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The Division of Juvenile Justice is recruiting to fill a Juvenile Justice Counselor 3 position in Bethel at the Bethel Youth Facility Treatment Unit.

What You Will Be Doing

The Bethel Youth Facility (BYF) Treatment Unit provides culturally appropriate, strength based and trauma informed treatment to youth in a secure residential setting. The BYF Treatment Unit specializes in Neurobehavioral youth. Our residents have mild to severe mental health issues in addition to their justice system challenges.

The Juvenile Justice Counselor 3 leads Juvenile Justice Counselor 1/2’s in carrying out the Unit operations and supervising/caring for juveniles who are in Court ordered treatment. They perform as shift lead and are charged with ensuring that practices are consistent with Alaska Statutes, Alaska Administrative Code, Division of Juvenile Justice, and facility policies and procedures. They make sure that Performance-based Standards are implemented on the Unit and within the context of the Division`s restorative justice philosophy, ensuring the proper care and safety of residents, staff, and the community.

Our Mission, Values, And Culture

The Division of Juvenile Justice’s mission is to hold juvenile offenders accountable for their behavior; promote the safety and restoration of victims and communities; and assist offenders and their families in developing the skills to prevent crime. As a Juvenile Justice Counselor, you will support this mission by working with the youth on their individual needs and maintaining the security and safety of residents, visitors, staff, and facility buildings.

You will be part of a team that takes prides in creating a positive environment for both team members and juveniles. In this role, each day you will be contributing to building a stronger community by supporting our youth, guiding them to be successful and happy.

Our Core Values Include

• Prioritizing Safety – of our youth, staff, families, and communities
• Responsiveness – providing timely response to youth, families, victims, staff, and justice partners.
• Professional Relationships – recognizing that successful treatment services provided to our clients, coworkers, victims, and others rely on positive, respectful, and collaborative relationships and a spirit of inclusiveness.
• Dedication – doing the right things for the right reasons and modeling relentless integrity and leadership.
• Respect – for the inherent value of each person's unique strengths and individual differences.
  
  

Benefits Of Joining Our Team

Joining our team will give you an opportunity to make meaningful change within the lives of youth in Alaska. The Division of Juvenile Justice prides ourselves on empowering our team through a variety of training and offers professional development through various career paths.

We foster a culture of integrity, trust, and respect. The team members within the Division of Juvenile Justice have a lot of pride in the work we do by making a positive impact one juvenile’s life at a time.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

This position is located at the Bethel Youth Facility, 950 State Highway in Bethel, Alaska. As a member of a unit security team on a 24-hour unit you will work shiftwork, holidays, weekends, and occasional overtime.

Who We Are Looking For

In addition to the Minimum Qualifications below, we are looking for a candidate with the following competencies:

• Managing Performance: Takes responsibility for employees’ performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable, tracking progress against the goals, supporting employees’ efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources, removing obstacles, acting as a buffer, etc.), ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
• Conscientiousness: Displays a high level of effort and commitment towards performing work; demonstrates responsible behavior.
• Integrity/Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Stress Tolerance: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, dangerous situations).
  
  

If this sounds like your skill set, or one you would like to develop, please apply through Workplace Alaska.

Please Note: This position may require escort travel.

To view the general description and example of duties for Juvenile Justice Counselor 1/2please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/alaska/classspecs/891170?keywords=juvenile%20justice%20counselor&pagetype=classSpecifications