Youth Care Professional - Chatsworth, United States - Rancho San Antonio Boys Home

Description

Rancho San Antonio is a STRTP that has been serving at risk teenage boys since 1933.
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It is the mission of Rancho San Antonio to provide a person centered, trauma informed, culturally relevant and therapeutic environment where youth can successfully increase resiliency, develop skills, values and personal responsibility needed to rejoin their families and/or other permanent connection in their communities_


ROLE:

Provide trauma-informed, culturally sensitive therapeutic intervention within scope of practice to youth and families in collaboration with the Child Family Team (CFT).

Utilization of the Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) in the treatment of the youth.

Trauma Informed Care (TIC) includes primarily the use of RSA's selected Trauma Informed Care model of
Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model.

Wednesday-Saturday and Sunday-Wednesday. Shifts alternate from 9:00am to 7:00pm or 11:00am to 11:00pm as needed. We try to alternate late Friday and Saturday late nights.

To effectively supervise and provide guidance to youth and implement Rancho's trauma informed treatment guidelines. Youth are assigned to a living unit upon entry into care.

The Direct Care Staff, working as a member of a treatment team, is an important agent of change that helps set the tone in the unit, offers support, direction, and helps youth to learn effective coping skills and emotional regulation.

Staff members are responsible to assist in developing an atmosphere within the living unit that encourages youth to learn to make more appropriate choices, use better judgment, and increase chances of functioning successfully at home and in the community.

A Direct Care Staff's role is key in the positive development of youth in care.

They work in a team model to assist youth in developing regulation/life skills and supports a permanency plan which has a primary goal to connect youth to permanent relationships with caring adults.

AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Learns and utilizes ARC trauma informed care model interventions appropriate to role and scope of practice (for example: Attunement, Engagement, and Resiliency Building, etc.).
• Serves to role model the use of ARC principles, Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM), and use of the Child and Family Team (CFT) interventions.
• Supervision of youth to ensure safety.
• Provide principles of prudent parenting, understanding, support, guidance, trauma informed discipline, and modeling designed to help youth develop increased responsibility,
• Self-awareness and a pro social response to life circumstances.
• Provide for the youth' emotional, cognitive, spiritual and physical well-being.
• Familiarize self with the principles and dynamics of group therapy. Provide individual and group counseling as instructed.
• Team with other key treatment staff to support the youth's treatment plan and emotional,
• Cognitive, spiritual, and physical well-being.

TO WHOM IMMEDIATELY RESPONSIBLE:

• Unit Supervisor regarding schedules and regulations.
• Child and Family Specialist and Therapist regarding the implementation of the treatment plan.

JOB DUTIES:
(Prefer Spanish speaking)

• Serve as a member of youths' Child and Family Team (CFT) when assigned/invited and work in a collaborative team based approached with the treatment team of youth. Attend and participate in Child and Family Team Meetings (CFTMs) as assigned.
• As an ARC interventionist, provide trauma-informed, culturally sensitive therapeutic interventions in collaboration with the treatment team.
• Remain curious, objective, and professional with respect for the client when addressing behaviors and utilizing effective responses.
• Use active roving style of supervision to implement routines and rhythms established in the milieu (being fully present, attuned, and engaged as directed by the Unit Supervisor, Unit Manager, or Lead worker on duty). Know at all times where youth under your care are and that they are properly supervised.
• Present a confident, balanced, authoritative (not authoritarian) presence in order to be a stabilizing influence on the youth and milieu. Utilize ARC trauma informed principle of Caregiver Affect Management to be aware of staff's own emotional responses to youth behaviors so as to meet the needs of the youth and underlying needs of the youth behaviors.
• Appropriately address clients' disruptive/unhealthy/inappropriate (dis-regulated) behaviors and do so with self-awareness (Being Proactive vs Reactive).
• Have meaningful conversations with youth to build youth capacity for forming healthy relationships/attachments and document in the team logbook daily. Increase opportunity for choice and empowerment.
• Demonstrate motivation for learning, developing, and utilizing ARC trauma informed principles (such as "being curious not furious", "check yourself before you wreck yourself", attuning to youth and coworkers feeling st