Job Details
Qualifications
- 2 years
- Addiction counseling
- Driver's License
- High school diploma or GED
- Supervising experience
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
- Wellness program
Job Description
Benefits:
- Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan (www.copera.org) plus 401(k) and 457 plans
- Medical and dental health plans
- Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
- Paid life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
- BenefitHub state employee discount program
- Employee Wellness program MotivateMe
- Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more
Minimum qualifications:
- High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED)
- Be a minimum of 21 years of age, with no felony convictions or history of domestic violence
- Possess and maintain a valid State of Colorado driver's license
- Two (2) years professional experience working in a correctional or trauma-informed facility OR two (2) years of appropriate education will substitute for the required experience (attach transcripts to application if so)
Preferred qualifications:
- The Division of Youth Services (DYS) encourages qualified candidates with "lived experience" to apply. Lived experience comes from the personal knowledge and understanding that many possess by virtue of first-hand experience with mental health, substance abuse, systems involvement and traumatic events. Lived experience brings unique knowledge, insights and perspectives that are invaluable for organizational growth, increased sensitivity to the youth and families we serve, and new ideas and inspiration for improving service delivery.
- Education/experience working with adolescents who have trauma
- Experience working with youth in positive leadership roles, such as mentoring and coaching
Responsibilities:
- Must display knowledge and skill in supervision of subordinate staff whose work involves providing for the safe, secure and trauma responsive direct care of pre-adjudicated and adjudicated youth in a locked setting
- Must teach, lead, inform, monitor, and coach subordinate staff as they complete necessary (daily) assigned tasks
- Reviews, updates and suggests procedural, scheduling and/or other operational changes
- Provide formal/informal performance feedback
- Supervise and oversee daily facility operations and/or departments as assigned
- Provides verbal and written instructions and directives regarding daily operations
- Evaluates incidents, provides information to minimize assaultive behaviors by action planning and communicating pertinent information to all necessary parties
- Monitors the location, movement, safety and condition of youth
- Demonstrates effective crisis intervention as necessary
- Models, supervises, teaches, trains, coaches, and enforces proper implementation of the facility’s behavior management program in a positive and professional manner
Job description:
This recruitment is for back-end swing shifts, Wednesday through Saturday.
This work unit exists to provide for the direct care, safety, and security of both male and female pre-adjudicated or adjudicated youth in custody using a trauma responsive approach. Job exists as a first line formal supervisory position dedicated to overseeing or providing supervision for direct care Youth Services Specialists. This is accomplished through the supervision of subordinate series FTE and/or through direct provision of the service. Routinely manages: scheduling of staff, movement of juveniles, oversees admissions/releases, orientation (for both staff and youth), security/control functions, educational support services, daily programming, recreation, meals, medical referral and follow-up, and customer service. Responsible to identify, report, document and intervene in subordinate staff performance concerns, when necessary.
Facility description - Betty K. Marler Youth Services Center:
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides a continuum of residential and non-residential services that encompass juvenile detention, commitment, and parole. DYS is the agency statutorily mandated to provide for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of the Colorado Department of Human Services. The Division operates fifteen secure facilities that serve youth between the ages of 10 and 21, who are pre-adjudicated, sentenced, or committed.
About the Colorado Department of Human Services:
CDHS connects people with assistance, resources and support for living independently in our state at every stage of their lives. We serve Coloradans through bold and innovative health and human services. Colorado has a state-supervised and county-administered human services system. Under this system, county departments are the main provider of direct services to Colorado’s families, children and adults. Many of CDHS's programs, benefits and services — such as food and heating assistance and child welfare — are administered by county human services departments.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $32.52 - $33.50 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
- 2 years
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overnight shift
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: In person