Bilingual Youth Care Worker OVN - Seton Home
Bilingual Youth Care Worker OVN - Seton Home
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Job Description
Mission: Seton Home works to break the cycle of abuse and poverty by providing a caring home education and support services necessary to transform the lives of pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their children.
Summary:
All Youth Care Workers may be required to work different shifts in order to meet program needs. Below is a basic description of the general tasks required to be completed throughout the day. The below tasks are only a general outline and other job duties will be assigned in order to meet program needs.
Minimum of 1year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
Position Responsibilities:
Shift Specific Expectation & Responsibilities
Overnight Routine
- *Conduct hourly bed checks throughout the night to ensure safety of residents.
- *Providing care for infants when residents ask for assistance.
- *Complete daily medication audit and email to appropriate personnel.
- *Computer related tasks: Document daily logs and incident reports using the internal database ensure important information is included.
- *Clean and make ready vacant rooms.
- *Prepare breakfast for residents on a daily basis.
- Completing shelter intake process with new arrivals as needed.
- Assisting with transporting residents to the hospital as needed.
- Ensuring that residents who are scheduled to discharge from the program are ready by the designated time.
- Check refrigerators/pantry for expired food items.
- Other duties as assigned.
Competencies:
Managing Change
Communication
Deescalation
Interpersonal Awareness
Teamwork
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education
- Minimum High School Diploma or Equivalent.
- Associate or bachelors degree preferred.
- Experience
- Minimum of 1year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
- License and Credentials
- Reliable transportation.
- Valid driver license.
- Valid vehicle insurance.
- Must provide immunization/shot records.
- Submit to a state and federal background check Child abuse and neglect registry check and Tuberculosis screening.
- Be physically mentally and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities.
Able to show proof of immunity to vaccinepreventable diseases transmitted by the respiratory route if working directly with unaccompanied children.
- Varicella: two doses of varicella vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR born in the United States before 1980 with a reported history of chickenpox (verified by an adult present at the time of illness) OR titers indicating varicella immunity OR documentation from healthcare provider verifying previous infection.
- MMR: two doses of MMR vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR titers indicating immunity to all three diseases
- DTaP or Tdap: Complete primary vaccination series. If primary vaccination series completed in childhood one DTaP dose in adulthood.
- Influenza: one dose annually during flu season.
Minimum Knowledge and Skills:
- Minimum of 1year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
- Some knowledge of computer software familiarity with or ability to utilize KaleidaCare and MS Office (i.e. MS Word Excel Outlook and OneDrive).
- Ability to set and teach trauma informed care practices.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Knowledge of human behavior and development preferred.
- Successful completion and implementation of SAMA.
- Possess sensitivity to the service populations cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
- Ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served in order to help them gain skills and confidence.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other staff members service providers and professionals.
- Capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately in order to meet service goals.
- Demonstrate a commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.
- Demonstrate a conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
- Ability to function independently and in a team setting.
- Must pass a criminal background check.
- *Bilingual: Fluent in English/Spanish with regards to reading writing speaking and comprehension of the spoken language.
Travel Requirements:
Travel requirements for the position includes 10 local and 10 overnight.
Disclaimer:
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities skills duties requirements efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job management reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies changes in personnel workload etc. ** This is a Grant funded position and salary is dependent on funding availability. Position can be eliminated at any time because of lack of funding to support this position.**
Seton Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view this and other employment opportunities please visit our website at . You must apply through our website and complete the application and upload your resume. No phone calls please. If you are chosen for an interview you will be contacted.
Employment Type
Full-Time
