Independent Living Skills; ILS) Specialist, Part Time

Job Details

Job Location:

Campus
- Camarillo, CA 93012

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $18.00 - $25.00 Hourly

Job Shift: Swing

Job Category:
Nonprofit
- Social Services

For 30 years, Casa Pacifica has been helping at-risk children, their families, and young adults thrive.

As the largest non‑profit provider of children’s and adolescent mental health services in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, Casa Pacifica specializes in treating children and young adults who struggle with complex mental health challenges such as emotional dysregulation, self‑harm, anxiety, and depression. Our multi‑disciplinary staff of highly trained clinicians, psychologists, educators, therapists and mental health workers provide exceptional, evidence‑based careto help our youth overcome a wide array of mental health challenges.

Casa Pacifica’s Camarillo, Goleta, and Santa Maria offices work with more than 2,000 at‑risk children, families, and young adults annually in outpatient, residential, home, and community‑based settings. Our main Camarillo campus, located on 25 acres of beautiful park‑like grounds, provides a nurturing and therapeutic environment for youth to overcome challenges, to find hope, and to heal.

We are a diverse and inclusive team providing excellent services to all our surrounding communities. Our team members are empowered to share their identities, ideas, and perspectives. A culture built on diversity, equity and inclusivity is essential to creating a safe and healing environment at Casa Pacifica.

Steppings Stones is a transitional housing program providing transitional-age youth a safe, stable, homelike environment. Stepping Stones participants can access case management, support services, activities, and resources that teach and train life skills/executive functioning for sustainable independent living. Under the direction of the Stepping Stones Program Supervisor, the Independent Living Skills (ILS) Specialist is responsible for safeguarding the facility and ensuring the safety of Stepping Stones Participants, while carrying out the mission of Casa Pacifica.

The ILS Specialist provides support, encouragement and leadership to the emerging adults that will be residing in the Stepping Stones Transitional Living Houses. The ILS SPECIALIST, will empower the participants to learn, develop, and adopt healthy life skills and establish routine and accountability to grow and develop as good citizens and independent thinkers. The ILS SPECIALIST, helps to facilitate a positive living and learning environment.

• Welcomes and interacts with emerging adults ages 18 up to 25, who will be residing in the transitional living homes, both single individuals and those with children.
• Acts as a role model with regards to policies, conduct and tolerance of personal differences; engaging in relational repair as needed.
• Provide a home‑like atmosphere while also ensuring programmatic expectations. Encourage responsibility, empowerment, and model a kind and caring approach.
• Hold residents accountable for their behavior, enforce program rules and expectations, and assist residents in creating an environment of cooperation and respect.
• Mediate resident conflicts, utilizing and adjusting the Shared Living Agreement.
• Work with TYS staff to report any participant safety concerns.
• Engage the residents to establish and build rapport through a strength‑based approach.
• Will record campus nightly observations, incidents, and safety in the ILS Shift Report.
• Suggest and help residents fine‑tune appropriate living skills to aid positive peer interactions, parenting skills, self‑care skills etc.
• Utilize crisis intervention techniques or call the necessary mental health or law enforcement personal. Also fills out incident reports as needed.
• Complete all documentation as needed (i.e. incident reports, mandated abuse reports, shift reports).
• Facilitates walk through the buildings and grounds of campus, and reports and acts on any suspicious activity.
• Sounds alarm and/or notifies law enforcement and first responders by telephone.
• Provide “in the moment” life coaching as…