Bilingual Team Lead (OVN) 10:00PM - 6:00AM - Seton Home

Description

Summary:

The Team Lead supports the role of the Shelter Supervisor and is authorized to take reasonable action necessary to carry out responsibilities assigned as long as such actions do not deviate from established organizational policies and are consistent with program guidelines and sound professional judgment. Manage Casa de Milagros Program staff and resources in the care of youth and their children placed at Seton Home. Implement and promote appropriate trauma informed behavioral limits within a safe and caring environment.

• Minimum of 1-year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
  

Position Responsibilities:

Supervisory Duties include but not limited to:

• *Responsible for leadership and daily supervision of staff.
• *Provide staff with verbal and written feedback as it relates to their job performance—positive feedback as well as corrective action, when necessary. Communicate staff performance with Supervisor, Assistant Program Director and Program Director.
• *Review schedules and assignments with staff and residents at least 24 hours in advance of activities.
• *Ensures completion of daily behavioral logs by assigned staff.
• *Conduct daily transition meetings.
• *Serves as the first point of contact in addressing concerns that arise while on shift.
• Assist with completing the shadowing process with new hires.
• Helps foster a positive team environment amongst staff
• Communicate expectations to staff as it relates to our program and accomplishing program goals.
• Responsible for scheduling in a manner that meets licensing and ORR requirements and ensures the safety of our clients.
• Ensure staff knows, understands and complies with the Flores Settlement Agreement, Minimum Standards, contractor and funder requirements and any other placement requirements.
• Ensures staff knows, understands and implements Residential Child and Youth Care Professional premises; provides training of new staff and retraining of staff not utilizing the model correctly.
• Helps foster a positive team environment amongst staff

Program Duties include but not limited to:

• *Lead staff efforts in teaching clients with program goals that currently include socialization, parenting, coping skills, academic, independent living, problem solving, personal hygiene, and acculturation to maximize parenting and life skill development and independent living.
• Provide crisis intervention to youth while maintaining emotional self-control
• Counsel youth through personal problems using trust-based problem-solving techniques and maintain appropriate boundaries
• *Observe, document and consult with both shelter and program staff on youth behaviors, parenting, and client progress.
• Attend multidisciplinary staffing meetings; alternate facilitation of those meetings as assigned.

Administrative Duties include but not limited to:

• Maintain the daily calendar up to date and ensure completion of designated appointments.
• Ensure completion of outcome measures requiring entry into Seton Home’s data management system (KaleidaCare).
• Ensure completion of accurate and prompt incident reports as outlined in the Minimum Standards.
• Ensure daily room checks are completed; submit any maintenance tickets as needed.
• Assist Resource Coordinator with completion of inventory to ensure regular supplies for daily and long-term resident/cottage needs.
• Complete finance reports of Shelter expenses
• Supervises the use of shelter expenses for daily use and maintains and/or ensures accurate completion of financial records.
• Provide Executive Services Manager with information for maintenance reports.
• Ability to complete all documentation as required by licensing, contractors, and various funders.

Shift Specific Expectation & Responsibilities

The Casa de Milagros Team Lead supervises and ensures completion of the following tasks, and other duties, by YCW’s based on assigned shift.

Overnight Routine

• *Conduct hourly bed checks throughout the night to ensure safety of residents.
• *Providing care for infants when residents ask for assistance.
• *Complete daily medication audit and email to appropriate personnel.
• *Computer related tasks: Document daily logs and incident reports using the internal database, ensure important information is included.
• *Clean and make ready vacant rooms.
• *Prepare breakfast for residents on a daily basis.
• Completing shelter intake process with new arrivals as needed.
• Assisting with transporting residents to the hospital as needed.
• Ensuring that residents who are scheduled to discharge from the program are ready by the designated time.
• Check refrigerators/pantry for expired food items.
• *Prepare logs, needs requests, inventory, and resident binders.
• Complete end of month duties, which include preparing shelter paperwork and medical binders.
• Process and dispense any medications.
• Update medication binders as new intakes arrive.
• Assisting with the Point of Contact role as needed.
• File needs requests and log in appropriate folder on s/drive; file hardcopy in residents’ binder.
• End of shift duties: clean staff restroom, take out all trash, and do last walk through of cottage to ensure cleanliness

Additional Duties

• Must complete all required professional development assigned in a timely manner
• Must be sensitive to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Adhering to safety training and protocols on a daily basis and taking precautionary measure to ensure the safety and well-being of self, others.
• Responsible for protecting the confidentiality of any information or material obtained in the service with the organization to include but not limited to client names and information, services rendered to clients, donors names and gifts, internal and external investigations or results of any investigations, and financial information.
• Adherence to the Code of Conduct and the Faith and Moral Policy is mandatory.
• Every employee is required to take a solution-oriented approach in their interactions and undertakings, as well as being a team member that promotes collaboration and commitment to the Mission and Vision of the organization.
• As a Seton Home employee, attendance and successful completion of a 10-day New Employee Orientation is mandated for the position. The inability to meet this requirement will conclude employment with the Agency.
• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director, Assistant Program Director or Vice President of Programs.

Competencies:

Communication

Resilience

Solution Oriented

Leadership

Performance Management

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education
  • Minimum High School Diploma or Equivalent.
  • Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience
  • Minimum of 1-year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
  • 2-years employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting preferred.
• License and Credentials
  • Reliable transportation.
  • Valid driver license.
  • Valid vehicle insurance.
• Must provide immunization/shot records.
• Submit to a state and federal background check, Child abuse and neglect registry check, and Tuberculosis screening.
• Be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities.

Able to show proof of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases transmitted by the respiratory route if working directly with unaccompanied children.

• Varicella: two doses of varicella vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR born in the United States before 1980 with a reported history of chickenpox (verified by an adult present at the time of illness) OR titers indicating varicella immunity OR documentation from healthcare provider verifying previous infection.
• MMR: two doses of MMR vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR titers indicating immunity to all three diseases
• DTaP or DTap: Complete primary vaccination series. If primary vaccination series completed in childhood, one DTaP dose in adulthood.
• Influenza: one dose annually during flu season.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills:

• Minimum of 1-year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
• 2-years employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting preferred.
• Working knowledge of TDFPS Minimum Standards, and Office of Refugee Resettlement- Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services National Care Standards.
• Some knowledge of computer software, familiarity with or ability to utilize KaleidaCare and MS Office (i.e. MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and OneDrive).
• Ability to set and teach trauma informed care practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of human behavior and development preferred.
• Successful completion and implementation of SAMA.
• Possess sensitivity to the service population's cultural and socio-economic characteristics.
• Ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served in order to help them gain skills and confidence.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other staff members, service providers and professionals.
• Capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately in order to meet service goals.
• Demonstrate a commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.
• Demonstrate a conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Ability to function independently and in a team setting.
• *Bilingual: Fluent in English/Spanish with regards to reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension of the spoken language
• Must pass a criminal background check.

Travel Requirements:

Travel requirements for the position includes 10% local and 10% overnight.

$20.13 Differential

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, etc.) ** This is a Grant funded position and salary is dependent on funding availability. Position can be eliminated at any time because of lack of funding to support this position.**

Seton Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view this and other employment opportunities please visit our website at www.setonhomesa.org. You must apply through our website and complete the application and upload your resume. No phone calls please. If you are chosen for an interview, you will be contacted.

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