Youth development specialist
Those interested in applying should submit a cover letter and resume by clicking on the link below.
This postion will be available until filled.
Essential Functions:
Direct Service:
Provides supervision and support to residents in the Safe Harbour Emergency Shelter Program or Transitional Living Programs of The Harbour.
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
e. Completing clothing inventories twice per year with assigned youth.
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. Participates in weekly supervision, brings issues into supervision, and demonstrates that material covered in supervision is utilized in job performance.
d. Attends at least 10 hours of inservice or external trainings annually and demonstrates that material presented is integrated into practice.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
To apply for this position, please email us your cover letter and resume at: [email protected]
This postion will be available until filled.
Essential Functions:
Direct Service:
Provides supervision and support to residents in the Safe Harbour Emergency Shelter Program or Transitional Living Programs of The Harbour.
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
e. Completing clothing inventories twice per year with assigned youth.
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. Participates in weekly supervision, brings issues into supervision, and demonstrates that material covered in supervision is utilized in job performance.
d. Attends at least 10 hours of inservice or external trainings annually and demonstrates that material presented is integrated into practice.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- BA, BS, or BSW in human service field
- Experience with adolescent/young adult population
- Valid Illinois driver's license and access to a car
- Meets DCFS requirements for transporting clients
- Ability to operate kitchen equipment: stove, coffee maker, microwave, and deep-fryer
- Ability to operate office equipment: fax machine, copier machine, phone, calculator, and computer
- Ability to walk up and down stairs at least 20 times in a shift
- Supervise residents via direct eye contact and observe behavior
- Ability to lift bags of groceries and boxes of donated items up to 20 lbs
- Write reports and write in logs and client files
- Ability to move household furniture of weight up to 25 lbs a distance of at least 12 feet to arrange home
- Computer proficiency
- Annual base salary is $24,000 plus an excellent benefits package
To apply for this position, please email us your cover letter and resume at: [email protected]