Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer ; JRO Unit Milieu

Job Title: Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 (JRO2)

Location: Echo Glen Children’s Center, Snoqualmie. This position requires daily on-site attendance.

Salary: $69,744 annually. The salary does not include additional 5% premium pay for employees working in King County or an on-site 24/7 facility premium.

• Proactively maintain awareness of verbal and written information from previous shifts.
• Operate communication devices such as two-way radio and telephone.
• Recognize and assess problem situations and immediately respond to emergent situations.
• Assess youth behavior for risk to self and others.
• Supervise youth during administration of prescription and non-prescription medications.
• Monitor and supervise youth at all times and intervene by using Juvenile Rehabilitation approved methods and techniques for verbal de-escalation, physical control and/or restraints as necessary to restore safety and order.
• Conduct routine and random security duties including perimeter, grounds, building checks, headcounts, Suicide Precaution Level checks, key control, room searches for contraband and pat/frisk and strip searches according to policy.
• Escort and supervise youth during facility movements and appointments.
• Perform basic data and retrieval functions using computerized system, and input incident reports and client tracking into the Automated Client Tracking system.

• One year relevant experience in counseling, criminal justice, juvenile justice, education, psychology, sociology, behavioral health, or social service.
• OR Two years of college.
• OR One year as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 1.
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

• Two or more years of experience in social services, youth group activities, security guard, correctional officer, law enforcement, military police, or other law enforcement work; or a certificate of completion in a basic law enforcement training program approved by the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission.
• Understanding of adolescent development and juvenile rehabilitation practices and principles.
• Experience providing cognitive/behavioral therapeutic interventions.
• Competency in relating to clients from diverse backgrounds and cultural groups.
• Knowledge of basic juvenile correctional system, rehabilitation objectives in juvenile institutions, basic interviewing and counseling theories and techniques, basic concepts, fundamentals, and principles of individual and group behaviors, introductory psychology of deviant behavior, and crisis intervention methods and techniques.
• Ability to obtain pertinent information during interviews, assist in rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, apply rules, regulations, and procedures, appraise situations, and remain calm and in control in crisis situations and deescalate situations.
• Ability to speak and write clearly, establish and maintain effective working relationships.

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained service animal by a person with a disability.