TJJD - Dorm Supervisor I - Team Leader-State Services (GNS) - Gainesville, United States - Headhunter Systems Limited

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Job Description TJJD - Dorm Supervisor I - Team Leader-State Services (GNS **Organization**

: TEXAS JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT **Primary Location**

: Texas-Gainesville **Work Locations**

: Gainesville 1379 FM 678 Gainesville **Your job application must be completely filled out and include all employment, do not limit employment to the past 10-15 years.** Your application must contain complete job histories, which include job titles, name of employer, dates of employment (month & year), supervisors name and phone number, and a description of duties performed, and whether it was full-time or part-time and hours per week. If any of this information is not provided, your application may be rejected as incomplete. **Resumes do not take the place of this required information.** State of Texas Benefits and Retirement Information can be found at . Benefits include: Retirement plan, paid group health & life insurance for employee, paid holidays, paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, longevity pay, educational assistance program, employee assistance program. Optional add-on benefits include: Dental, Vision, Optional Life Insurance, Voluntary AD&D Insurance, Dependent Health & Life insurance, Health & Dependent care flexible spending accounts, etc. Additionally, certain designated positions are eligible for hazardous duty pay, career ladder advancements, and free meals while on duty. * Understand and promote the vision and direction of the department and agency;

set goals for staff performance, which comply with agency mission, vision, and core values;

ensure staff understand their duties or delegated tasks;

provide constructive feedback and coaching to staff, to include reviewing cameras with staff to point out specific areas of success and development;

train, supervise, and evaluate staff and develop Senior Coach Vs to do the same;

review overhead and body worn cameras on a regular schedule to ensure safety, security, and adherence to Texas Model principles;

ensure adherence to agency policy and procedures; promptly addressing youth and staff conduct at the lowest level;

participate in the selection of staff to ensure a good fit for the dorm;

responsible for establishing and maintaining a positive dorm culture built on the Texas Model, teamwork, coaching, and caring for youth;

foster trust-building among co-workers and supervised staff and resolve issues;

serve as a calming agent for staff and youth when situations are escalating;

communicate directives with deliberate authority;

ensure information is disseminated to staff from leadership accurately and in a timely manner;

complete required trainings and ensure staff does also;

maintain presence on the dorm and model TBRI principles;

demonstrate TBRI-based playful engagement, healthy boundaries, and repairs with youth and staff, as appropriate;

provide oversight, coaching, and feedback on appropriate Texas Model engagement, activities, and interventions for all shifts;

plan, prioritize, and schedule dorm activities;

ensure daily schedule and activities are followed, including nurture groups and activities;

ensure weekly dorm leadership meeting occurs involving case manager(s), senior coaches and assigned psychologists;

provide technical assistance, training and direction to coaches;

empower staff to learn and practice TBRI principles of failing forward and felt safety while still ensuring the safety of youth;

ensure compliance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards relating to dorm safety, youth movement, on-the-job training, and related operations and programs;

maintain awareness of how staff behaviors may indicate unspoken needs. Seek to create an environment of felt safety, where staff are able to appropriately express needs that may be driving their own behaviors;

ensure youth service team meetings occur per policy;

analyze and use data to make and support decisions and make recommendations to improve programs and operations as well as to staff and schedule the dorm properly, understand trends related to violence, use of force, staff presence, and other indicators that can provide information regarding the health of the dorm and its culture;

seek out creative ways to demonstrate and recognize staff value;

ensure effective shift change transitions occur that clearly communicate key issues;

recognize when staff need to self-regulate and, where possible, provide the opportunity for staff time-outs for emotional regulation;

conduct prompt follow up visits with staff, individually, after an incident to identify potential needs and assist where possible;

exhibit and encourage creativity in group activities used for regulation practice, life skills, and recreation, properly using agency guides and materials and sharing new ideas with leadership that may help other dorms;

lead the team and youth to develop their own dorm identity, appropriate rituals and celebrations, and other concepts that create a sense of welcome and belonging for both staff and youth;

approve/deny timesheets by deadlines to ensure staff are paid timely and accurately;

ensure physical safety on dorms by submitting work orders promptly;

represent the dorm during staff and special meetings and providing relevant information regarding the dorms operations and activities with the program supervisor, facility compliance officer, and facility administrators;

act as the dorms liaison with representatives of various facility programs and other community and juvenile justice agencies;

ensure adequate coach shift supervision and provide direct supervision of coaches and youth during periods of staff shortage or during emergencies; and

provide support, leadership, and direction as needed during crisis at facility.

Bachelors degree with major course work in criminal justice, behavioral science, social science, business administration, public administration or a related field.

Experience providing services for juveniles in a correctional program or other program.

One year of appropriate experience may substitute for one year of college (30 course hours) on a year for year basis.

Completed course hours of undergraduate study may substitute for up to four years of experience on a basis of 30 course hours for one year of experience.

Completed course hours of graduate study may substitute for up to two years of experience on a basis of 12 graduate course hours for one year of experience.

Military experience in a supervisory capacity as an E-5 or above may substitute for the one year of supervisory experience.

Pro-rated part-time experience may satisfy the experience requirement.

Analyzing Alphabetizing Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing Ability to see Ability to hear (with or without aid) Ability to perform tactile discernment Identify colors Depth perception Operate motor equipment Lifting, up to 45 lbs. Carrying, up to 45 lbs. Restraining combative youth Pulling Pushing Walking Standing Sitting Prolonged sitting Repeated bending Reaching above shoulder Manual/finger dexterity Dual simultaneous grasping Crawling Twisting Kneeling Stooping Climbing stairs * Or ability to acquire knowledge of TJJD programs, policies, and procedures, including facility rules and regulations.

Adolescent behavior and counseling and guidance techniques.

The causes of juvenile delinquency and current methods of juvenile offender treatment.

Adult learning principles.

Work with youth in an empathetic and understanding manner and foster the cooperation of youth in the treatme