of Conduct, DYS Compliance Review Standards, and CDHS and DYS policies.

Success will come through the development of healthy, positive relationships supported by creating a trauma responsive environment.

Training. Complete DYS Pre-Service training academy, Youth Center training, and orientation process as a new employee. Some travel may be required. Complete all assigned online training, and maintain and support the Division's prevailing behavior management and intervention strategies. Training will help you learn problem-solving, the development of relationships with youth grounded in solid boundaries, how to teach skills to youth to decrease further risk and need, and a better…