HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) Nuevo Camino program is dedicated to providing 38 unaccompanied minors, ages 5-12, with a supportive, nurturing environment through transitional foster homes, daily education Monday - Friday, and supportive wrap-around services in the Sunset Park section of New York City. Our program is rooted in ensuring that service delivery is trauma informed, culturally appropriate, and tailored to the needs of each child while maintaining all program requirements of ORR.
Nuevo Camino is looking for a Youth Counselor providing supervision, support, and direction to children in the Unaccompanied Minor program while promoting growth and development; completes all required logs, forms, and reports, participates in meetings as scheduled; accompanies groups or individual children for outside activities, transfers, or appointments as scheduled.
Key Essential Functions:
- Monitor and supervise youth in program to provide a safe, clean and secure environment
- Maintain a safe, respectful, hospitable, and professional atmosphere
- Facilitate groups or individual activities; accompanies and transports youth to outside activities (including supervised recreation) and appointments as required.
- Assist with lunch and snacks for youth
- Help maintain consistency in delivery of services and with regards to programmatic policies
- Document daily services, maintain client charts, progress notes, and group notes
- Communicate with treatment team, and program supervisors
- Attend mandatory staff meetings and regular supervision
