Youth Worker 1-4 (Relief Roster - Waterville)

 

Competition # : 43530 

Department: Justice

Location: WATERVILLE

Type of Employment: Relief

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG 

Closing Date: 25-Jul-24  (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Correctional Services division of the Department of Justice is responsible for the administration and operation of community and custody-based programs and services for adults and young persons. Within the Correctional Services core business area there are two programs: community corrections & correctional facilities. Each of these program areas is broken down into closely related activities that have a specific impact on the program’s target group. 

Four (4) adult correctional facilities and one (1) youth centre provide the safety and security of persons in custody while providing programs that address dynamic criminogenic factors to assist with their successful reintegration back into the community.

Nova Scotia Correctional Services utilizes an evidence-based approach in both Community Corrections and custodial facilities. Core Correctional Practices (CCP) is the foundational practice that drives reintegration and rehabilitation practices deployed within Correctional Services. Utilizing CCP, Correctional Services staff can effectively interact, manage behavior, and help facilitate change, within target populations.

For more information on the Department of Justice Correctional Services please visit our website: https://novascotia.ca/just/Corrections/

 

About Our Opportunity

As a Relief Youth Worker, you are responsible for the safe secure custody, control, and supervision of sentenced and remanded persons in custody in a youth correctional centre on a rotating shift basis. 

Our Youth Workers undertake duties associated with your shift assignment in various areas of the centre. In this role, you will have regular and ongoing interaction with youth in custody, while encouraging pro-social behaviour. You are also responsible for administrative functions related to the case management database (JEIN) and plan, organize, and implement a variety of programs and services to meet the needs of assigned young persons.  This includes such activities as facilitating individual and group program activities in the community and coordinating comprehensive orientation for new residents.  You will develop and implement effective individualized case plans for assigned young persons, and prepare administrative reports related to young offender management, such as custodial progress reports for review of dispositions of the youth court. 

Youth Workers work with a diverse population and are accountable for promoting and adhering to policy and procedures, standard operating procedures, post orders and directives. As part of this role, you will be involved with conducting counts and searches, writing reports, ensuring persons in custody security and safety.

 

Primary Accountabilities

Responsibilities include:

Facility Security
o    Provides dynamic supervision of youth in custody and safe secure custody, control, and supervision of the youth in custody.

Persons in Custody Supervision
o    Includes, but not limited to participate in the case management of youth in custody; approve and arrange professional and personal visits and professional phone calls, and escort youth in custody within the facility as well as in the community; respond to youth complaints and requests; assist youth in the completion of forms (e.g., requests, complaints); supervise persons in custody work activity inside and outside the facility.

Physical Plant Maintenance
o    Supervise facility cleaning by youth, supervise persons in custody trustees on outside work detail, submit maintenance work orders when required.

Programs
o    Advise youth of available programs and referring and adhering to the posted program schedule and support persons in custody program work in the living units

Administration & Communication
o    Record and communicate information through reports, forms, logbooks, email and JEIN documentation and participate in committees or meetings as requested by the Youth Custody Manager or designate.
o    Communicate in a timely, transparent, and effective manner and participate in workplace wellness