Youth Counselor - Part time - Kalispell - Youth Homes - Montana
Kalispell, MT
About the Job
General Objective: The Youth Counselor Part time is a part time entry level position that provides general care of at-risk children and youth and manages the treatment milieu and routine within a home.
Examples of Tasks:
- Assist regular child-care staff in their duties, to include:
- Managing group living and care, including:
- Overseeing preparation and delivery of meals
- Providing for transportation or residents
- Managing positive interaction and conflict resolution.
- Overseeing chores and general house cleaning/maintenance.
- Participating in house groups.
Work with youngsters in care, including:
- Providing guidance.
- Helping with life planning.
- Teaching life skills.
- Teaching and modeling communication skills.
- Assisting with relationship building skills.
- Teaching life skills.
- Teaching and modeling recreation skills.
Assisting implementation of recreational programs and activities:
- Supervising group recreational activities.
- Providing encouragement to residents to become involved in recreational activities outside of the Home.
- Monitoring individual physical programs.
Meeting individual client needs:
- Providing individualized care.
- Providing appropriate and individual attention to youth in care.
- Doing informal counseling
- Participating in group therapy sessions.
- Advocating for needs of children.
Monitor individual behavior of youngsters in care.
- Example of tasks:
- Provide praise and reward for positive behavior.
- Do intervention or confrontation of negative or destructive behavior.
- Give consequences.
- Teach and model appropriate behaviors.
- Record behavioral data.
- Maintain program structure and assist with program accountability. Example of tasks:
- Provide input to individual treatment plans.
- Make entries in administrative and behavioral logs.
- Document incidents.
- Stay abreast of all information in logs.
- Write reports as necessary and required or requested.
- Attend and participate in relief staff meetings.
- Attend and assist with Corporate functions and meetings, as requested.
Responsibilities:
- Provide a safe living environment.
- Operate program as designed and directed.
- Accept supervision.
- Work within a team approach to treatment.
- Be available to have relationships with children in care.
- Communicate clearly, precisely and directly.
- Respond to needs of children in care.
- Provide consistency and structure.
- Be a role model.
- Requirements:
- Sound moral character.
- Experience working with troubled youth in a paid or volunteer setting.
- Knowledge of adolescent development.
- Talents for supervising and working with young people.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs as needed.
- Ability to climb stairs as needed.
- At minimum must accept at least one shift every three weeks.
Employment:
- Base salary at Grade 2 of Youth Homes' Salary Schedule.
- Probation for six months
OPEN UNTIL FILLED
Source : Youth Homes - Montana