Intake Screener

Posting Closes: February 26, 2026

Starting Pay: $22.46 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.
• May be required to successfully complete and pass required skills testing.

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 when a public emergency or disaster occurs.

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 accommodation.
• Hear at a normal level or with reasonable accommodation.
• Occasionally bend, squat, reach, grasp.
• Occasionally lift up to ten pounds (10lbs).

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V