Youth Counselor Richmond Hill
Youth Counselor Richmond Hill
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$ 45000 - 53000
1 Vacancy
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Description
The Youth Counselor works as scheduled in the Group Home 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.
Responsibilities:
- Provides a warm homelike atmosphere by establishing an individual relationship with each resident focusing on that residents 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.
- Monitors each youths physical wellbeing ensuring suitable clothing adequate food and all required medical treatments including medication dispensing.
- Communicates and enforces Group Home rules with each child; applies discipline as outlined in Group Home 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
- Must have the ability to support nurture and discipline children in a structured environment as evidence by 1 year professional child care experience.
- Experience in working with diverse communities and knowledge of multicultural issues including race class ethnicity sexual orientation gender expression etc.
- Must comply with all agency policies and procedures.
- Must project emotional stability and authority to form an appropriate role model relationship with children.
- Must have proven skills in cooking and household maintenance.
Benefits:
- Rewarding Work in a team environment;
- Paid vacation sick personal days and holidays;
- 403(B) retirement plan with employer contribution;
- Health dental vision and life insurance;
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP);
- Flexible spending account (Dependent Care Medical Parking and Transit);
- Employee Appreciation Programs and Events;
- Tuition Assistance Program;
- Professional Development opportunities;
- Gympass Discount
- Verizon Wireless Discount;
- BJs Membership discount;
- Discounts on Broadway tickets movie tickets theme parks sporting events gift certificates & more
HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process please reach out to
About HeartShare
Who WE ARE:
For over one hundred 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.
To learn more about HeartShare please visit our website at www.heartshare or Follow us on Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Instagram Facebook
Employment Type
Full-Time
