JDC Detention Officer - Part-Time

JDC Detention Officer - Part-Time role at Human Resource Department Portage County, Ohio

Employee is responsible for managing, directing, and controlling the behavior of residents in compliance with work rules and guidelines.

• Ensures compliance with all Portage County Juvenile Detention Center (PCJDC) policies/procedures in order to promote a safe, secure, and humane environment for residents and staff.
• Ensures the best possible care, welfare, and security of PCJDC residents utilizing behavior management techniques that promote prosocial behavior and discourage violation of facility rules.
• Monitors, supervises, plans, organizes, and directs the behavior and activities of residents in a manner that ensures the safety of residents, staff, volunteers, and visitors.
• Maintains a safe and secure environment for both the residents and staff by diffusing disruptive/destructive behaviors through crisis intervention and verbal counseling whenever possible but, when necessary, uses physical intervention techniques to maintain safety and regain control of the situation.
• Demonstrates coherent and effective oral and written communication skills. Completes concise, accurate, and timely written and/or electronic logs and reports as required.
• Performs other job duties as assigned.

• Perform related essential and non-essential functions as needed

Equipment: Employees use the following equipment: security controls, close-circuit cameras, intercoms, two-way radios, computers, telephones, fax machines, washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, vacuum, automobiles.

• Must be prompt, reliable, and professional.
• Must possess good judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Must have the ability to give and take direction effectively.
• Must possess the ability to handle stressful / crisis situations.
• Must be willing to work in a closed correctional environment which may at times present hazards such as potential risk of injury or exposure to illness.

Employee has contact with administrators, supervisors, co-workers, and the residents of the Detention Center. The purpose of these contacts is to oversee all activities of the residents and maintain control.

• Physical Requirements: Employee’s work is identified as light work, requiring the lifting of up to twenty-five (25) pounds occasionally. Must be able to physically intervene in situations involving disruptive and/or physically aggressive juvenile residents.
• Physical Activity: Balancing, stooping, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
• Visual Activity: The seeing job ranges from close to the eyes to beyond arm’s reach.
• Job Location: Employee works both inside and outside with no exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Part-time
• Job function:
  Other, Information Technology, and Management
• Industries:
  Human Resources Services