What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Care Worker position at Embrace Florida Kids?
Are you mission minded and passionate about helping youth in your community and making a lasting impact on someone’s life? We are currently seeking a dedicated Youth Care Worker who will serve as a positive role model to support, lead, and encourage young people. You will have the chance to form lasting relationships, encourage positive behavior, and design activities to promote overall welfare of youth, all while increasing your knowledge of social work and the child welfare system. We believe that personal relationships hold the key to changing behavior, and we place our trust in our passionate team of Youth Care Workers.
Our employees are dedicated individuals that are committed to our mission by inspiring positive change in the lives of youth. Joining our team is more than just a job, it's an opportunity to create a meaningful career with an organization driven by its powerful mission to make a difference.
For more than 130 years we have been answering the call to serve, bringing life to the ongoing mission to care for children and families in crisis through homes, healing, and hope.
What you'll do:
- Provide appropriate supervision of residents to ensure their safety and well-being.
- Provide instruction for basic living skills to residents.
- Provide praise and positive feedback to residents to help build the self-confidence and esteem of residents.
- Assist with residents’ day-to-day needs and activities including provision of nutritious meals, supervising and assisting with household chores, ensuring school attendance, assisting with homework, etc.
- Demonstrate an ability to plan, organize and direct the activities of residents including scheduling and transporting residents to appointments.
- Work cooperatively with the Group Home Supervisor when work priorities are adjusted in emergency situations.
- Follow relevant safety practices and procedures.
- Ensure documentation is completed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Assist other staff with insuring that food and supplies are purchased and maintained in the facility.
- Compile required information and data to prepare required reports and/or documents. Ensure reports and/or documents are neatly and accurately prepared.
- Comply with UMCH policy and procedure, as well as Florida Department of Children and Families and FamiliesFirst Network regulations.
- Answer the telephone in a polite and professional manner. Ensures that telephone messages are accurate and relayed to recipient in a timely manner. Provide assistance with routine inquiries.
- Maintain client data and communications in designated computer data bases.
- Maintain client confidentiality to include compliance with HIPPA regulations.
- Demonstrate a cooperative and helpful attitude while interacting with residents, co-workers, supervisory staff, volunteers and other UMCH stakeholders.
- Work in accordance with the appropriate Job Guide for this position.
- Completes additional tasks as otherwise specified.
To be considered, you should:
- Be empathetic, patient, and treat others with respect.
- Have a desire to work in child welfare.
- Be able to spend the night in the residential facility for the entire duration of your shift.
- Be attentive to detail and have the ability to solve problems quickly and responsibly.
- Have excellent communication skills in both writing and speaking.
- Be at least 21 years of age.
- Have a high school diploma or have an equivalent certification (GED). Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and a driving record that will allow coverage on the Agency’s insurance policy.
- Must receive a satisfactory background check that includes a check of employment and personal references, criminal history, driving background, Florida Abuse Registry Check, Affidavit of Good Moral Character, Sex Offender Check and pass a pre-employment physical examination including a TB skin test and drug screen.
- Previous experience in related field preferred.
The Advantages:
- A schedule that allows for more consecutive days off.
- 100% Company Paid Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability.
- Eligibility for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Supplemental Insurance the following month after hire.
- Choice of supplemental benefits, including additional life insurance, cancer, hospitalization, and accident insurance.
- Eligibility for 403b Years of Service Employer Contribution 3% of your salary and an additional match of up to 3% of Employee Contribution after 1 year of employment.
- Various employee discounts for services.
- Paid Time Off that can be used as soon as it accrues.
Apply today and help us make a difference!
About the Job
- Full Time Position. This position involves working a full day shift and then retiring to your onsite bedroom after the residents go to bed. Overnight is required.
Salary : $39,000 - $42,000