Respite Youth Support 1&2

Description

The Respite Youth Support (RYS) plays an essential role with children, ages 5-18, receiving crisis respite at Elmcrest.  Having the greatest amount of contact with youth, the RYS utilizes a child-centered approach and makes every effort to work in the best interest of children while facilitating the individual and environmental conditions that are necessary to stabilize mental health symptoms.  The RYS is charged with providing a safe and nurturing environment while continuously using natural, every day opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth in managing their unique situations so that they can return home and avoid hospitalization.  The RYS is scheduled in a manner that best accommodates the staff ratio and coverage requirement of programs. 

Responsibilities:

• Create and support an environment by which each youth can be successful in making his/her own unique behavioral, emotional, intellectual, and developmental gains by:
  • Teaching and fostering a resident’s skill development relative to his/her individual needs.
  • Interacting and intervening with youth in accordance with their treatment plans working toward a return home.
• Maintain a physically and emotionally safe & supportive environment by:
  • Developing and providing a safe and secure physical environment for each resident.
  • Providing continuous supervision of residents.
  • Using Therapeutic Crisis Intervention de-escalation techniques (proximity, time and space, caring gestures, etc.).
• Develop and maintain appropriate and positive relationships with youth by:
  • Demonstrating appropriate social boundaries.
  • Having supportive demeanor and an unconditional positive regard for the youth.
  • Actively involving youth in all facets of programming.
  • Transporting and accompanying residents to school, work, appointments in the community, and home visits.
• Perform other essential functions of the job including:
  • Complete all assigned paperwork (case documentation, reports, shift logs, etc.) accurately and on time.
  • Attend staff meetings.
  • Provide regular, documented night checks when working the awake overnight shift.
  • Report incidents of child maltreatment, neglect, and/or abuse.
  • Assist in maintaining a program that is clean, organized, hazard-free, and complies with regulatory standards (e.g. Department of Health, OMH, Fire/Safety, etc.).
  • Follow all agency and department policies & procedures.
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisors.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED with 5 years of human services experiences, an associate degree in human services with 3 years of work experience. (RYS1 position)
• Bachelor’s degree in a human services field (RYS2 position)
• NYS Driver’s license with a driving record acceptable to our insurance carrier.
• Enjoys, and is comfortable with, interacting with children.
• Able to relate to a dynamic environment. Flexible and able to problem-solve as unanticipated challenges present themselves.
• Ability to self-regulate emotionally while supporting youth who are in crisis
• Must understand and demonstrate the principles of care to which Elmcrest ascribes and trains.

Salary : $20 - $22