The Youth Counselor works as scheduled in the Children's Community Residences (CCR) 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 chores and bedtime; monitors 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 the dispensing of medication.
- Communicates and enforces CCR rules with each child; applies discipline as outlined in CCR procedures in a fair and objective manner.
- Accompanies and transports children to outside activities (including supervised recreation) and appointments as required.
- Maintains a hazard free, clean and orderly household by promptly reporting maintenance problems to the supervisory staff and by completion of assigned household chores in a timely and efficient manner.
- Prepares meals and coordinates snacks according to dietary requirements.
- Holds petty cash and other valuables of the home as assigned and dispenses according to CCR procedures. Completes all required paper work such as incident, AWOL, medical, medication, and log book reporting for the CCR.
- Participates in meetings as required and ensures that treatment and goals collaboration are carried out on a daily basis.
