Transporter
Company: TRUECORE BEHAVIORAL SOLUTIONS
Location: Miami
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
Job Details
Job Location
Miami Youth Academy - Miami, FL
The following is a composite representation of the actual positions
which make up this classification. It is not intended to cover all
possible job requirements or job factors which, if applicable, are
included by reference. Lines of supervision and reporting are as
shown on an organizational chart. TrueCore Behavioral Solutions has
zero tolerance for abuse.
A. Position Definition & Summary:
Provides transportation for youth from the facility to their
respective appointments. Ensures that proper safety and security
measures, as mandated by the Department of Juvenile Justice, are
enforced during all transports.
B. Position Expectations and Essential Functions:
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- Ensures safety procedures are followed during transportation
with residents.
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- Participates and coordinates with management to ensure that the
transportation needs of the youth are met.
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- Supports the facilitys favorable public image.
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- Complies with applicable standards of conduct and regulations
governing delivery of services.
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- Maintains attendance and punctuality.
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- Maintains restraint inventory log.
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- Ensures that vehicles are maintained and appropriate forms
completed regarding vehicle utilization.
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- Participates in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit,
enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management
when not on transport.
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- Effectively implements and consistently applies the programs
Positive Performance System (PPS) / Behavior Management System
(BMS).
- Detect, respond, and prevent abuse of youth.
- Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.
C. Position Requirements:
Education:
- Shall hold an associates degree and have a current Florida
drivers license, and successfully complete a required training
program. The transporter will be required to complete all
pre-service training.
Other Requirements:
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
- Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid
in the state where the work site is located only if the operation
of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to
perform the essential duties of the position.
D. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to maintain positive professional working relationship
with co-workers and juveniles.
- Ability to comply with rotating mandatory stay list.
- Ability to cope with crisis situations that occur in a juvenile
facility.
- Ability to follow orders explicitly.
- Ability to empathize with juveniles from different
backgrounds.
- Ability to work with a variety of behaviors.
- Ability to tolerate verbal and mental abuse while maintaining a
professional demeanor.
- Ability to perform appropriate crisis intervention, including
physically breaking up fights.
- Ability to participate in escape apprehension activities and to
respond to emergency situation requirements.
- Ability to complete pre-service and annual in-service CPR and
first aid certification training and self-defense and physical
intervention training.
- Ability to pass drug and TB screening and testing.
- Ability to work under pressure; meet inflexible deadlines; set
priorities; deal diplomatically with difficult individuals; and
supervise others; ability to manage multiple programs; lead
management teams and work independently. Adherence to the highest
ethical standards essential.
- Ability to write concise and accurate reports.
E. Equipment Utilized
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or
manual recording and information systems used by the agency,
office, or related units.
F. Physical Requirements & Work Environment:
- Talking: Ability to express and exchange ideas via spoken word
during activities in which they must convey details or important
spoken instructions to others accurately, sometimes quickly and
loudly. Hearing and Vision: Ability to perceive the nature of
sounds with no less than 40 dB loss at Hz, 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with
or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information
through oral communication. Work requires a minimum standard of
visual acuity with or without correction that will enable employees
to complete clerical tasks, and observe youth. Dexterity: Ability
to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, push, pull, lift, grasp, and be
able to perceive the attributes of an object such as size, shape,
and temperature. Movements frequently and regularly required using
wrists, hands and/or fingers. Physical Strength: Ability to exert
up to 100 pounds of force occasionally. Position is mostly standing
and employee must be able to physically perform escalation matrix
as defined in Protective Action Response. This may include, but is
not limited to all countermoves and restraint techniques. Employee
may be subject to temperature changes, but the employee is not
substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions as the
work is predominantly inside. Language: Ability to write complex
sentences, using proper punctuation, and ability to communicate in
complex sentences using normal word order with present and past
tenses. Processing and Reasoning: Ability to exercise self-control
in potentially volatile situations such as in verbal and physical
confrontations. Must be able to work and concentrate amidst
distractions and noise. Ability to assist youth with problem
solving and maintaining self-control in volatile situations.
- The work environment characteristics described are
representative of those an employee encounters while performing the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions. While performing the duties of this position
the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions
as they relate to travel. Work environment may involve exposure to
noise, dust, fumes, dangerous machinery, chemicals, body fluids,
falling objects, and aggressive verbal and physical behavior from
students and weather and temperature extremes.
Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long
as they can perform the essential functions of the job after
reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the
accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the company
undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible
Keywords: TRUECORE BEHAVIORAL SOLUTIONS, Miami , Transporter, Other , Miami, Florida
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