ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES including the following. Other duties may be assigned.

-Responsible for immediate crisis child intervention support for all facets of programming during scheduled shift.

-Coordinates and implements intervention strategies with the child and youth care staff and on-duty administrators.

-Arranges staff coverage during an unexpected staff shortage with the assistance of the Unit Supervisor.

-Aware at all times of schedules.

-Spends time on every unit and in group homes interacting and observing staff and children, and introduces shift to all new children.

-Makes suggestions to child and youth care workers re: techniques to utilize for effective interactions as the need arises.

-Maintains log entries of incidents throughout shifts.

-Communicates to the in-house supervisor and/or programs coordinator any concerns about workers not following established procedures in an acceptable manner.

-Assists with the supervision of family visits when necessary.

-Supervises meals, and transportation as needed.

-Implements any continuous quality improvement procedures requested by the Continuous Quality Improvement Director.

-Whenever possible, meets any reasonable need that direct care staff has during a shift to ensure quality services to the children.

-Serves as a liaison within the police department and other community groups as the need arises.

-Completes police reports.

-Responsible for communication with on duty worker.

-Visits house to house at various periodic intervals to check in with staff at least once every 2 hours of a shift.

-Contacts on duty administrator when further crisis intervention assistance is required.

-Prepares and/or reviews any incident reports that they are involved in during the shift.

-Meets training requirements.