Group Supervisor Nights, Probation
CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS:
Ensures order and security during normal nighttime sleeping hours in a facility maintained for the custody, care, treatment or rehabilitation of probation youth. Officers must be able to physically restrain probation youth.
Essential Job Functions
- Ensures for the care and safety of probation youth during normal nighttime sleeping hours.
- Makes periodic rounds of the living unit to verify the presence of all probation youth assigned and to guard against problems such as fires.
- Maintains order and security in the living unit and investigates unusual sounds and occurrences.
- Takes appropriate action to prevent escapes, rule infractions, or other disturbances and observes and records the behavior and actions of individual probation youth and comforts or disciplines as necessary.
- Inspects bedding to prevent misuse and ensure safety, and monitors ventilation and heating levels in the living unit to maintain a comfortable environment.
- Ensures that injured or ill probation youth obtain nursing or medical attention.
- Carries out standard procedures for the admission or release of probation youth including orientation to the facility and assignment to living quarters.
- Supervises probation youth on awakening, in dressing, and in preparing their sleeping area for the day.
- Restrains or assists in restraining combative or emotionally disturbed probation youth.
- Keeps records, makes reports, and performs other clerical duties as assigned.
- Transports or prepares probation youth for transportation to medical care facilities, courts or other locations.
SELECTION REQUIREMENTS
Graduation from an accredited* high school** -OR- A California High School Proficiency Certificate** awarded by the California State Board of Education***