Salary Range $18.19 - $22.05 Hourly
Position Type Full Time
Job Shift Any
Education Level High School
Travel Percentage None
Category Nonprofit - Social Services
Description
The Awake Overnight Youth Development Professional (AO-YDP) plays an essential role in caring for children placed in care at Elmcrest. Having the most significant contact with residents, the AO-YDP utilizes a child-centered approach and makes every effort to work in the children's best interest while facilitating the individual and environmental conditions necessary to create change. The AO-YDP is charged with providing a safe, secure, and nurturing environment while continuously using natural, everyday opportunities to teach, guide, and support residents with their treatment, goals, and challenges. The AO-YDP is scheduled in a manner that best accommodates the staff ratio and program coverage requirements. A regular, set schedule can be expected. There may be times, however, when any combination of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts and/or overtime may be necessary. The AO-YDP's Primary responsibility is to ensure the continuous safety, security and health of residents during bedtime hours. These checks are a core responsibility for the AO-YDP ensuring residents are accounted for and that the facility remains secure.
Responsibilities:
Remain awake and alert: the AO-YDP must remain fully awake and alert throughout the entire shift.
Residential Cottages; Provide a minimum of 15-minute bed checks for each resident. Bed check times must be staggered to avoid residents' ability to predict a staff's given bed check time (e.g. 15-minute check followed by a 9-minute check, 13-minute check, 4-minute check, etc.)
Checks must consist of physical verification; staff must see a visible body part, or chest rising (breathing) if the resident is fully covered by bedding materials.
Provide individualized bed check times and staff positioning based on documented/communicated resident at-risk precautions/protocols.
Documentation of residents' bed checks must occur in real-time. Bed check documentation must occur after the bed check is completed and bed checks can never, under any circumstance, be documented ahead of time, before any bed check is to occur.
Ensure the facility is secure; all exterior doors, windows, and office doors as applicable are locked and secured.
Create and support an environment by which each resident 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 residents following their treatment plans and Individualized Crisis Support Plan.
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 residents by:
Demonstrating appropriate social boundaries.
Having a non-threatening and supportive demeanor.
Actively involving residents in all facets of programming.
Transporting and accompanying residents to school, off-ground activities, 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.
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, OCFS Fire/Safety, etc).
Follow all agency and department policies & procedures.
Other Duties as Assigned: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications
Elmcrest's Core Values & Competencies :
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Honesty : Act with integrity and behave in a manner consistent with our policies, Code of Conduct and any regulatory and ethical guidelines. Utilize practices and techniques professionals train to interact with children, families and co-workers appropriately.
Willingness to Learn: Open to new experiences and learning new skills and information that can improve professional development, progressive work environments and support the mission of Elmcrest.
Dedication to Purpose : Display the necessary passion and empathetic abilities to serve the Elmcrest mission. Committed to improving the lives of children and families.
Social Concern : Value human dignity and have respect for others. Actively seek out diverse approaches and points of view.
Self-Examination : Systemically observe, analyze and utilize self-reflection to improve actions or results. Listen to constructive feedback and concerns and maintain positive relationships in the workplace.
Competencies :
Able to relate to a dynamic environment. Flexible and able to solve problems as unanticipated challenges present themselves.
Self-aware, enjoys, and is comfortable interacting with children.
Technically and physically able to provide crisis intervention, including physical restraints. The Agency provides this required training.
Must understand and demonstrate the principles of care (Boys Town and TCI) to which Elmcrest ascribes and trains.
Required Education and Experience :
High School Diploma or GED, College, and experience preferred.
Essential Job Qualifications:
Ability to lift 50 pounds without assistance.
Able to provide crisis intervention, including physical restraints. Restraints may include resistive force, bending, squatting, kneeling, lying down, and holding youth to maintain safety.
Ability to sit, squat, crouch, and stand for elongated periods
Ability to lift arms overhead in a reaching motion
Ability to walk up and down stairs several times per day.
Ability to provide crisis intervention including physical restraints. Restraints may include resistive force, bending, squatting, kneeling, lying down, and holding youth in order to maintain safety.
Varying levels of travel as determined by departmental needs may be required with this position.
Driver's license with a driving record acceptable to our insurance carrier.
Equal Opportunity Statement : Elmcrest Children's Center prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race, color, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Accommodations : Elmcrest Children's Center will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to Elmcrest Children's Center. Contact Human Resources with any questions or requests for accommodation.
At Will Employment : Your employment with Elmcrest Children's Center is at will. This means your employment is for an indefinite period of time and it is subject to termination by you or Elmcrest Children's Center, with or without cause, with or without notice, and at any time. Nothing in this job description or in any other policy of Elmcrest Children's Center shall be interpreted to be in conflict with or to eliminate or modify in any way, the at-will employment status of Elmcrest Children's Center employees.
