William B Johnson Jr

• 1. Provides counseling services to incoming youth during their initial orientation and adjustment to the facility; determines case planning components including psychosocial, educational and vocational services, mental health, substance abuse, and family factors; manages the enrollment process into available programs and services consistent with case plan requirements and special needs of the individual; works with institutional teams, field staff, and contractors to provide monitoring and intervention to effect positive adjustment and completion of treatment goals for youth on the assigned case load.
  
  2. Prepares, implements and monitors transition and parole release plans consistent with agency case management requirements; utilizes electronic data management and tracking software systems; monitors youth progress, prepares reports, responds to incidents and completes investigations, provides testimony, and performs security interventions to enforce discipline and regulatory compliance.
  
  3. Performs professional assessments of individual youth's criminogenic risks, personal strengths, and individual needs; implements treatment interventions and provides counseling services to both individuals and groups consistent with identified needs and priorities in carrying out case planning utilizing professional expertise; guides direct care staff in supervision and service delivery.
  
  4. Implements the Department of Juvenile Justice Case Management Model for youth assigned to case load; makes case management decisions related to youth behaviors and needs consistent with public safety, including imposition of sanctions, approved issuance of warrants, arrest and confinement, investigatory searches, urine testing, and interaction with law enforcement to effect custodial control, and using security equipment and monitoring devices, assists in the apprehension of absconders.

1. Provides role-modeling behavior, facilitating appropriate communications and developing suitable problem solving and conflict resolution skills for assigned youth, supervising and monitoring the progress of youth in accordance with the individualized service plan.

2. Provides youth with immediate reinforcement of appropriate interaction, limit setting, and correction of inappropriate communication and interaction.

3. Works with counselors and other professional and direct support staff to provide additional assistance and support services to youth, through individualized student interaction and facilitating group programs where trained and certified to do so.

4. Supervises youth in accordance with specified agency rules and standards. Participates in the development and implementation of an individualized service plan including, but not limited to, monitoring implementation of the plan, preparing periodic written and oral reports, attending professional staff meetings for assigned youth, and contributing to the plan in areas of specialization, goal setting, behavioral observations and management issues.


5. Completes all required reports and notifies appropriate staff of issues, concerns and activities.

6. Transports and supervises youth movement to and from destinations inside and/or outside the facility grounds; observes behavior and social interaction of youth and intervenes when conflicts occur and deescalates the situation.

7. Administers nonprescription medications per established protocols and ensures youth have access to necessary and appropriate medical services.

8. Conducts periodic inspections of facility to assure the safety and well being of youth being served.

9. Receives ongoing training to develop new and updated skill and proficiency in carrying out specialized service delivery programs to targeted youth involving group or individual services.

10. Provides guidance and conducts peer training for specialists and interns to familiarize them with different and more challenging assignments and to assist the training coordinator with cyclical training, instruction, and reinforcement of existing directives and procedures and new or improved work methods and techniques.

11. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

• Under immediate supervision, and subsequently under direct supervision for a period of twelve months, receives formal classroom instruction and on-the-job training while performing beginning level professional duties combining core security with a range of individual and group facilitation and social development services in a juvenile justice facility providing for the care, safety, well being and personal development of youth. Work at this level is closely supervised and work products are reviewed and discussed with the incumbent until the employee has demonstrated proficiency in accomplishing each new skill or assignment.
  
  Work involves participating in supervising the movements, conduct, discipline, and training of youth, including delivery and supervision of social and recreational activities, group and individual instruction, motivation, personal care instruction and social skills development, teambuilding and group facilitation, work habits training, job interviewing, goal setting, academic skills and study habits mentoring and monitoring, and individual behavioral case records maintenance for the individual service plans. Receives training in rules and regulations, and in making written reports of violations.