Youth Counselor - Part time - Missoula - Youth Homes - Montana

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