Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer ; JRO Unit Milieu

Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 (JRO2)

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."

Location:

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

Closes:
Open until filled

Salary: $69,744 Annually. The salary does not include an additional 5% premium pay for employees working in King County or an on-site 24/7 facility 5% premium. The salary also does not include the 2% general wage increase effective July 1, 2026.

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is accepting applications for the role of Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 to join our team at the Juvenile Rehabilitation Echo Glen Children's Center to provide security and safety services for residents, staff, and visitors in our juvenile rehabilitation residential facility.

The Opportunity:

You will assist counselors on the floor, be a positive role model to our youth residents, intervene, if necessary, when conflicts arise, and ultimately, ensure a safe and secure environment for our youth to learn new ways of relating to themselves and others, and prosper. You will learn about the Juvenile Rehabilitation philosophy and treatment model, which will prepare you for a variety of career advancement opportunities as you support rehabilitative programming for our youth.

Some of what you will do:

• 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 responds 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 (JR) 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 (SPL) checks, key control, room searches for contraband and pat/frisk and strip searches according to policy.
• Escort/supervises 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 (ACT) system.

Required qualifications:

One year relevant experience (full-time equivalency) 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.

AND

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

In addition to those required qualifications, our ideal applicant will also have some or all of the following:

Two or more years of experience in the areas of work such as: social services, youth group activities, security guard, correctional officer, police officer, police reserve officer, 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 (CJTC) or, a certificate of completion in a police or reserve police academy or military training program.

Previously demonstrated:

• 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…