- Provide positive role-modeling to youth.
- Promote self-esteem.
- Promote healthy boundaries.
- Promote good hygiene and appropriate personal appearance among youth.
- Reinforce socially acceptable behaviors (ex: manners, eating habits, safety).
- Teach and reinforce thoughtful decision-making.
- Assessing youth history of trauma, strengths, and needs.
- Assist in administering SFSS.
- Prove support to meet youth's health, well-being, education, mental health, and reunification needs.
- Participate in Team Meetings for all youth.
- Collaborate with other programs in the CHRIS 180 continuum to provide services to residents.
- Collaborate and consult with other providers and entities in the provision of the best care services to residents.
- Monitor the provision of services provided, including medical and behavioral health services.
- Provide a safe, nurturing, consistent and caring atmosphere for youth in care.
- Support the consistent rhythms and routines of the home.
- Responsible for transportation to and communication with the school environment.
- Transport youth as required.
- Care for program facilities and equipment: organizing, cleaning, sanitizing. Household tasks and duties as assigned, or as needed, to promote a clean, safe, and comfortable environment.
- Cook balanced, healthy meals for youth and provide life skills training and supervision regarding menu planning and cooking.
- Assure safety in the home by conducting room inspections and securing potentially hazardous equipment and/or cleaning products.
- Assure youth safety in the home by monitoring youth interactions, remaining mindfully attuned to escalating emotions, and intervening with calming and de-escalation interventions and strategies to diffuse interpersonal tensions.
- As a last resort, safely implements Mindset restraint techniques to prevent harm.
- Support routines of youth through assisting and supervising wake-up, bedtime, personal care routines, completion of chores and laundry, meals, meal preparation, recreational activities, homework supervision, and assistance.
- Maintain awareness of each youth's history of trauma, developmental age, medications, strengths, skills, and abilities and use such information to guide interactions and interventions with the resident.
- Plan and actively participate in activities to support and increase skills and competencies.
- Engage youth in planning activities whenever reasonable to do so.
- Work as part of a team to identify needs and strategies to meet those needs. Implement identified strategies for youth to ensure needs are met.
- Work with the on-call supervisory structure to assure safety for the home, youth, and staff after hours.
- Assure medical and behavioral health needs are met in a timely and efficient fashion.
- Aware of a current safety plan for all youth and able to implement it.
- Assist House Supervisor and Lead staff in meeting the needs of youth and home by shopping, collaboratively planning menus, attending meetings, and maintaining communication with all stakeholders.
- Document significant incidents in the KaleidaCare MIS before the end of the shift.
- Document all medical and dental appointments in the KaleidaCare system.
- Document visits, meetings, and court dates as case notes in K-Care.
- Maintain the files/charts on each child while in placement.
- Review medication administration records daily for accuracy.
- Maintain confidentiality of client information.
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
- Works on other duties, tasks, and projects as assigned.
- Ensures agency compliance with National Council on Accreditation and other mandatory regulations/standards.
- Lives and works by the CHRIS 180 Values and Code of Ethics
- Follow mandated reporting requirements of the GA Code.
- Support and maintain an environment of emotional and physical safety for youth, staff, and other stakeholders.
- Promote a positive image of CHRIS 180 programs at all times.
- Work as a contributing and collaborative team member.
- Respond to client and peer needs in a timely fashion.
- Answer telephone calls and emails accordingly.
- Respond to requests for information from stakeholders in a timely fashion.
- Work with sponsors, education professionals, court officials, and other stakeholders and a helpful and professional manner.
- Must be bilingual in English and Spanish
- High school diploma or equivalent degree, required.
- Advanced education preferred.
- A minimum of 1 year child welfare experience working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting, required.
- Prior experience working with the immigrant/refugee population, strongly preferred
- Must be at least 25 years of age.
- Occasionally required to stand, walk, or sit; use finger dexterity, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Occasionally required to move or lift items up to 25 pounds in weight.
- Must pass a criminal history screen, including state and local child protection agency registries.
- Possess a valid driver's license.
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Description
Job Description
Job DescriptionNew Hire Sign-On Bonus: $1,500.00
Position Summary:
CHRIS 180 Migrant Wellness Program provides 24-hour care for unaccompanied children (UC) under the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) who are placed in residential care as they prepare for sponsorship. The program provides stabilization, behavioral support, comprehensive case management, educational services, daily living skills acquisition, recreational and therapeutic activities, and coordination of care. The Migrant Wellness Program provides a family-involved, trauma-informed, and strengths-based approach to care within residential communities throughout the Atlanta area.
Direct care of children and/or adolescents in placement includes an extensive range of responsibilities including
documentation, activities, supervision, and safety. Because of the complex backgrounds and trauma histories that our youth have experienced in their home countries and during their journey to the U.S., staff must not only provide adequate safety and supervision, but must be actively engaged in the process of building relationships, understanding and solving problems in a team dynamic, and offer energy, security and commitment in their work with our youth through genuine, caring and empathetic engagement. This position includes direct supervision of youth and administrative responsibilities such as incident reporting, case notes, and transportation to medical appointments.
Role and Responsibilities:
The primary responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Duties:
Documentation Requirements:
Performance and Conduct:
Demonstrate Customer Service:
Qualifications/Competencies:
Salary: $24.00/hr. & $1,500.00 New Hire Sign-On Bonus
Schedule: On-site
The hours will vary from week to week with a maximum of 40 hours a week at any given time unless written permission
is given otherwise. Schedule will include weekdays, weekends, and Holidays.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully
perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required
to sit, stand, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
This position is grant-funded and on-site.