WHO WE
ARE:
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults,
strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality
comprehensive services and advocacy. We envision a world in which children and
young adults, families, and communities are able to heal, grow, and thrive.
Job
Type: Full-time Opportunity
Salary Range: $20.14 - $25.00 per hour (based on bilingual
status and/or experience)
WHAT WE
OFFER:
In exchange for your skill and experience, Hillsides offers an excellent
benefits package, which includes:
- Sign on Bonus
of $2000! Bonus split and paid in increments at hire, 3 months, 6
months and 1st year.
- Bilingual
stipend of $2,000 for applicable positions
- This role is
eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
- Competitive
salary
- Medical
insurance
- Dental
insurance 100% employer paid for HMO employee only coverage plan
- Life and
AD&D insurance 100% employer paid up to two times the annual salary
- Flexible
Spending Account with $640 roll-over limit
- 401(k) with no
wait period and no vesting schedule
- 401(k) employer
match
- 13 paid
holidays per year and generous paid time off policy accruing up to 22 days
off annually
- Robust training
opportunities: Shared Core Practice Model & Trauma Informed Care
- Employee
Assistance Program
ESSENTIAL
FUNCTIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able
to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.
The essential functions include:
- Responsible
for the overall supervision, care and protection of clients and staff
while on duty
- Supporting client participation in the program
in accordance with their needs, interest, and abilities as well as assisting
clients in safely managing problems or conflicts in the milieu
- Triages
client crises.
- Liaises
with local law enforcement and first responders during calls for support
- Supports
the Campus Support Office with completing Missing Person reports as
needed.
- Responding
to acting out behaviors of resident clients with trauma-informed
interventions including runaways, substance use, and behavioral challenges
- Utilization
of behavioral management techniques (Pro-ACT) to ensure client and staff
safety
- Assist
with planning all Off-Campus Activities in manner that ensures adequate
client to staff rations are maintained, client behaviors concerns are
considered, and ensures that client participation id determined based on
approvals to participate in off-campus outings and client is safe enough
to participate.
- Support
the Campus Support Office in checking in client visitors, as needed.
- Stay apprised of all main campus procedures related to emergency responses to coordinate disaster preparedness procedures in the event of natural disasters, medical emergencies, campus lockdowns, evacuations, and fire.
- Assist
Unit Supervisor and designated program with necessary special incident
reporting submission.
- Assist
Unit Supervisor with training and orientation of new Child Care Counselor
staff
- Assist
Unit Supervisor with maintaining recreation and leisure time and
educational needs for each child in the assigned unit
- Assist
Supervisor with identifying staff to transport clients to off-campus
appointments.
- Assist
with identifying staff members to monitor required visitation and/or
assist with monitoring visits to ensure client safety.
- Assist
Unit Supervisor in monitoring, balancing, and managing individual client clothing and allowance accounts on a weekly basis to ensure accuracy and accountability.
- Assist with monitoring cottage staff schedules
and ensure all child care worker hours are covered daily and weekly for
respective cottage to ensure adequate client to staff ratios are maintained,
for respective cottage, while working with other supervisors and the campus
support office to allocate support when needed.
- Supervise
and protect children individually and in groups at all times
- Help children
acquire socially acceptable habits of behavior, appearance and develop
improved personal relationships
- Help each
child relate to the group and to handle individual problems
- Be
involved in the social skills training of each resident
- Use appropriate
authority and discipline as necessary to set limits for behavior and help
each child develop his own capacity for self-control
- Participate
as a unit team member in the development of individual child care plans directed
toward return of the child to his own home or other appropriate placement
and able to present client progress towards
goals and concerns in weekly team meetings
- Display
maturity, emotional security, and temperament to care for children and
adolescent residents and exhibit good judgment and ability to get along
with other staff members
- Be
able to give residents individual understanding and affection
- Be
able to organize and participate in group discussions, conversation during
meals, recreation and art and music appreciation
- Be
able to structure and assist in various daily living skills which foster
independent functioning, including but not limited to grooming, shopping,
cooking, etc. Able to participate in CFT's as
needed.
- Be
able to organize, facilitate and participate in various leisure time
activities through cultivation of personal interests and join with the
children and adolescents in normal leisure activities such as dancing,
recreation, camping, etc.
- Engage
in recreational and/or therapeutic sports activities with clients as
needed
- Be
able to organize and participate in various activities such as games,
sports and exercise
- Be
available for and be able to integrate training as provided on a regular
basis
- Able
to drive for prolonged periods, stretch, reach, push, pull, bend, carry,
lift, run, and walk
- Assist
with the collection, organization, and submission of case documentatio
- Assist with client and family tours as called
upon.
- Assist with client admission process when called
upon to determine what support clients would need.
- Assist with client admission by engaging client
upon arrival and provide information to client about program structure and
expectations.
- Assist with completion of required intake
documents and procedures as needed.
- Assist with client discharge process which may
include but is not limited to: transporting clients for discharge; ensuring
required discharge documents and procedures are completed and submitted to
appropriate staff members as needed.
- Assist with ensuring that the cottage is in
compliance with all state, federal, accreditation, and other governing body
requirements.
- Other
Duties as required.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Bilingual in
Spanish Strongly Preferred
- Minimum 1 year experience working with children
in a child care agency preferred
- Demonstrated
ability to supervise staff & provide leadership
- Valid
California driver's license, driving record and personal vehicle insurance
acceptable to Hillsides' insurance carrier
- Be able to show
proof of immunization or immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases
transmitted by the respiratory route, including Varicella, MMR, Tdap,
& Influenza. Reasonable accommodations to vaccination requirements
available to employees who, because of a sincerely held religious belief,
a medical contraindication, or a disability, do not receive some or all of
the required vaccinations.
TRAUMA INFORMED
CARE (TIC)
Hillsides practices Trauma Informed
Care (TIC) principles which recognizes the signs, symptoms, and widespread
impact of trauma; Employees are asked to comprehensively integrate knowledge of
Trauma Informed Care into policies, procedures, and practices with the goal to
prevent re-traumatization which promotes healing of families, youth,
individuals, and communities.
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