Juvenile Correction Counselor; Entry

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Under immediate supervision, incumbents in the class of Juvenile Correctional Counselor (Entry) supervise and counsel justice‑involved youth detained in or committed to a County institution; learn to maintain order and structure within the assigned area on a daily basis; learn to teach classes, provide counseling and assist detained youth in using other resources and opportunities. Incumbents may be assigned to offer support, guidance and direction in a community setting.

Incumbents are expected to learn techniques for effective supervision and/or counseling of youth preparatory to promotion to the journey level. This class is the entry‑level class in the Juvenile Correctional Counselor series.

• Experienced counselors who are expected to perform at a higher level of competence with only general supervision.

• Incumbents must be able to work in a restricted, sometimes hostile environment.
• Incumbents may be required to lift objects weighing more than 100 pounds with assistance.
• Employees in this class will be working in a detention facility environment and thus will be subject to exposure to communicable diseases, disruptive and confrontational people, potentially combative and violent people, intense noises, odors, and blood and other bodily fluids.
• Hours of Work:
  Incumbents may be required to work weekends, holidays, irregular hours, on‑call, and after normal business hours.

• Learns how to ensure the security, daily care and custody of youth within a pod including counseling, mediating disputes, monitoring group dynamics among youth, assisting in emergency situations, serving meals and overseeing laundry care and distribution, logging and dispensing inhalers and medicated shampoo as prescribed by medical staff, and performing all other duties to oversee the health and safety of those in custody.
• Learns to provide crisis intervention counseling including suicide prevention counseling to youth.
• Learns when and how to refer youth to behavioral health.
• Learns to provide general counseling and cognitive behavioral training to give support or to modify youths’ behavior; may give personal guidance and counseling to reduce anxiety and tension of youth who are detained.
• Learns to facilitate Cognitive Behavioral Training (CBT) groups; implements behavioral management program; conducts CBT mini‑cycles with youth; creates and monitors weekly and monthly case plans.
• Learns to manage assaultive behavior; prepares behavior summaries and written daily observations, including special incident reports for youths on a daily basis or as needed; enforces the policies and procedures of the institution.
• Learns to plan recreation and other activities independently for medium to large groups of justice‑involved youth of varying ages, gender, ability and sophistication.
• Learns to monitor individual and group behavior and attitudes independently to avoid and manage conflicts; maintains constant observation; conduct safety and security checks; conducts authorized felony or misdemeanor searches of youth and all required institutional searches; supervises work, school and study time, meal time, clean‑up, visits, and all other group activities of youth; documents the behavior of individuals by writing timely reports and keeping accurate records.
• Learns to process youth during intake to the facility. Orients all youth to the facility setting and to staff expectations. Instructs youth in social and life skills.
• Learns procedures to transport youth to medical, dental, court or other mandatory appointments.
• Learns to provide emergency medical first aid treatment as needed.
• Inspects incoming and outgoing mail; calculates and records point totals for behavior management; issues supplies.
• Learns to conduct drug testing of youth.
• Learns to assist in providing treatment in a community‑based program; assists in rehabilitation by facilitating an integrated system of care, using the expertise of other agencies and personnel; facilitates conferences…