Job Description
In this role, you'll mentor, guide, and support youth as they navigate challenges and work toward positive change. If you're passionate about helping others and thrive in a structured, team-oriented environment, this opportunity is for you.
What You'll Do:
- Supervise and engage youth residents using effective behavioral management strategies
- Provide individual and group counseling to support growth and accountability
- Maintain a safe, structured environment while responding confidently in crisis situations
- Document daily activities, incidents, and case updates with accuracy
- Transport residents to court, appointments, and approved activities
- Plan and lead recreational and developmental programs
- Conduct room checks, searches, and nightly supervision routines
- Collaborate with staff, including assisting medical personnel when needed
- Play a critical role in maintaining safety-including physical intervention when required
What You Bring:
- Knowledge of counseling techniques, especially with at-risk or justice-involved youth
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust while maintaining boundaries
- Sound judgment and composure in high-pressure situations
- A team-first mindset and commitment to youth development
- Experience in juvenile justice, trauma-informed care, or residential settings is a plus
Ready to step into a role that matters? Apply today and start building a career with purpose in Chesapeake Juvenile Services.
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
#NowHiring #ChesapeakeVA #JuvenileServices
In this role, you'll mentor, guide, and support youth as they navigate challenges and work toward positive change. If you're passionate about helping others and thrive in a structured, team-oriented environment, this opportunity is for you.
What You'll Do:
- Supervise and engage youth residents using effective behavioral management strategies
- Provide individual and group counseling to support growth and accountability
- Maintain a safe, structured environment while responding confidently in crisis situations
- Document daily activities, incidents, and case updates with accuracy
- Transport residents to court, appointments, and approved activities
- Plan and lead recreational and developmental programs
- Conduct room checks, searches, and nightly supervision routines
- Collaborate with staff, including assisting medical personnel when needed
- Play a critical role in maintaining safety-including physical intervention when required
What You Bring:
- Knowledge of counseling techniques, especially with at-risk or justice-involved youth
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust while maintaining boundaries
- Sound judgment and composure in high-pressure situations
- A team-first mindset and commitment to youth development
- Experience in juvenile justice, trauma-informed care, or residential settings is a plus
Ready to step into a role that matters? Apply today and start building a career with purpose in Chesapeake Juvenile Services.
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
#NowHiring #ChesapeakeVA #JuvenileServices
About City of Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living.
Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family.
Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country!
The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history.
Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake.
Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.