Youth Care

Department: Night Youth Care

Supervisor: Night Youth Care Supervisor

Qualifications: 21 years of age with a high school diploma, GED or HiSET

Position Summary: Monitoring the safety and security of all residents, completing bed checks, maintaining security of the buildings, and supervising and assisting residents during their morning routines. This position requires twenty-five (25) hours of training per year.

Special Working Conditions: Awake all night long and working with potentially aggressive adolescent boys.

Schedule: Every Monday and Tuesday 10:30pm - 0830:am

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Check in and review the Night Youth Care daily checklist with the Youth Care every evening.
• Check that all designated and exterior doors are secured.
• Check in with the Lead Night YCS at the bottom of every hour.
• Perform and document room/resident checks every 15 minutes or more often if necessary. This procedure must include physical movement or physical evidence such as skin or hair to insure 100% certainty that the individual is present.
• Complete the Night Youthcare log each night and the observation reports for the psychiatrist as needed.
• Check with any visitors or uninvited persons as to their business on Ranch.
• Be willing and able to participate in and/or initiate physical control interventions using Safe Crisis Management techniques when necessary.
• Obtain a valid Class E Missouri driver's license and transport residents if and when necessary.
• Provide guidance, instruction, and supervision through therapeutic interaction with each resident and /or group of residents.
• Attend all necessary training in-services and other applicable meetings.
• Must be a positive role model and be sensitive and responsive to cultural differences in staff and resident populations.
• Assist in keeping the dorm orderly, clean, and organized.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits Offered:

• Vacation, Personal/Sick, and Maternity leave on day one of employment for full-time and part-time employees
• Paid Holidays for full-time and part-time employees