Youth Care Staff – Teton Youth and Family Services

Full/Part Time: Full Time
Job Title: Youth Care Staff
Exempt/Non-Exempt: Non-Exempt
Supervisor: House Manager
Salary/Hourly Wage: $25.00/hour

Benefits:
● Vacation

• Year 1 – 5 Days or 40 Hours
• Year 2 – 10 Days or 80 Hours
• Year 3 – 12 Days or 96 Hours

• Sick
  • 48 hours accrued per year, does not roll over.
• Health Insurance – Starts 60 days after full-time hire date on the 1st of the month
• Retirement – 3% employer match Simple IRA contribution

Position Overview:

Teton Youth and Family Services is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Youth Care Staff. Based on agency needs, our staff may be asked to work flexibly across both the Van Vleck House (group home) and Red Top Meadows (residential treatment facility). We serve adolescents in each facility and focus on areas including self-esteem, communication, anger management, emotional regulation, and healthy relationships.

Our organization operates 24/7, 365 days a year, providing care and support to youth in need. Youth Care staff are responsible for the daily supervision of our residents at either our residential treatment facility or our group home and crisis shelter. They build therapeutic relationships with our clients and create a safe and predictable environment. Creating this environment requires establishing healthy boundaries, reinforcing choices and behaviors through the use of natural and logical consequences, helping residents develop internal self-control by highlighting new growth and change as well as engaging in enriching activities.

Youth Care staff may work in shifts up to 16 hours, which could include overnight shifts. This is more than a seasonal job, we desire a year long commitment

Responsibilities:

1. Participate in implementing student treatment plans, including but not limited to:
   1. Be knowledgeable of each student’s treatment issues, goals, and skills.
   2. Develop a therapeutic relationship with students by being a positive, consistent, responsible, caring adult.
   3. Be an active listener.
   4. Help students relate daily issues and their daily lives to treatment issues, goals, and skills.
   5. Assist students with Stage or Phase System assignments.
   6. Exchange information through the Electronic Medical Record and staff meetings regarding perceptions and ideas about students’ behaviors and progress.
   7. Complete daily logs on student’s behavior.
2. Supervise therapeutic, structured living environment including but not limited to:
   1. Supervise daily schedule i.e. mealtimes, free time, unit/packet work, quiet hour, bedtime, and activities (supervising includes getting kids involved, involving yourself, observing, maintaining physical and emotional safety, and when appropriate #1 above).
   2. Perform daily checks on student’s rooms for cleanliness.
   3. Help prepare meals.
   4. Serve as a viable role model for prosocial behavior.
   5. Enforce program rules and provide consequences following appropriate procedures described in the staff handbook.

3. Follow procedures for licensed child-care agencies, including, but not limited to, writing critical incident reports within twenty-four (24) hours; keeping medication administration logs; storing medications properly; following proper kitchen clean-up and food storage procedures; conducting monthly emergency drills; and maintaining the safety of students. See the Staff Handbook for these and other procedures.

4. Supervise the upkeep and maintenance of the program’s physical plant. Ensure cleanliness of living and eating areas; ensure that grounds are neat and seasonal yard work/snow removal is done; complete minor maintenance tasks as able and report others to the Director; assign and supervise student clean-up jobs (deep room clean, unit work, and major clean-up).

5. Assist in the classroom as directed by the teaching staff.

6. Continue professional development. Participate in ongoing Supervision with Staff Development and Program Managers throughout each shift. Attend monthly all-staff meetings, attend scheduled in-service training, Weekly meetings for Group Home full-time staff and attend professional seminars as requested by the Director.

7. Required to be available for on-call holding facility schedule as needed. Includes additional compensation.

8. Assume other duties assigned by the management team.

9. Due to the nature of Red Top Meadows’ location, one youth care staff member will be scheduled and required to stay overnight to provide support should night staff need it in an emergency. Youth care staff members will have adequate sleeping quarters and must sleep inside the facility.

a. If scheduled to sleep at RTM, staff members will be paid $7.25 per hour (minimum wage) during the overnight scheduled shift. This hourly rate will not be eligible for
overtime pay and will remain the same regardless of whether staff members are woken up during the night.

Minimum requirements: The candidate must be 21+ years old, willing to submit a background check, have a valid driver’s license, a High School Diploma or equivalent, be eager to learn our therapeutic approach, and be willing to engage with youth.