Overview
Salary/Hourly Wage: $27.00/hour
Benefits: Paid Time Off, Health/Vision/Dental Insurance, 3% Retirement Match
Position Overview
Teton Youth and Family Services is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Youth Care Staff. Based on agency needs, our staff may be asked to work flexibly across both the Van Vleck House (group home) and Red Top Meadows (residential treatment facility). We serve adolescents in each facility and focus on areas including self-esteem, communication, anger management, emotional regulation, and healthy relationships.
Our organization operates 24/7, 365 days a year, providing care and support to youth in need. Youth Care staff are responsible for the daily supervision of our residents at either our residential treatment facility or our group home and crisis shelter. They build therapeutic relationships with our clients and create a safe and predictable environment. Creating this environment requires establishing healthy boundaries, reinforcing choices and behaviors through the use of natural and logical consequences, helping residents develop internal self-control by highlighting new growth and change as well as engaging in enriching activities.
Youth Care staff may work in shifts up to 16 hours, which could include overnight shifts. This is more than a seasonal job, we desire a year long commitment.
Responsibilities
Participate in implementing student treatment plans, including but not limited to:
Be knowledgeable of each student’s treatment issues, goals, and skills.
Develop a therapeutic relationship with students by being a positive, consistent, responsible, caring adult.
Be an active listener.
Help students relate daily issues and their daily lives to treatment issues, goals, and skills.
Assist students with Stage or Phase System assignments
Exchange information through the Electronic Medical Record and staff meetings regarding perceptions and ideas about students’ behaviors and progress.
Complete daily logs on student’s behavior.
Supervise therapeutic, structured living environment including but not limited to;
Supervise daily schedule i.e. mealtimes, free time, unit/packet work, quiet hour, bedtime, and activities (supervising includes getting kids involved, involving yourself, observing, maintaining physical and emotional safety, and when appropriate #1 above).
Perform daily checks on student’s rooms for cleanliness.
Help prepare meals.
Serve as a viable role model for prosocial behavior.
Enforce program rules and provide consequences following appropriate procedures described in the staff handbook.
Follow procedures for licensed child-care agencies.
Supervise the upkeep and maintenance of the program’ physical plant.
Assist in the classroom as directed by the teaching staff.
Continue professional development.
Required to be available for on-call holding facility schedule as needed. Includes additional compensation.
Assume other duties assigned by the management team.
Qualifications:
Minimum requirements: High School Diploma - preferably Bachelors degree, patient, good listener, energetic, self-assured, Certified First Aid and CPR. Must be willing to submit background checks.
Employees must have a valid drivers license and a vehicle to get to and from work.
About Teton Youth and Family Services
Teton Youth and Family Services (TYFS) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of services addressing behavioral, emotional, and mental health issues. TYFS operates three core programs: Van Vleck House, Hirschfield Center for Children, and Red Top Meadows Residential Treatment Center, serving youth aged 10–18 in Teton, Lincoln, and Sublette Counties.
