Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 (JRO2) - Aberdeen

Posting number: 2026-00706

Department: Dept of Children, Youth, and Families

Division: Harbor Heights

Job classification: JUVENILE REHABILITATION OFFICER 2

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Corrections, Mental Health, Public Safety, Risk Management, Social Services, Safety, Security

Summary

Our vision is to ensure that “Washington state’s children and youth grow up safe and healthy—thriving physically, emotionally and academically, nurtured by family and community.

Our vision is to ensure that “Washington state’s children and youth grow up safe and healthy—thriving physically, emotionally and academically, nurtured by family and community."

Job Title: Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 (JRO2)

Location: Harbor Heights – Stafford Creek, Aberdeen, WA | Daily on-site attendance is required for this position.

Salary: $5,5779 Monthly. The indicated salary does not include a 5% on-site 24/7 facility premium.

Schedule:  We have various positions and schedules available.

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is accepting applications for a Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 2 to join our team at the Juvenile Rehabilitation Harbor Heights to provide security and safety services for residents, staff, and visitors in our juvenile rehabilitation residential facility.

Click here to learn more about DCYF.

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The Opportunity:

You will assist counselors on the floor, be a positive role model to our youth residents, intervene, if necessary, when conflicts arise, and ultimately, ensure a safe and secure environment for our youth to learn new ways of relating to themselves and others, and prosper. You will learn about the Juvenile Rehabilitation philosophy and treatment model, which will prepare you for a variety of career advancement opportunities as you support rehabilitative programming for our youth.

Some of what you will do:

• Proactively maintain awareness of verbal and written information from previous shifts.
• Operate communication devices such as two-way radio, and telephone.
• Recognize and assess problem situations and immediately responds to emergent situations.
• Assess youth behavior for risk to self and others.
• Supervise youth during administration of prescription and non-prescription medications.
• Monitor and supervise youth at all times and intervene by using Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) approved methods and techniques for verbal de-escalation, physical control and/or restraints as necessary to restore safety and order.
• Conduct routine and random security duties including perimeter, grounds, building checks, headcounts, Suicide Precaution Level (SPL) checks, key control, room searches for contraband and pat/frisk and strip searches according to policy.
• Escort/supervises youth during facility movements and appointments.
• Perform basic data and retrieval functions using computerized system, and input incident reports and client tracking into the Automated Client Tracking (ACT) system.

Required qualifications:

One year of relevant experience (full-time equivalency) in counseling, criminal justice, juvenile justice, education, psychology, sociology, behavioral health, social service, security, law enforcement, or military (Roles such as: youth group leader, correctional officer, para-educator, loss prevention, investigator or military service).

OR

• Two years of college.

OR

• One year as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer 1.

AND

• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

In addition to those required qualifications, our ideal applicant will also have some or all of the following:

Two or more years of experience in the areas of work such as: social services, youth group activities, security guard, correctional officer, police officer, police reserve officer, military police, or other law enforcement work; or a certificate of completion in a basic law enforcement training program approved by the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) or, a certificate of completion in a police or reserve police