Youth Counselor
Youth Counselor
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Description
The Youth Counselor works as scheduled in the Childrens Community Residence providing supervision support and direction to children fostering their positive growth and development; maintains a hazardfree clean and orderly household; prepares meals to conform to menus; completes all required logs forms and reports participates in meetings as scheduled; accompanies groups or individual children for outside activities or appointments as scheduled.
Job Responsibilities
- Providea warm homelike atmosphere by establishing an individual relationship with each resident focusing on their positive growth and development
- Under the supervision of the Supervising staff ensure an orderly schedule for the residents by supervising their daily activities: wakeup school or other program attendance mealtime study time assigned Group Home chores and bedtime; monitor individual appointments for each child to endure punctual attendance
- Monitoreach youths physical wellbeing ensuring suitable clothing adequate food and all required medical treatments including medication dispensing
- Communicateand enforces community rules with each child; applies discipline as outlined in community procedures fairly and objectively
- Accompanies and transports children to outside activities (including supervised recreation) and appointments as required
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Must have a High School diploma or equivalent
- Valid NYS drivers license preferred
- Have the ability to support nurture and discipline children in a structured environment as evidence by 1year professional childcare experience
- Project emotional stability and authority to form an appropriate role model relationship with children
- Have experience in working with diverse communities and knowledge of multicultural issues including race class ethnicity sexual orientation gender expression etc.
- Proven skills in cooking and household maintenance
- Demonstrate the ability to comply with all agency policies and procedures
Benefits
At HeartShare we offer a comprehensive benefit package based on fulltime/parttime status. You can expect:
- Paid time off (holidays vacation in accordance with school calendar sick and personal)
- Professional development opportunities
- Team environment
- Medical and dental benefits
- Employerpaid life insurance
- Optional insurance (life disability etc.
- 403(B) retirement plans
- Flexible spending account (dependent care medical parking and transit)
- Employee assistance program
HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process please reach out to .
About HeartShare
For over 100 years HeartShare has dedicated itself to improving the lives of people needing special services and support. The HeartShare team now 2100 employees and growing helps individuals develop to their fullest potential and lead meaningful and enriched lives.
Employment Type
Full-Time
