Youth Care Specialist I

• Supervises, provides care and assists with daily living activities of all residents of ages.
• Assist residents 14 and older with Independent Living skills.
• Assist residents with treatment goals and provide progress to Care Coordinator/ Social Worker.
• Maintains a daily behavior modification program for each resident.
• Provides ongoing guidance and support for each resident.
• Accompanies residents on appointments, activities or outings.
• Create, engage, and participate in therapeutic activities with the resident.
• Work with the resident on utilizing coping skills.
• Provides transportation as necessary.
• Participates in educational, recreational and cultural activities for residents.
• Supervises residents and provides assistance during study or homework time as necessary.
• Completes documentation of residential services provided, including forms, logs and reports, confidential and complete files for each resident.
• Completes required bed checks every 15 minutes, when residents are sleeping or napping.
• Utilize de-escalation techniques to prevent potential crisis situations
• Performs domestic tasks, including but not limited to: housekeeping, cleaning, laundry services, and preparing and serving nourishing meals.
• Administers over-the-counter medication and first aid as needed.
• Ensures a safe environment in accordance with agency, local, state and federal standards and guidelines.
• Attends a minimum of one residential staffing and/or cottage meetings a month.
• Attends and participates in a required number of meetings, trainings, education hours, and teammate

• Intervenes, responds to, assesses and reports on critical incidents and emergencies. This may include assisting with de-escalation (Non-Violent Crisis Intervention.)
• Follows established reporting procedure for minor accidents, injuries, and/or behavioral issues.
• Form mutually respectful and trustful working relationships with peers. Models appropriate team building skills and behavior.
• Works with teammates to ensure required staff to resident ratios.
• Serves as a role model for the residents.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

• Communicate well with fellow employees and comfortable working as part of a team.
• Ability to lead and instruct individuals and teams.
• Creative problem-solver.
• Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to utilize those skills on a daily basis to connect with internal clients, external clients, and employees in a timely manner.
• Ability to independently manage workload, set priorities, meet deadlines, work under pressure and adjust to change.
• Demonstrate integrity, strong character and a strong commitment to the mission and values of the organization when working with employees.
• Self-motivated and able to operate with little supervision while working under pressure with tight timeframes and deadlines.
• Demonstrate maturity in decision-making and initiative all while being a team player and collaborator.
• Work well under pressure with tight timeframes and deadlines.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent management of multiple tasks.
• Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality.
• Present self in a professional manner and have ability to interact with all levels of organization and outside contacts.
• Analysis skills ability to review a problem and recommend appropriate solutions based on knowledge of job and company procedures.
• Interpersonal skills listen to others, work well in a team environment.
• Ability to present ideas clearly and concisely.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Adaptability adapt to change in the work environment, manages competing demands and ability to handle frequent changes.
• Dependability consistently at work on time, follow instructions, respond to manager's instructions.
• Strong computer skills including some Microsoft Office software programs and industry specific computer software.
• Ability to work extended hours including nights, weekends, holidays.

Children's Attention Home Inc