Child Care Staff are responsible for supporting, supervising, and assisting house youth in care. Child Care staff should promote a sense of connection to family, community, and culture. They create opportunities within the program for youth to experience the core value of independence through teaching life skills, helping with homework, facilitating group meetings. Child Care staff will work closely with case managers, and ISP team members to ensure youth’s permanency plan is progressing. The successful candidate will have experience with working with at risk youth. Once you commit to a schedule you are expected to show up and be on time.
Responsibilities
- Assist all staff in providing a safe nurturing and learning environment for children.
- Child Care services for each assigned child.
- Supervise children in the home during recreational activities and outings.
- Provides one on one supervision to a child when safety concerns are noted for both community and the RTC.
- Providing the level of supervision necessary to ensure each child’s safety and well-being, including auditory and visual awareness.
- Be able to intervene for each child’s safety.
- Assist children with homework and independent living activities, such as learning to cook.
- When deciding how to supervise a child take into consideration;
- The child’s age
- Child’s individual differences and abilities
- Indoor and Outdoor layout of operation
- Surrounding circumstances, hazards, and risks
- Childs mental, physical, social, and emotional needs
- Be aware of the child’s needs/interest and any special needs
- Provide a safe environment
- Cultivate developmentally appropriate independence in children through planned but flexible program activities.
- Ensure daily progress notes of treatment services youth
- Supervises no more than 5 to 1 ratio and depending on youth behaviors.
- Distribute medicine to clients as needed, documenting in the medicine log.
- Assist in preserving children’s culture by implementing their children’s traditions or cultural activities.
- Provide receipts for all expenditures as needed.
- Assist with transportation, errands, and necessary appointments for children.
- Provide daily documentation noting the events during shift.
- Maintain personal staff development requirements for a minimum of 30 hours annually to include First Aid/CPR and Behavior Management as set forth by Licensing.
- Attend meetings and individual supervision to discuss clients, house-related and program-related issues.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma required
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate with co-workers, medical personnel, and other persons necessary to care for the child’s needs.
- Must be 21 years of age
- One-year experience working with at risk youth.
- Computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel with the ability to learn new programs.
- Ability to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflicts, and listen.
- Ability to deal calmly in crisis situations.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to be compassionate and firm and always maintain confidentiality.
- Knowledge of community resources.
- Ability to be flexible.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to achieve goals.
- Success at managing a wide array of tasks and projects and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
- Excellent organization and planning skills.
- Commitment to the Mission of Dream Residential Treatment Center
Other Requirements
- Must have reliable transportation, valid Texas driver’s license, and valid vehicle insurance.
- Position requires driving in personal vehicle and/or agency vehicle to include freeways and highways to satellite offices, offsite meetings, and events as needed.
- Must be able to work on a flexible schedule as needed to meet work, program, and project deadlines.
- Pass Background Check, TB Test, and Submit to Random Drug Testing
Equipment Used
- Desktop computer, laptop computer, telephone, calculator, fax machine, and/or copier.
Physical Requirements
The employee is occasionally required to walk. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Must look out for the safety and wellbeing of the youth in care by reporting any issues of abuse or neglect suspected at any time to your immediate supervisor, and to the DFPS Hotline at 1-800-252-5400.
This job description in no way implies that the duties listed here are the only ones the employee will be required to perform. The employee may be expected to perform other tasks, projects, and training as requested by his or her supervisor.'
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Work Remotely
Job Type: Part-time
Salary: $13.00 - $16.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- On call
- Weekends as needed
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Experience:
- Childcare: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
- CPR Certification (Preferred)
Shift availability:
- Overnight Shift (Required)
- Day Shift (Preferred)
- Night Shift (Preferred)
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: In person
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $15.00 - $16.00 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
