Dorm Supervisor II Sr Team Leader

About This Role

The Dorm Supervisor II, a Senior Team Leader, performs highly advanced supervisory work for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. This role involves overseeing youth development coaches, managing daily dorm operations and programming, and fostering a positive, trauma-informed culture in a high-security juvenile correctional facility.

Responsibilities

• Understand and promote the vision and direction of the department and agency
• Set goals for staff performance, complying with agency mission, vision, and core values
• Ensure staff understand their duties and delegated tasks
• Provide constructive feedback and coaching to staff, including reviewing camera footage
• Train, supervise, and evaluate staff and develop Senior Coach Vs
• Review overhead and body worn cameras regularly to ensure safety, security, and adherence to Texas Model principles
• Ensure adherence to agency policy and procedures, promptly addressing youth and staff conduct
• Participate in the selection of staff to ensure a good fit for the dorm
• Establish and maintain a positive dorm culture built on the Texas Model, teamwork, coaching, and caring for youth
• Foster trust-building among co-workers and supervised staff and resolve issues
• Serve as a calming agent for staff and youth during escalating situations
• Communicate directives with deliberate authority and ensure timely information dissemination from leadership
• Complete required trainings and ensure staff complete them as well
• Maintain presence on the dorm and model TBRI principles
• Demonstrate TBRI-based playful engagement, healthy boundaries, and repairs with youth and staff
• Provide oversight, coaching, and feedback on appropriate Texas Model engagement, activities, and interventions for all shifts
• Plan, prioritize, and schedule dorm activities, ensuring daily schedules and nurture groups are followed
• Ensure weekly dorm leadership meeting occurs involving case manager(s), senior coaches, and assigned psychologists
• Provide technical assistance, training and direction to coaches
• Empower staff to learn and practice TBRI principles of failing forward and felt safety
• Ensure compliance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards relating to dorm safety and operations
• Maintain awareness of staff behaviors, creating an environment of felt safety for appropriate expression of needs
• Ensure youth service team meetings occur per policy
• Analyze and use data to make and support decisions to improve programs, operations, staffing and scheduling
• Seek out creative ways to demonstrate and recognize staff value
• Ensure effective shift change transitions that clearly communicate key issues
• Recognize when staff need to self-regulate and provide opportunities for emotional regulation time-outs
• Conduct prompt follow up visits with staff after incidents to identify needs and assist
• Exhibit and encourage creativity in group activities for regulation practice, life skills, and recreation
• Lead the team and youth to develop dorm identity, rituals, and celebrations for belonging
• Approve/deny timesheets by deadlines to ensure timely and accurate staff payments

Requirements

• Ability to pass a Criminal Background Check

Benefits