Youth Care Worker - Bilingual (Spanish) in Cowfold

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate commitment to the agency’s mission to foster the physical, spiritual, emotional, and social development of emotionally impaired adolescents/young adults.
• Support the creation of a trauma informed community for the youth and family.
• Regularly monitor, and intervene as needed according to the individual's treatment plan, residents' interactions with peers and staff, changes in behavior, mood and emotional state, whereabouts, compliance with program expectations.
• Present an appropriate, positive role model for the residents in speech, behavior, and dress.
• Physically and psychologically able to actively and safely supervise groups of emotionally and behaviorally challenged adolescent/young adult residents.
• Ability to work scheduled days and hours as assigned by supervisor and accommodate potential last‑minute schedule changes caused by illness, staff shortage and other emergencies.
• Ability to actively participate in and successfully complete all state mandated orientation and training.
• Ability to safely operate a 10‑passenger school vehicle and maintain insurability for driving with the Archdiocesan Insurance Office.

Other Duties and Responsibilities – Youth Focus

• Provide and maintain a safe and structured environment for all residents.
• Support youth in planning and implementation of daily life skills such as meals, housekeeping, budgeting, etc.
• Maintain client and employee confidentiality at all times.
• Monitor carefully and follow physician’s and supervisor’s instructions when a resident is identified as ill by the treating physician or SFSV Homes medical policies and procedures.
• Be especially sensitive to the resident’s needs and condition.
• Help maintain health standards and ensure cleanliness and orderliness of program shared space and support youth with apartments.
• Demonstrate comfort and competence in counseling residents individually and in groups.
• Assist with residents’ medical needs and maintain medical log.
• Administer appropriate medication as necessary, following agency medication guidelines for psychotropic and non‑psychotropic medications.
• Be responsible for discipline within the group and act appropriately in an authoritative manner, maintaining appropriate control at all times.
• Immediately inform supervisor or other appropriate personnel of any unusual resident behavior as well as any issues of abuse or neglect that are observed or reported by residents or others.
• Follow agency Alert and emergency calling chain procedures for all Alerts, resident medical concerns, AWOLs, and other resident critical incidents.
• Be active in directing the residents toward appropriate recreational and educational activities in apartment, home, community, and at school.
• Participate when appropriate.
• Emphasize the importance of education and monitor and assist the residents with homework.
• Teach the residents appropriate shopping skills and proper care of clothing.
• Assist as needed.
• Teach moral and ethical values by word and example.
• Provide opportunities for residents’ religious and spiritual growth and take residents to religious services as required.
• Teach residents how to clean properly and assist as needed.
• Ensure that all common areas and residents’ rooms are kept neat and clean.
• Instruct the residents in the development of appropriate habits that will assist them in meeting recognized social expectations (cleanliness, eating habits, sexuality, manners, personal appearance, etc.).
• Instruct residents in proper money management.
• Emphasize the importance of work and assist residents in obtaining jobs as appropriate.
• Drive residents to various activities when needed for clinical and medical appointments, home visits, recreation and other assigned activities.
• Ensure that seat belts are worn at all times.
• Obey all traffic laws, including speed limits, when driving.
• Do not operate a cell phone while you are driving.
• Understand and follow all restrictive procedure policies and procedures regarding CPI, escorts, and physical interventions.

Third Shift Responsibilities

• Remain awake, alert and vigilant throughout the entire shift.
• Calculate and record program points for each resident.
• File paperwork as necessary.
• Remain located in a central place in the group home to assure residents are following the program rules.
• Conduct bed checks every 15 minutes to verify each resident is asleep in his assigned bed.
• Vary routine throughout the night when conducting bed checks.
• Wash and dry residents clothing, towels, linens, etc.
• Conduct wake‑ups as scheduled ensuring that each resident makes their bed and cleans their room.
• Serve breakfast according to menu and schedule.
• Ensure that residents are appropriately washed and dressed.
• Ensure that residents leave for school on time.
• Transport as necessary.

Other Duties and Responsibilities: Team/Program Focus

• Ability and willingness to follow supervisory directives and complete assigned tasks and functions in a timely manner.
• Work cooperatively and effectively and communicate with other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Know and implement program rules and expectations.
• Attend and participate productively in all required meetings and supervisory meetings.
• Observe and maintain accurate and professional written records on the behavior and development of each resident and program documentation (daily log, incident reports, summaries and assessments, level system, inventories, etc.).
• Be accountable for budget monies provided for shopping, activities, and other assigned tasks.
• Treat all agency property, including vehicles, with proper respect and teach residents to do so as well.
• Keep agency vehicles clean and report damage and maintenance issues promptly.
• Provide coverage at other group homes as assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Valid Pennsylvania (or state of residence) driver’s license and a clean driving record for the previous three years.
• Must be able to get approval to drive from the Archdiocesan Insurance Office.
• Valid, timely Child Abuse, Criminal History, and FBI clearances that meet all regulatory requirements.
• Good oral and written communications skills in English.
• Ability to safely perform occasional physical escorts and restraints of adolescent males or females according to training (provided) and agency policies and procedures as required.
• Ability to work effectively in a faith‑based organization.

Physical Requirements

• This job requires daily interaction with adolescents/young adults who can be verbally and physically assaultive.
• This work is performed primarily indoors and occasionally outdoors.
• This job requires the staff member to perform First Aid, CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) if needed. (Training will be provided by SFSV.)
• This job requires intervening when residents become physically assaultive.
• This work requires frequently lifting up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifting/moving up to 50 pounds and lifting/moving up to 100 pounds with assistance.
• This work requires frequent sitting, walking and standing (at times exceeding periods of two hours).
• This job requires occasional bending, stooping, squatting and reaching.
• This job requires regular driving of a 10‑passenger school vehicle (for authorized drivers only).
• This job requires staff to escort residents in public locations, including movie theaters, shopping malls, restaurants and doctor’s offices.

This job description is not intended to provide an all‑inclusive listing of related job activities. Incumbent may be requested by management to perform other related activities in place of or in addition to those representative activities noted in this job description.