Description

Position: Life Development Specialist (shifts available: 2nd shift 3p-11p Monday thru Friday / PRN available as well)

Salary: $18.00 - $21.00 hourly

Job Type: Full Time /Part Time/PRN

Purpose:

Oversees clients in daily activities while teaching new skills, ensuring safety, and managing behaviors. Plan activities, reinforce treatment plans and document all client related information.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for direct supervision and safety of all clients.
• Responsible for proper behavior management of children through the use of behavior management techniques.
• Build healthy relationships with clients and be a role model of healthy behaviors
• Have a working knowledge of child's treatment plan and objectives and structures activities to support that plan.
• Responsible for creatively structuring activities for groups and conducting psycho-educational groups.
• May be responsible for medication administration and other medical support.
• Responsible for the reviewing/writing of all required documentation.
• Responsible for teaching, guiding, and assisting the client in daily life skills as appropriate for age.
• Provide 24 hour awake supervision.
• May assist classroom teacher in performing classroom duties.
• Ability to manage clients courteously and tactfully while on agency property.

Required Skills or Abilities

• Excellent oral/written communication skills.
• Ability to form professional relationships with internal and external clients.
• Required trainings as specified by the agency.
• Ability to serve as an appropriate role model for clients.
• Valid driver's license and vehicle insurance and insurable by agency carrier.

Minimum Requirements

Life Development Specialist 

• Education Level: High school diploma
• Experience: The preferred candidate will have two years’ experience working with children.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to perform a range of physical motions including, but not limited to:

• Lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs.
• Support and safely lower 150 pounds of weight to the floor
• Standing, walking, sitting for long periods of time
• Must be able to get up and down off the floor unassisted
• Must be able to reach above their heads, bend, kneel, and lift
• Running for brief periods of time
• Ability to use senses of sight and hearing to effectively supervise clients
• Must possess, or be willing to attain CPR, First Aid, and Safe Crisis Management (SCM) Training (with sufficient passing score) within 2 weeks of hire date.

BENEFITS: Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes: Paid Holiday, Paid Time Away, medical/dental/vision; prescriptions; accident and critical illness insurance; pet insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; term life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D); health savings account (HSA); flexible spending account (FSA); retirement (401K); employee assistance program (EAP); YMCA membership discounts; Tuition Reimbursement Program and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. To view a detailed Summary of Benefits please visit our website at www.cornerstonesofcare.org and under the heading “About Us” click on “Join Our Team.”

CORNERSTONES OF CARE’S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS:

• Nonviolence-helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose
• Emotional Intelligence-helping to teach emotional management skills
• Social Learning-helping to build cognitive skills
• Open Communication-helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management
• Democracy-helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
• Social Responsibility-helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships
• Growth and Change-helping to work through loss and prepare for the future

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