Juvenile Relief Worker - Alternative Programs - Temporary Pool

Overview

This recruitment will remain open until a sufficient number of qualified applications are received. Applications will be reviewed periodically until a decision is made to close the recruitment. Marion County Juvenile Department is recruiting for part-time, temporary/on-call relief workers to provide vacation, illness, school breaks, and vacancy coverage in several department programs. Marion County requires on-site work. Remote work is not available.

Please Note: Juvenile Relief Workers selected to work in Alternative Programs are not eligible to also work in Detention and/or the Guaranteed Attendance Program. If you already work as a Juvenile Relief Worker in Detention or the Guaranteed Attendance Program, you are not eligible to work for Alternative Programs.

Only information provided in the employment application will be considered when determining whether an applicant meets the minimum qualifications for the recruitment.

Attention Marion County or Former Marion County Employees: You must include your Marion County work experience in the application. Please include volunteer experience (working with youth) in the work experience section of your application and include "VOLUNTEER" at the end of the job title.

• Skills
• A comprehensive opportunity for youth to give back to the community through community service, participate in work to pay restitution to crime victims, develop work habits, and learn higher level technical work skills for future employability. Staff run juvenile work crews in the community. The program has four components:

• Community Service
• Matrix
• Focused Utilization of Employment and Labor IV (FUEL)
• The Fresh Start Market and Coffee Shop

Works with seniors and disabled providing firewood and basic landscaping. Recycling, gardening, litter pickup, and landscaping are the other most common projects.

The Matrix program provides both a short-term consequence for youth who have violated conditions of supervision, and a long-term opportunity for youth who owe restitution and need a way to work to earn money to compensate crime victims. Youth are graded on a five-point scale for the following six areas:
1) attendance,
2) attitude,
3) work effort,
4) peer relations,
5) staff relations, and
6) safety. If a youth does not pass, they do not receive any credit and must repeat the day. The Matrix work crews work on various jobs such as 24J School District, Salem City Parks, and Marion County Parks. Matrix jobs generally involve hard physical labor in all kinds of weather. These include cutting firewood which includes running a chainsaw and splitting wood, delivering firewood, paint recycling, paint pick up, vegetation management, ditch clearing, landscaping and lawn maintenance.

Other jobs include working in the Juvenile Department gardens and greenhouses, landscaping the Juvenile Department grounds, and litter patrols.

• Short term Matrix:
  Ordered for one to five days as a consequence for failure to comply with conditions of probation supervision. Labor is unpaid, but youth must earn appropriate point levels to complete the consequence.
• Long-term Matrix:
  The Juvenile Department holds a value that youth be held accountable to paying restitution to crime victims. Youth are generally given the opportunity to earn the money on their own, but many youth do not have the ability to get work, either because of skill or age, or may owe a substantial amount of restitution. Other youth do not show the initiative to take responsibility for getting restitution paid.

The program focus is on earning and paying restitution to crime victims. It also provides the opportunity for youth to learn basic pro-social skills, desirable work habits, and exposes them employment expectations. All money earned is applied toward a youth's restitution until it is completely paid.

This component is the vocational training program. Youth are generally older and looking at employment in the near future. Youth must demonstrate a higher level of self-management to get into the program. The focus is on increasing responsibility, higher level skills, and payment of restitution to crime victims.

FUEL work includes construction, mechanics, metal work and wood working. Each youth receives an extensive exposure to different trades and can select an area of interest to increase their skills which paves the way into the job market.

The purpose is to provide an opportunity for youth to pay back restitution to victims of crime while learning job skills. The youth learn skills related to customer service, food handling, cash handling, barista, merchandising, stocking and various other tasks oriented towards daily operational duties.

duties include, but are not limited to the following. Depending on program area, not all duties listed below will be required.

• Provides orientation for incoming youth and assists them in making the initial…