Youth Support Assistant (Permanent)

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain facility security.
• Key control.
• Perimeter inspections.
• Vehicle and visitor check for contraband.
• Camera surveillance of facility.
• Monitor movement throughout the facility.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Possession of a high school or equivalency diploma.
• One year of full-time experience in the care and programming of youth* from ages 6-21.
• Direct-care experience with youth involved in the juvenile justice system or in an institution, camp, school, community center, youth rehabilitation program, mental health or correctional institution or residential center.
• Appropriate verifiable part-time experience will be accepted on a prorated basis.
• Possession of a valid New York State motor vehicle operator’s license.
• Ability to legally operate a motor vehicle in New York State.

Qualifications

• Satisfactory completion of the probation period must include successful completion of the Basic Academy Training’s two-week training course.
• Participation in ongoing restraint training and other training, as required.
• Shift, weekend, holidays, and overtime assignment, including mandatory overtime, is required.

Background Investigation Requirements

• Criminal Background Check (CBC), including State and federal Criminal History Record Checks.
• Screening against the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment (SCR).
• For Division of Juvenile Justice and Opportunities for Youth (DJJOY): Staff Exclusion List (SEL) check maintained by the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs.
• Fingerprinting is required.
• Prospective employees may be required to pay necessary fees for background checks and fingerprinting.