Job Details
Job Location
Pathways Transitions House KCMO - KANSAS CITY, MO
Position Type
Full-Time / Part-Time
Salary Range
$18.00 - $21.00 Hourly
Description
Position : Life Development Specialist (shifts available : 2nd shift 3p-11p Monday thru Friday / PRN available as well)
Salary : $18.00 - $21.00 hourly
Job Type : Full Time / Part Time / PRN
Purpose :
Oversees clients in daily activities while teaching new skills, ensuring safety, and managing behaviors. Plan activities, reinforce treatment plans and document all client related information.
Essential Responsibilities
- Responsible for direct supervision and safety of all clients.
- Responsible for proper behavior management of children through the use of behavior management techniques.
- Build healthy relationships with clients and be a role model of healthy behaviors
- Have a working knowledge of child's treatment plan and objectives and structures activities to support that plan.
- Responsible for creatively structuring activities for groups and conducting psycho-educational groups.
- May be responsible for medication administration and other medical support.
- Responsible for the reviewing / writing of all required documentation.
- Responsible for teaching, guiding, and assisting the client in daily life skills as appropriate for age.
- Provide 24 hour awake supervision.
- May assist classroom teacher in performing classroom duties.
- Ability to manage clients courteously and tactfully while on agency property.
Required Skills or Abilities
- Excellent oral / written communication skills.
- Ability to form professional relationships with internal and external clients.
- Required trainings as specified by the agency.
- Ability to serve as an appropriate role model for clients.
- Valid driver's license and vehicle insurance and insurable by agency carrier.
Minimum Requirements
Life Development Specialist
- Education Level : High school diploma
- Experience : The preferred candidate will have two years' experience working with children.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :
- Ability to perform a range of physical motions including, but not limited to :
- Lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs.
- Support and safely lower 150 pounds of weight to the floor
- Standing, walking, sitting for long periods of time
- Must be able to get up and down off the floor unassisted
- Must be able to reach above their heads, bend, kneel, and lift
- Running for brief periods of time
- Ability to use senses of sight and hearing to effectively supervise clients
- Must possess, or be willing to attain CPR, First Aid, and Safe Crisis Management (SCM) Training (with sufficient passing score) within 2 weeks of hire date.
- BENEFITS : Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes : Paid Holiday, Paid Time Away, medical / dental / vision;
- prescriptions; accident and critical illness insurance; pet insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; term life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D);
- health savings account (HSA); flexible spending account (FSA); retirement (401K); employee assistance program (EAP); YMCA membership discounts;
Tuition Reimbursement Program and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. To view a detailed Summary of Benefits please visit our website at www.
cornerstonesofcare.org and under the heading "About Us" click on "Join Our Team."
CORNERSTONES OF CARE'S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS :
- Nonviolence- helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose
- Emotional Intelligence -helping to teach emotional management skills
- Social Learning -helping to build cognitive skills
- Open Communication -helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management
- Democracy -helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
- Social Responsibility -helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships
- Growth and Change -helping to work through loss and prepare for the future