What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Care Specialist position at Youth Oasis?
We are looking for someone to join our team as a Overnight Residential Care Assistant in our Transitional Living Program for youth and young adults, ages 16-21. The selected persons must have flexibility in their schedule as both weekends, weekdays, and holidays are required. Our ideal candidate will have the availability to work days and overnights.
This is an overnight position (12 a- 8 a Monday-Friday and 12 a - 12 p on weekends). Training and staff meetings take place during the daytime and the candidate must be able to participate.
To perform this job successfully, the individual should demonstrate the following abilities:
Sensitivity:Communicates empathy and respect of individuals; ability to be appreciative of diversity.
Conflict Management:Effectively manages disagreements.
Change Agility:Able to embrace needed change; able to provide and implement feedback; effective in the face of ambiguity.
Youth Orientation:Actively seeks feedback from youth; establishes effective relationships with youth; knowledgeable about issues facing homeless youth and an understanding of the experiences they are going through.
Integrity:Must be honest and take responsibility for actions; ability to set healthy limits and maintain the helping role of practitioner.
Positive Impact:Have a passion for Youth Oasis’ mission and vision; a belief in the capacity for a young person to change; display a positive attitude.
Learning Agility:Seeks to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities in related service areas; implement core principles and evidence-based practices including, but not limited to: Positive Youth Development, Trauma Informed Care, Restorative practices, and Youth Mental Health First Aid.
Creativity:Resourceful in finding ways to improve and advocate for change when necessary; fosters creativity in others.
Active Listening:Ability to effectively work independently and in partnership with team members; ability to communicate effectively with youth, and others.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate provision of basic care and supervision for up to sixteen youth at a time who are in placement;
- Facilitate all youth related program activities, make routine checks on all facilities and ensures safety, and appropriately respond to emergencies;
- Respond to any program emergency including those that involve police, paramedics, fire department, ;
- Complete developmentally appropriate assessment activities with youth as determined by program and youth’s needs;
- Tailor service provision to the current needs of the youth;
- Ability to communicate effectively with familiarity on topics of interest to youth;
- Provide opportunities and encourage youth to participate in healthy activities;
- Engage youth in health related communication and knowledge;
- Coordinate safety planning and crisis response of youth when needed;Must be willing to have a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the youth and program;.
- Other duties as assigned
- Attend 5 day orientation through the week
- Participate in ongoing training and staff meetings
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $12.00 - $16.45 per hour
Benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Vision Insurance
Work Location: In person
Salary : $12 - $16