Teen Parent Specialist I AM

Work Days: Tuesday thru Saturday

Work Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Work Location: 1115 Mission Rd., San Antonio, TX 78210

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: Responsible for the overall wellbeing, care and supervision of adolescent mothers’ ages 12-18, young adults 18-21 years old and their children ages 0-5 years old. The Teen Parent Specialist works in providing services to clients in a residential setting and applies trauma-informed practices to provide a safe and caring environment. This role is authorized to take reasonable action necessary to carry out responsibilities assigned as long as such actions do not deviate from established organizational policies and are consistent with program guidelines and sound professional judgment.

Position Responsibilities:

• Plan, lead and implement parenting, educational, independent living skills, and recreational activities during your shift as assigned.
• Build a positive relationship with each program participant and foster positive connections with mothers and their children.
• Effectively manage the group of children assigned to you.
• Maintain and enforce agency policies and procedures to maintain youth rights and appropriate discipline.
• Actively engage with participants with the goal of fostering positive and age appropriate development of each participant.
• Ability to meet deadlines and documentation completely and accurately in accordance with state licensing, contractors, and various funders.
• Conduct yourself in a professional manner as a representative of Seton Home with participants, staff, children, school staff and anyone who comes in contact with your role.
• Maintain positive culturally competent relationships with residents and staff.
• Required and responsible for documenting client progress and interactions via online database(s).
• Follow reporting and notification protocol for serious incidents.
• Adhering to safety training and protocols on a daily basis, and taking precautionary measures to ensure the safety and well-being of self, others.
• Responsible for administering medication, as needed, to residents and their children.
• Provide input into development of resident treatment and service plans as appropriate to your supervisor.
• Learn and practice DFPS Client Youth Rights, Minimum Standards, contractor and funder requirements.
• Assume responsibility for transportation when needed to airport, court, activities, hospital emergencies, and other appointments as needed and when transporter is not available.
• Responsible for the care of tender age children 0-5 in the event that the mother refuses to parent child.
• Maintain and uphold agency policies regarding professional boundaries with clients.
• Apply de-escalation techniques and Emergency Behavior Intervention techniques as trained.
• Gain a working knowledge of policies.
• Possess maturity, sense of confidence and emotional stability.
• Must be sensitive to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Responsible for protecting the confidentiality of any information or material obtained in the service with the organization.
• Adherence to the Code of Conduct and the Faith and Moral is mandatory.
• Every employee is required to take a solution-oriented approach in their interactions and undertakings, as well as being a team member that promotes collaboration and commitment to the Mission and Vision of the organization.
• As a Seton Home employee, attendance and successful completion of New Employee Orientation and Training is mandated for the position.
• Other duties as assigned.

Shift Specific Expectation & Responsibilities:

• Participate in shift transition to obtain information regarding resident’s well-being, areas of concern, updates from the leadership team, etc.
• Conduct medical cart exchange between shift transition to verify medications are accounted for and have been administered and properly logged on the medication logs.
• Administer prescribed and OTC medications to clients and their children, as needed.
• Ensure that residents and their children are woken up with sufficient time to prepare for their day and inform them of any appointments, meetings or sessions scheduled for the day according to the program daily calendar.
• Transport clients to where they need to be, as needed.
• Supervise, interact and engage clients who are unable to attend school/work.
• Teach resident life-skills through daily interactions and assist residents with tasks as necessary.
• Ensure basic needs of all participants and their children are met.
• Complete room and safety checks with the goal to maintain a safe physical environment for all participants of the program.
• Document client progress and interactions/services provided via online database system(s).
• Document and notify shift supervisor of any serious incident occurrences.
• Lead and participate in client activities that are assigned during your shift; ensuring to document participation status in resident Activity Logs.
• Process new medication and discard expired or discontinued medication, as necessary or directed by supervisor.
• Process and distribute requested needs such as hygiene products, clothing, toiletries, etc. and document accordingly and timely in agency database.
• Complete transition report with oncoming shift.

Competencies:

• Adaptability – Ability to adjust to changing conditions and remain committed to excellence.
• Communication – Ability to effectively share information and ideas of various degrees of difficulty and sensitivity through different means of communication and to diverse audiences.
• Critical Thinking – Ability to actively and skillfully process and generate information and belief using a set of core skills.
• De-escalation – Ability to sense a potential or occurring crisis or volatile situation and engage in a manner that reduces the intensity or conflict.
• Empathy – Ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
• Resilience – Ability to deal effectively with pressure, and remain optimistic and persistent, despite challenging situations.
• Solution Oriented – Ability to identify various challenges, think outside the box, be innovative, and formulate possible solutions.
• Stress Management – Ability to remain focused and use emotional intelligence despite stressful situations and competing priorities.
• Teamwork – Ability to listen and respond constructively with others fostering collaboration and team success.
• Technology – Ability to apply technical knowledge and skills to solve a wide range of complex challenges.

Requirements:

• Minimum Qualifications: Education and Experience: Associate’s Degree Preferred in a Human Services Field, Education, Psychology etc. Minimum High School Diploma or GED.

Physical Demands:

• Frequency Lifting up to 20 to 40 pounds
• Reach above shoulder height
• Sitting
• Reach below shoulder height
• Walking
• Driving
• Running
• Stooping
• Standing
• Pushing
• Bending waist (forward or sideways)
• Pulling
• Balancing
• Talking
• Squatting
• Hearing
• Climbing
• Crawling
• Repetitive motions

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.

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 www.setonhomesa.org. 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.