Relief youth development specialist (part-time)
The Harbour is always accepting resumes for our Relief YDS staff. Please follow the link at the bottom of this page to apply.
Reports to: Residential Supervisor
Essential Functions:
Direct Service: Provides supervision and support to residents in the Safe Harbour Emergency Shelter Program or Transitional Living Programs of The Harbour on an on-call basis.
This includes:
a. Developing and maintaining positive relationships with youth in care.
b. Taking on the responsibility of being a Primary YDS for at least one youth in the house.
c. Teaching daily living skills
d. Reviewing documentation regarding employment, school and savings.
e. Providing crisis intervention and milieu counseling
f. Maintaining a physically and emotionally safe environment
Documentation: Documents resident activities and behaviors in client files and communication logs per agency procedures.
This includes:
a. Medication records
b. Critical incident reports
c. Progress notes daily on each youth
d. Maintaining the house calendar
Teamwork: Works collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement plans for both individual youth and the living group as a whole.
This includes:
a. Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with all team members.
b. Communicating concerns across shifts.
c. Participating actively as a staff member in groups scheduled during working hours.
d. Maintain positive relationships with colleagues internally and externally, referral sources, client family members, and the community.
Administration: Ensures that the site operates in physically safe and financially responsible manner including:
a. Takes responsibility for daily and ongoing maintenance of the facility including management of petty cash.
b. Completes maintenance forms and follows through on repairs and other household maintenance issues.
c. Distributes petty cash and obtains necessary signatures from youth.
d. Maintains and turns in receipts for petty cash expenditures
Professional Growth: Participates in supervision and staff development and displays the ability to utilize and integrate material presented in training and supervision.
This includes:
a. Completion of 80 hours of agency required training.
b. Obtains and maintains certification in First Aid and CPR
c. Attends at least 10 hours of inservice or external trainings annually and demonstrates that material presented is integrated into practice.
Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Reports to: Residential Supervisor
Essential Functions:
Direct Service: Provides supervision and support to residents in the Safe Harbour Emergency Shelter Program or Transitional Living Programs of The Harbour on an on-call basis.
This includes:
a. Developing and maintaining positive relationships with youth in care.
b. Taking on the responsibility of being a Primary YDS for at least one youth in the house.
c. Teaching daily living skills
d. Reviewing documentation regarding employment, school and savings.
e. Providing crisis intervention and milieu counseling
f. Maintaining a physically and emotionally safe environment
Documentation: Documents resident activities and behaviors in client files and communication logs per agency procedures.
This includes:
a. Medication records
b. Critical incident reports
c. Progress notes daily on each youth
d. Maintaining the house calendar
Teamwork: Works collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement plans for both individual youth and the living group as a whole.
This includes:
a. Developing and maintaining positive working relationships with all team members.
b. Communicating concerns across shifts.
c. Participating actively as a staff member in groups scheduled during working hours.
d. Maintain positive relationships with colleagues internally and externally, referral sources, client family members, and the community.
Administration: Ensures that the site operates in physically safe and financially responsible manner including:
a. Takes responsibility for daily and ongoing maintenance of the facility including management of petty cash.
b. Completes maintenance forms and follows through on repairs and other household maintenance issues.
c. Distributes petty cash and obtains necessary signatures from youth.
d. Maintains and turns in receipts for petty cash expenditures
Professional Growth: Participates in supervision and staff development and displays the ability to utilize and integrate material presented in training and supervision.
This includes:
a. Completion of 80 hours of agency required training.
b. Obtains and maintains certification in First Aid and CPR
c. Attends at least 10 hours of inservice or external trainings annually and demonstrates that material presented is integrated into practice.
Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- BA, BS, or BSW in human service field.
- Experience with adolescent/young adult population.
- Valid Illinois driver's license and a reliable vehicle.
- Meets DCFS requirements for transporting clients
- Operate kitchen equipment: stove, coffee maker, microwave, deep-fryer.
- Operate office equipment: fax machines, copier machine, phone, calculator, computer.
- Walk up and down stairs at least 20 times in a shift.
- Supervise residents via direct eye contact and observing behavior.
- Lift bags of groceries and boxes of donated items up to 20 lbs.
- Write reports and write in logs and client files.
- Move household furniture of weight up to 25 lbs. and moving it a distance of at least 12 feet to arrange and re-arrange home.
- Is computer proficient and can write reports and record in client files.
- Light housekeeping and minor repairs to sites as needed.
- This is a part-time, as needed, position. Relief staff fill in for employees who take personal or sick time and are unable to provide mandatory coverage of a site. Hours are very flexible.
To apply for this position, please email us your cover letter and resume at: [email protected]