Job Description
Position Purpose: Responsible for providing therapeutic counseling and direction to individual youth in crisis on a one-on-one basis while motivating youth to engage in pro-social and healthy developmental activities on a daily basis, in accordance with program guidelines and expectations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Provides for the overall safety and care of individual residents through close and intensive supervision. Supervises resident in activities to observe and effect changes in social behavior.
- Provides one-on-one intervention and support for residents in need of behavioral or emotional crisis support and assists the youth to re-engage into the therapeutic program milieu.
- Provides highly structures and intensely supervised recreation and socialization activities.
- Completes comprehensive behavioral intervention plans with newly admitted residents.
- Utilizes proactive approach to avert crisis situations and provides behavior management and crisis intervention as required. Assists adolescent to work through crisis situations.
- Teaches adolescents to utilize adaptive, pro-social skills and responses through modeling and direct intervention.
- Provides hands-on life skills training by assisting individual residents with daily living skills.
- Works as part of the Treatment Team to implement the individual treatment plan of each resident. Attends Individual Treatment Plan meetings.
- Serves as on-call staff during emergency situations and calls additional back up staff when necessary.
- Completes appropriate documentation (i.e. program log entries, monthly team reports, incident reports, and weekly progress reports) in a timely fashion.
- Participates in all COMAR meetings.
- Implements all COMAR requirements and program policies and procedures.
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Acts as liaison with outside agencies including schools, social services systems, judicial systems and other organizations as necessary. Advocates for the needs of residents.
- Provides training and assistance in behavior and crisis management as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Position Requirements: - College degree (BA or BS) with one year of related experience preferred.
- Strong commitment to teamwork and to serving difficult, vulnerable youth and their families.
- Broad working knowledge relative to the needs of emotionally disturbed, victimized, learning disabled, delinquent adolescents and their family systems.
- Knowledge of adolescent development.
- Demonstrates cross-cultural competencies.
- An attitude comparable with the goals and missions of the NCCF.
Physical Demands/Work Environment: While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Salary: $60,000 - $65,000
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