Youth Care Specialist

Youth Care Specialist-Intervention Center

The Youth Care Specialist is a professional person appointed to promote public safety by providing a safe, clean, caring setting to deliver program services that lower risk and respond to the mental health, behavioral health and life-skills needs of court-involved youth and families in Greene County with a focus on reducing reliance on secure confinement while promoting the goals, objectives and mission of the organization.

Department:
Prevention & Intervention Svc.

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

Supervisor:
Director of Prevention & Intervention

Civil Service Status:
Unclassified

Employee Status:
Full-time (35 hours/week)

Job duties (examples may not be comprehensive):

• Youth Supervision and Direct Care
• Safety and Security
• Program Operations and Services
• Family Engagement Support
• Community and Public Relations
• Meetings/Committees

Required knowledge, skills & abilities (examples may not be comprehensive/job related skills may be acquired pursuant to on-the-job training):

• Security and supervision best practices
• Program development
• Criminology and juvenile delinquency
• Juvenile rights
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Organization skills
• Operation of security system and other technologies
• Recognition and effective response to unusual or threatening conditions
• Effective response in crisis situations pursuant to training
• Accurate and neat record-keeping
• Maintenance of positive relationships with youth, co-workers and the general public
• Physical fitness
• Presentation to public, tour groups and/or professional personnel in court settings
• Application of cognitive-behavioral interventions including behavior reinforcement/effective punishment and cognitive re-structuring techniques
• Teach character development curricula to at-risk youth, including structured social skills training
• Role model for at-risk youth modeling pro-social behavior
• High degree of discretion dealing with confidential information
• Ability to make difficult decisions
• Represent the organization/appointing authority in a positive manner in the community

Minimum requirements (examples may not be comprehensive):

• Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice, Social Work, Sociology, Childhood Development, humanities or related field or any combination of education and professional experience commensurate with a degree
• Two years of experience in juvenile court or related field working with youth and families in an organized setting or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience with youth and/or juvenile offenders sufficient to perform the job duties as listed above
• Satisfactory completion of professional references check
• Satisfactory completion of criminal background check
• Satisfactory completion of sexual risk assessment
• Satisfactory completion of Ohio Attorney General Offender Search
• Affirmative duty to report prior and/or current misconduct
• Confirmation of valid Ohio driver's license and driving requirements established by the Greene County Board of Commissioners
• Confirmation of degrees, licenses and/or certificates

Work conditions (examples may not be comprehensive):

The Youth Care Specialist – Intervention Center, occupies an office at the Greene County Juvenile Court Assessment and Intervention Center (AIC), which is located off-site from the Juvenile Justice Complex. The AIC is a low security office and group activity setting for male and female youth ages 12-18. Youth interactions may occur with youth under the age of 12. The population consists of at-risk, emotionally disturbed and/or potentially violent youth.

There is potential for exposure to communicable diseases and/or parasites. All workers are mandated reporters required to report harassment, abuse and/or neglect pursuant to established policy and procedure. Work is to be conducted, at times, in a fast-paced environment involving deadlines. Routine physical requirements include reaching, stooping, kneeling, standing, walking, writing/keyboarding, talking, hearing, seeing, driving and repetitive motions. Tasks minimally require exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects including the human body.

Additional physical requirements may include self-defense maneuvers pursuant to crisis prevention training and/or exertion resulting from first aid/CPR/AED interventions. Work schedule is flexible except that the…