Summary: Are you passionate about ensuring the safety and well-being of youth? Join our dedicated team at Youth and Residential Services as a Youth Program Driver and Support Staff. This vital role involves secure transportation of participants, delivering supplies, and maintaining a safe residential environment. If you have a heart for youth well-being and safety, and you're eager to make a positive impact, apply now to contribute to our dynamic programs. If you are committed to youth safety and well-being, apply now to be a part of our impactful Youth and Residential Services team. Your dedication can contribute to creating a positive and supportive environment for the participants we serve. Join us in making a lasting difference in their lives!

Our Benefits:

• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Paid maternity leave.
• Paid paternity leave.
• Commuter benefits.
• Student loan assistance.
• Tuition assistance.
• Disability insurance.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Safely transports program participants using agency vehicles or public transportation.
• Drives throughout Chicago and nearby areas for food delivery and supply pickups.
• Supervises and ensures the safety of program participants individually or in groups.
• Respond effectively to unexpected situations and crises during transport, communicating promptly with supervisors.
• Assists in maintaining company vehicles, and reporting issues to management regularly.
• Participates in program activities, and events, and maintains overall cleanliness of the residential program.
• Responds immediately to security and safety breaches, providing physical restraint as needed, per restraint and crisis intervention training and program guidelines.
• Completes necessary forms and reports accurately and promptly.
• Performs housekeeping duties, including cleaning, laundering, and meal preparation.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of three years of experience working with youth, or in security, transportation, general professional driving, general warehouse, or the military.
• Fluency in a second language may be required.
• Valid driver’s license required; CDL License with a passenger endorsement preferred.
• Clean driving record complying with DCFS’ requirements for drivers.
• Successful completion of a criminal background check.

Work Environment:

• YRS program sites operate 24/7, requiring flexibility in work location and scheduling.
• Three primary shifts scheduled each day, including weekends and holidays. Employees may be required to work any one of these shifts and, if necessary, may be required to work a split shift, or an extended or shorter shift, based on the needs of the program.
• Employees may be required to work at various YRS facilities as necessitated by program needs.
• Crisis prevention and behavioral management techniques may include physically restraining and escorting participants.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to assist in physically restraining youth with proper training.
• Regular use of hands, standing, walking, bending, stooping, squatting, climbing, twisting, turning, and reaching.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
Heartland Human Care Services makes all hiring and employment decisions, and operates all programs, services, and functions without regard to race, receipt of an order of protection, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, amnesty, physical or mental disability, protected veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, use of FMLA, VESSA, military, and family military rights, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight, or HIV infection, in accord with the organization's AIDS Policy Statement of September 1987.