Youth Leadership Specialist (6am to 6pm)

Job Title: Youth Leadership Specialist

Reporting to: Housing Director

Location: The Core Collective at Saint Vincent

Mission Statement:
At The Core Collective, we are on a mission to make wellbeing the standard for St.
Louis. We improve healthcare for families, advance socio-economic equity, and
activate conscious leaders.

Guided by our core values of Wellbeing, Healing, Community, Compassion, and
Trust, we are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive environment where
everyone can thrive.

Position Overview:
The Youth Leadership Specialist reports directly to the Housing Director. This
position offers a great schedule for work-life balance. The individuals in this role
work 12 hours shifts and only report to the facility 3.5 days per week. The Youth
Leadership Specialist provides guidance, support, supervision, and training to the
Youth Development staff. The Leader primarily is responsible for overseeing the
daily operations of the residential programs and ensuring the daily implementation
of the schedule, groups, and activities for residents.

The Leader is responsible for coordinating and ensuring that services are
implemented for assigned treatment services, completing, and overseeing that
accurate documentation of services is maintained and that the daily routine of the
facility is upheld. The Leader will provide mentorship and training to youth
development staff to ensure that daily supervision and care of the youth is following
The Core Collective at St. Vincent’s policy and procedures. In addition, the Youth Leadership Specialist provides quality crisis intervention and
prevention services to the residents.

Qualifications:

• Must possess a bachelor's degree in social services or related field
• Must become certified in Safe Crisis Management (SCM) restraint techniques,

community First Aid/CPR, and Level I medication technician within 30 days of
hire. (Agency provided training)

• Must pass Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect check, criminal

background checks, and pre-employment drug testing

• Must obtain a Class E driver’s license within 45 days of hire
• Must be 21 years of age
• Must be able to attend and assist in facilitating mandatory staff training and

staff meetings

• Must maintain strict confidentiality of all personnel and client identities,

records, and information

Responsibilities: Carries out the Mission of The Core Collective at St. Vincent by:

• Provide supportive leadership, reflective supervision, and case consultation to

program staff; responsible for hiring, training, and evaluation of assigned
staff

• Forms a trusting relationship with the youth, provides and assures some

stability along with nurturing and limit setting, demonstrating an
understanding of the emotional needs of the youth at all times. Will also role
model this to staff as situations arise.

• Manage services and practices such that day-to-day operations are carried

out which maximize efficiency, productivity, a harmonious working
environment, and provide quality services to individuals

• Assessing residents’ needs during any crisis, including suicide lethality

assessment

• Monitoring resident’s de-escalation and processing event and consequences

of the event with a resident

• Assists with making arrangements for and coordinating transportation to

school, medical, mental health appointments for clients

• Assists with orientation, client intakes, screenings, and assessment of newly

admitted youth after hours as well as discharge planning

• Answer all calls on the Supervisors phone using a soothing/trauma-informed

voice due to the traumatic experiences that the referent may be feeling
which can be dehumanizing, shocking, or terrifying, singular, or multiple
compounding events over time

• Coordinate, track, and ensure that a structured monthly calendar is being

followed for recreational, psycho-educational and cultural activities for
residents. This includes appropriate community based and in-house activities,
groups, and outings for residents

• Maintain shift scheduling and providing staff breaks while monitoring staffing

to census and minimizing utilization of overtime; holding staff accountable for
working scheduled shifts, providing relief childcare, as needed

• Ensure all staff receive a Personal Performance Review at 3 months and each

year based on ongoing monitoring and coaching, according to guidelines
outlined in the Personnel Policies Manual

• Maintain complete and accurate records, complete Supervisory Checklists;

incident reports, prepare written reports and logs

• Providing weekly group supervision to shift staff, orientation, and training to

shift staff, providing appropriate disciplinary response in event of staff
performance problems

• Communicating all concerns, incidents, and disciplinary issues to Housing Director
• Completing shift change-over with other supervisors, i.e. checking

apartments for cleanliness and staff presence on shift

• Assists with orientation of newly hired staff members of the Residential

program attend outside training and provides the knowledge gained to co-
workers by conducting both formal and informal training at The Core
Collective, and assists in identifying the educational needs of others.

• Maintain professional boundaries with clients and demonstrate/ensure that

healthy staff-to-client working relationships are maintained.

• Maintaining courteous and professional relationships with leaders, co-workers, clients, client family members, and referral agency staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge/Skills:

• The ability to work cooperatively with others to achieve shared goals,

showing diplomacy and flexibility when there are conflicting opinions
supporting other people's performance to achieve the best possible results

• The ability to take control of a situation and to lead by empowering others

into an effective team. Inspiring and energizing others to carry out tasks and
achieve goals by displaying a clear sense of direction and values

• The ability to relate to, and feel comfortable with, people at all levels and to

be able to make and maintain good working relationships with co-workers,
supervisors, representatives of other agencies, and the public

• The ability to write concisely and convey meaning in a manner appropriate to

different readers, presenting a persuasive argument

• The ability to respond to, anticipate, and positively manage change, as it

related to the youth

• Flexible team player who thrives in environments requiring the ability to

effectively prioritize and juggle multiple concurrent tasks

• The ability to relate to your coworkers, inspire others to participate, and

mitigate conflict with coworkers

• The ability to design, plan, organize, and implement projects and tasks within

an allotted timeframe

• Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of

alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problem

• The ability to follow policies, regulations, and laws pertaining to the delivery

of human services

• Knowledge in mental health, trauma, substance abuse, homelessness, etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, assessment tools, database systems, and

Windows environment

Employee acknowledges and understands that The Core Collective reserves the
right to modify the contents of this job description or to assign alternate and
additional duties and responsibilities. Nothing in this job description is intended to
alter or alters the at-will nature of employees' employment at The Core Collective at
St. Vincent.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Can you describe your understanding of our mission to make wellbeing the standard for Saint Louis? How do you see yourself contributing to this mission in your role?
• As this role is focused on the care and protection of youth, it is important that all applicants meet the necessary legal and safety standards. Do you have any pending court cases or hearings that could affect your ability to perform the duties of this position?
• Since this role involves working closely with youth, we must ensure that all applicants meet legal and safety standards. Have you had a DWI/DUI conviction in the past 5 years?
• Are you aware of your personal triggers? Can you share a strategy you use to calm yourself down when you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed?
• If you had to describe a superpower you bring to this job, what would it be and why? How do you believe this superpower will benefit our organization and the youth we serve?

Ability to Commute:

• St. Louis, MO 63121 (Required)

Work Location: In person

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