Position Summary
Primary responsibilities include assisting team members with overall operations of shelter facility and responsible for the direct care, behavior management and supervision to shelter residents, ages 5-17. This includes monitoring personal hygiene, health, medication administration, client intakes and discharges, meal preparation, kitchen clean-up and maintenance, assistance with the planning and facilitation of daily cultural & physical activities to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our youth.
SALARY: DOE. Full-time non-exempt with benefits. Hours 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Essential Duties
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Responsibilities:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provide daily support, staff supervision, and program coordination ensuring that the Emergency Shelter is running effectively and efficiently.
- Directly responsible to the Shelter Coordinator and the Residential & Clinical Director.
- Provide direct care, behavior management, supervision of shelter residents to ensure health and safety of everyone.
- This includes monitoring personal hygiene, health, medication administration, behavioral/emotional status and provide conflict resolution/counseling between residents if needed.
- Prepare healthy nutritious meals and snacks for shelter residents in accordance with shelter menu.
- Must maintain a sanitary environment by performing light maintenance duties and delegating such duties/chores to residents and other staff.
- Ensure that the kitchen is clean with dishes done by the end of the shift.
- Help facilitate daily engaging, interactive activities and groups of a recreational, cultural or educational nature in accordance with weekly schedule.
- This may include house meetings and support groups in accordance with the daily schedule.
- Provide case management support as needed by providing transportation, documentation in appropriate logs and files, complete client Intakes and discharges.
- This includes cleaning the resident’s room, obtaining resident’s evaluation, labeling and storing belongings.
- Plan and facilitate daily engaging, interactive activities and groups of a recreational, cultural or educational nature, in accordance with weekly schedule.
- Supervise parental visits.
- Provide emotional support to shelter residents and their families.
- Must work in conjunction with other Youth Care Workers by enforcing program policies and procedures, provide emotional support to shelter residents and their families and screen crisis referrals.
- Network with other staff before, during and/or after weekend duty regarding the progress and status of residents.
- Provide transportation to shelter residents.
- Perform telephone coverage, screen referrals and provide information to residents and community. ·Attending weekly case management meetings.
