Youth director Jobs in Greensboro, NC

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SCOPE :

The Youth Care Worker is responsible for all direct care to adolescents at a temporary youth’s residential facility. They always provide a continuous line of sight supervision to their assigned children. They ensure safety and quality care of all children and contractual requirements and client’s expectations are met. They assist children with their valuables, clothing, laundry, and transportation to appointments. They report to the Lead Youth Care Worker or department lead.

All services shall be provided in accordance with established standards, principles, and ethics of the profession, applicable professional specialty organizations, and the high-quality standard for which Acuity is recognized. ​

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Provides direct supervision of children in care and maintains line-of-sight.
• Provides oversight of children during recreation, mealtime, relaxing time, and play.
• Interacts with children in an appropriate manner, including playing games or during recreational time.
• Ensures accurate timesheet management (clock in and out).
• Ensures that all contract agency policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Ensures quality care for all children and timely response to their needs.
• Follows all mandatory child welfare reporting requirements.
• Ensures that all children’s needs are provided for such as protection of valuables, clothing distribution, laundry services, etc.
• Provides reports to manager regarding children’s needs, activities, and documentation of time / location.
• Completes all required documentation pertaining to this position in a timely manner, which may include daily reports, shift briefings, and management updates.
• Adheres to confidentiality, HIPAA, and non-disclosure agreement, related to children and shelter operations, both on and off work (i.e. media and social media postings).
• Must be able to perform CPR / first aid, if necessary.
• Assists during transition and movement of children from one activity to the next and one physical location to another, if necessary.
• Engage and interact with youth in the education department, to include assisting teachers and facilitating as needed.
• May be assigned by supervisors to other departments to fulfill operational requirements in the support of children in care.
• Able to communicate verbally and listen for constant surveillance of children and staff activities.
• Complies with all applicable Acuity and contract standards and guidelines.
• Be able to multi-task, be detail-oriented and organized while having good verbal and written communication skills.
• Performs Emergency Behavioral Intervention (EBI) and effectively monitor and execute the shelter’s Behavior Management Plan for youth in care (as applicable per, operating procedures, contract and / or cooperative agreements).
• Must be able to supervise children indoors and outdoors throughout the entire duration of their shift.
• Meet the requirements of the contract for all immunizations (Emergency Task Order or Cooperative Agreement).
• Must be able to obtain Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certifications.
• Must be adaptable to a changing work environment and have the capacity to adapt to diverse situations.
• Able to receive and understand detailed information through oral communication.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned to ensure continuous operations.

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Acuity International is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

For OFCCP compliance, the taxable entity associated with this job posting is :

Acuity-CHS, LLC