The Youth Counselor works as scheduled in the Group Home, providing supervision, support, and direction to children fostering their positive growth and development; maintains a hazard-free, clean, and orderly household; prepares meals to conform to menus; completes all required logs, forms and reports, participates in meetings as scheduled; accompanies groups or individual children for outside activities or appointments as scheduled.
Responsibilities:
- Provides a warm, homelike atmosphere by establishing an individual relationship with each resident focusing on that resident’s positive growth and development.
- Under the supervision of the Supervising staff, ensure an orderly schedule for the residents by supervising their daily activities: wake-up, school or other program attendance, mealtime, study time, assigned Group Home chores, and bedtime; monitor individual appointments for each child to endure punctual attendance.
- Monitors each youth’s physical well-being ensuring suitable clothing, adequate food, and all required medical treatments, including medication dispensing.
- Communicates and enforces Group Home rules with each child; applies discipline as outlined in Group Home procedures fairly and objectively.
- Accompanies and transports children to outside activities (including supervised recreation) and appointments as required.
