What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Counselor- Afternoons 3:00pm-11:30pm position at VISTA MARIA?
TASKS OF THE POSITION
• Plans and organizes work to meet all job requirements, according to Vista Maria and COA standards,
licensing, and funding requirements.
• Provides weekly individual counseling to assigned youth.
• Completes weekly counseling notes for assigned you in our computerized systems.
• Leads daily groups to improve functions of the body and brain.
• Assists youth with activities of daily living; attends to adaptive behaviors and assists through collaboration
and crisis intervention, as needed.
• Ensures youth participate daily in an hour of recreational therapy.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Transports youth to and from appointments, home visits, and outings as needed.
• Acts as an advocate in treatment team meetings, and court hearings as needed.
• Attends and participates in in-service training, and all staff meetings as scheduled.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, programming, and safety and environmental and infection
control standards.
• Collaboration with youth, families, and external agencies.
• Acts as a liaison between the Therapist and youth when there are barriers in trust and connections with
Therapists.
• Plans activities, birthday parties as needed.
• Completes assigned accountabilities weekly.
• Contributes to the team daily and lives the agency mission, vision, and core values.
• Completes all other related tasks as required or assigned by the supervisor and or clinical unit manager.
• Demonstrates diversity, equity, and inclusion responsiveness, personal integrity, and professional
demeanor in accordance with Vista Maria ethics and the ethics of the program.
• Adheres to the mandatory stay-over schedule.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES
• Knowledge of adverse childhood experiences and how it affects the body and the brain.
• Demonstration of emotional regulation skills.
• Demonstrates safe and appropriate boundaries to vulnerable youth.
• Knowledge of sensory interventions.
• Proficiency in basic computer skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interact positively in a culturally diverse environment.
• Promotes and supports the agency’s cultural and core values of a trauma informed, family engaged, youth
driven, integrate health environment.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
None
