Group Supervisor, Nights, Probation

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES

• Ensures for the care and safety of probation youth during normal nighttime sleeping hours.
• Makes periodic rounds of the living unit to verify the presence of all probation youth assigned and to guard against problems such as fires.
• Maintains order and security in the living unit and investigates unusual sounds and occurrences.
• Takes appropriate action to prevent escapes, rule infractions, or other disturbances and observes and records the behavior and actions of individual probation youth and comforts or disciplines as necessary.
  
  Inspects bedding to prevent misuse and ensure safety, and monitors ventilation and heating levels in the living unit to maintain a comfortable environment.
• Ensures that injured or ill probation youth obtain nursing or medical attention.
• Carries out standard procedures for the admission or release of probation youth including orientation to the facility and assignment to living quarters.
• Supervises probation youth on awakening, in dressing, and in preparing their sleeping area for the day.
• Restrains or assists in restraining combative or emotionally disturbed probation youth.
• Keeps records, makes reports, and performs other clerical duties as assigned.
• Transports or prepares probation youth for transportation to medical care facilities, courts or other locations.