What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Counselor: Mills House- Part-Time, 2nd Shift! position at Community Health Resources?
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JOB TITLE : Residential Counselor
EMPLOYMENT TYPE : Part-time, 32 hours / week
SCHEDULED HOURS : Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; 4pm-12am
PROGRAM / LOCATION : Mills House, Windsor, CT
PC# : 1404
ABOUT THE PROGRAM : Mills House
Mills House is a community-based group home which provides 24 hour staffing and a built in therapeutic component for 5 boys aged 14-21 who have experienced serious emotional and behavioral problems, and who have lived in more restrictive programs or institutions. The home allows the boys to live in a more familial, natural setting within the community. The program emphasizes maximizing each boy's ability to develop skills for living successfully outside of an institutional setting through the participation in normative community activities.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Demonstrates an understanding of child development relevant to the age group of the home worked in, demonstrates an understanding of the actual developmental levels of youth in the home, and intervenes to promote development and adjusts expectations by taking in to account developmental understanding.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of family / kinship connections to youth in our homes and supports those connections by welcoming parents, relatives, and caregivers on visits and facilitating planned contacts with families in the program, the community, and the family / relative home.
- Demonstrates an ability to form and maintain positive, nurturing relationships with youth by building trust and supporting competencies through interest and active engagement.
- Demonstrates the ability to teach and support the learning of a broad range of skills including those related to : emotional regulation, age appropriate activities and competencies, and living in a home-like setting. Plan and actively participate in activities to support and increase skills and competencies.
- Demonstrates an empathic understanding of complex trauma and its effects including abuse, loss, and neglect that youth bring to placement. Incorporating that understanding in interactions with youth and responses to pain based behavior.
- Demonstrates an awareness of the physical and emotional environment by contributing to the home being a place that is emotionally and physically safe, nurturing, appropriately engaging and stimulating, which fosters growth and resilience.
- Support routines of youth through assisting and supervising wake-up, bedtime, personal care routines, completion of chores and laundry, meals, meal preparation, recreational activities, homework supervision and assistance.
- Transport youth when necessary.
QUALIFICATIONS :
Education : Bachelor's degree preferred, Associates degree or 2 years of college with minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
Experience : Substantial youth / adolescent experience required.
Licensure / Certification / Registration : DCF Medication Administration Certification, First Aid, CPR, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Certification and CARE Training Certification are required to be successfully completed before the end of the new employee probation period and are required to be maintained throughout employment. Agency scheduled and required trainings, E-Learning trainings as assigned, and any other program specific training as scheduled.
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COMPENSATION
Starting at $17.00 / hr min., and up commensurate upon experience.
CHR is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that respects differences and honors the experience of our diverse staff. We encourage women, members of ethnic minorities, LGBTQ individuals, people with (dis)abilities, and veterans to apply.
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