at Sedgwick County in Wichita, Kansas, United States
Job Description
Performs lead worker duties and routine work involving the observation, security and training of juvenile or adult clients in a 24-hour correctional facility within the Department of Corrections.
Direct Care
- Assist with client admissions and releases, as needed.
- Supervise adult clients’ care and security; lead recreation, instructional, or educational activities; and search client property and facility areas.
- Maintain safety and security through alert observation and prompt intervention.
- Monitor client activities inside or approved outside the facility, emphasizing security, behavior modification, control, and prosocial modeling.
- Administer urinalysis and breathalyzer tests; review reports and communications to stay informed of facility and client activity.
- Model positive, prosocial behavior.
Case Management
- Escort clients to school, court, visitation, meals, and other activities; communicate with community contacts to monitor client activities.
- Address rule violations by initiating discipline, preparing reports, assigning and supervising consequences, investigating incidents, and recognizing positive behavior with incentives.
- Prepare and maintain records and reports; manage client money and property as needed.
- Ensure medication record, handling, and distribution requirements are met, as needed.
Supervisor Extender
- Provide situational counseling to help clients understand and meet program requirements.
- Provide crisis intervention and suicide prevention.
- Apply approved emergency intervention or restraint when appropriate.
- Administer first aid and CPR as needed.
- Assume relief shift-supervisory duties when supervisors are absent.
- Assist supervisors with routine duties to ensure policy and procedure compliance.
- Support the supervisory team by assisting with staff supervision and evaluations, training new staff, and modeling expected team behavior.
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