Juvenile Intervention Officer - Intake Screener

Juvenile Intervention Officer – Intake Screener

Juvenile Assessment Center

Posting Closes: February 20, 2025

Starting Pay: $23.00 hourly

General Description:

Professional and administrative work involving detention screening and intake of juvenile arrestees within the Volusia Family Resource Center (FRC).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate's degree from an accredited college or university.
• A comparable amount of education and experience may be substituted for the minimum requirements.

Background Screening: This position will require an extensive background investigation and drug screening.

Essential Functions:

• Provides detention screening and intake to juveniles who are arrested and presented to the Volusia Family Resource Center.
• Ensure completion of the Detention Risk Assessment Instrument (DRAI), Suicide Risk Assessment, State Attorney recommendations, and Massachusetts Assessment Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI).
• Provides appropriate documentation into the Juvenile Justice Information Systems (JJIS).
• Maintains compliance in the JJIS to include charges, demographics, education, and alerts or special needs.
• The screener is also responsible for making appropriate referrals as identified by the Massachusetts Assessment Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI).
• Contacts the victim, family members, and collateral community members to ensure public safety is served as well as identifying appropriate needs and resources for arrestees.
• Develops and maintains relationships with judicial, law enforcement, schools, social and civic organizations.
• Ensures proper documentation of juveniles that are at the Juvenile Assessment Center for longer than six (6) hours from the time they come into the screener’s office until they leave the building.
• Makes recommendations to the state attorney’s office concerning judicial or non-judicial alternatives.
• Attends work on a regular and consistent basis.
• Must adhere to Federal, State, County, and local ordinances.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Status: Civilian

Blood and Viral Pathogen Risk: Minimal Risk

Environmental Conditions:

• General office setting with most duties being performed while sitting at a desk, table, or workstation. Some field work may be required.
• Must be able to staff shifts covering twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week.
• Must be able to work under stressful conditions.
• Must be able to relocate to other county locations based upon operational needs.
• Must be able to remain available to work during an emergency/disaster/epidemic, as directed.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to actively listen to others.
• Ability to conduct and document fact-finding interviews.
• Ability to make recommendations concerning the processing, handling, and disposition of delinquent youth.
• Ability to develop case plans.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work assignments.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with co-workers, community/judicial partners, and act as a liaison to those entities in a capacity defined by the Agency.

Required Knowledge:

• VSO General Orders and procedures.
• Case management practices.
• Interviewing and counseling techniques.

Physical Requirements:

• Manual dexterity.
• Ambulate independently.
• Sit or stand for extended periods of time.
• Utilize a computer/keyboard for extended periods of time.
• See at a normal range or with reasonable accommodations.
• Hear at a normal level or with reasonable accommodations.
• Occasionally bend, squat, reach, grasp.
• Occasionally lift up to ten pounds (10lbs).

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V