What are the responsibilities and job description for the INSTITUTIONAL PROBATION OFFICER - Juvenile Services position at Tarrant County College?
Summary
Provide a safe, secure and positive environment for juveniles detained in the Juvenile Detention Center. Supervise the activities of juveniles in the course of meeting their educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary and basic child care needs. Supervise family visitation and documents juveniles’ behavior and adaptation to a secure, supervised setting on a daily basis.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is regularly required to walk, sit, stand, bend, stoop and lift. Exposure to communicable and contagious diseases; potential for physical and mechanical restraint situations involving juveniles who are violent and self destructive.
Tarrant County offers a full range of employee benefit programs for eligible employees, retirees, and their families. These programs include group health plans for medical, dental, and vision coverage; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); life and long- term disability insurance; and flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care reimbursements. The County also provides retirement benefits. Full time employees participate in the Texas County & District Retirement System (TCDRS), and employees may also participate in a retirement savings program (Deferred Compensation). In addition to these "basic employee benefits" and retirement services, employees benefit from a variety of other programs including 13 paid holidays, a Wellness Program, and more.
Which of the following describes your combination of completed degree and minimum years of experience? (Note: Failure to provide complete information in the education section — including the type of degree, field of study, and graduation status — may result in disqualification.)
Do you possess a valid Driver License and proof of liability insurance?
Do you have the ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required?
Are you bilingual? If so, what languages do you speak, read and understand?
Are you currently certified or was previously certified as a JPO, JSO or CAO? If yes, please provide in which county and last date of certification.
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Survey 1-Except for minor traffic violations, have you had a felony conviction or deferred adjudication against the laws of this state, another state or the United States within the past 10 years?
Survey 2-Are you currently on felony probation or parole?
Survey 3-Have you had a jailable misdemeanor conviction or deferred adjudication against the laws of this state, another state or the United States within the past 5 years?
Survey 4-Are you currently on misdemeanor probation or parole?
Survey 5-Are you required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Texas Code of Criminal procedure?
Survey 6-If previously certified as a Juvenile Probation or Detention Officer, is your certification currently under revocation or suspension?
PREA 1 Have you engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution?
PREA 2 Have you been convicted of engaging in or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community by force, threat of force, coercion, or where the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse?
PREA 3 Have you been civilly or administratively adjudicated for or found to have engaged in any of the conduct described in either of the two previous questions?
PREA 4 Have you ever been civilly or administratively adjudicated, disciplined or had any government issued license revoked or suspended for having engaged in conduct defined as sexual harassment?
Do you have prior military experience? If yes, be prepared to provide us with a DD-214.
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Why do you want this position in the Tarrant County Juvenile Services Department?
Provide a safe, secure and positive environment for juveniles detained in the Juvenile Detention Center. Supervise the activities of juveniles in the course of meeting their educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary and basic child care needs. Supervise family visitation and documents juveniles’ behavior and adaptation to a secure, supervised setting on a daily basis.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Maintains safe, secure and positive environment, while meeting the educational, emotional, recreational, disciplinary, and basic needs of each detainee
- Provides individual and group counseling for detainees
- Provides discipline when detainees violate rules and may restrain youth who are out of control
- Intervenes in aggressive and self-injurious behaviors with crisis intervention, counseling, physical and mechanical restraint
- Supervises the personal grooming, hygienic activities and housekeeping tasks of detained youth
- Maintains security of residents and facility through regular accounting of population and materials as well as search of juveniles
- Conducts facility-wide and personal searches for contraband
- Performs all other related duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- A minimum of 1,750 hours of full-time casework, counseling, community or group work, or related experience in a social service, community, corrections, or juvenile agency that deals with offenders or disadvantaged persons required.
- One (1) year full-time graduate study in criminology, corrections, counseling, law, social work, psychology or a related field may substitute for required experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required.
- Valid driver’s license and proof of automobile liability insurance.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is regularly required to walk, sit, stand, bend, stoop and lift. Exposure to communicable and contagious diseases; potential for physical and mechanical restraint situations involving juveniles who are violent and self destructive.
Tarrant County offers a full range of employee benefit programs for eligible employees, retirees, and their families. These programs include group health plans for medical, dental, and vision coverage; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); life and long- term disability insurance; and flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care reimbursements. The County also provides retirement benefits. Full time employees participate in the Texas County & District Retirement System (TCDRS), and employees may also participate in a retirement savings program (Deferred Compensation). In addition to these "basic employee benefits" and retirement services, employees benefit from a variety of other programs including 13 paid holidays, a Wellness Program, and more.
- Note: These benefits are for Tarrant County employees only. For benefit information regarding Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) employees, please contact Patrice Smith at (817) 884-1227.
Which of the following describes your combination of completed degree and minimum years of experience? (Note: Failure to provide complete information in the education section — including the type of degree, field of study, and graduation status — may result in disqualification.)
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 1,750 hours of full-time casework, counseling, community or group work, or related experience in a social service, community, corrections, or juvenile agency that deals with offenders or disadvantaged persons required.
- Bachelor's degree and One (1) year full-time graduate study in criminology, corrections, counseling, law, social work, psychology or a related field.
- None of the above
Do you possess a valid Driver License and proof of liability insurance?
- Yes
- No
Do you have the ability to obtain and maintain current certification for Texas Juvenile Supervision Officer, Texas Juvenile Probation Officer, First Aid, CPR, and Non-Violent Restraint with annual renewal required?
- Yes
- No
Are you bilingual? If so, what languages do you speak, read and understand?
- Yes
- No
Are you currently certified or was previously certified as a JPO, JSO or CAO? If yes, please provide in which county and last date of certification.
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Survey 1-Except for minor traffic violations, have you had a felony conviction or deferred adjudication against the laws of this state, another state or the United States within the past 10 years?
- Yes
- No
Survey 2-Are you currently on felony probation or parole?
- Yes
- No
Survey 3-Have you had a jailable misdemeanor conviction or deferred adjudication against the laws of this state, another state or the United States within the past 5 years?
- Yes
- No
Survey 4-Are you currently on misdemeanor probation or parole?
- Yes
- No
Survey 5-Are you required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Texas Code of Criminal procedure?
- Yes
- No
Survey 6-If previously certified as a Juvenile Probation or Detention Officer, is your certification currently under revocation or suspension?
- Yes
- No
PREA 1 Have you engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution?
- Yes
- No
PREA 2 Have you been convicted of engaging in or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community by force, threat of force, coercion, or where the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse?
- Yes
- No
PREA 3 Have you been civilly or administratively adjudicated for or found to have engaged in any of the conduct described in either of the two previous questions?
- Yes
- No
PREA 4 Have you ever been civilly or administratively adjudicated, disciplined or had any government issued license revoked or suspended for having engaged in conduct defined as sexual harassment?
- Yes
- No
Do you have prior military experience? If yes, be prepared to provide us with a DD-214.
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Why do you want this position in the Tarrant County Juvenile Services Department?
- Required Question