Youth Care Specialist - Transitional Living

Youth Care Specialist
- Transitional Living

Salary Range $17.00 - $21.00 Hourly Position Type Full Time

We are seeking a Youth Care Specialist – Transitional Living to join our team. Hourly Rate: $17.00 - $21.00

Schedules Available:

• Missouri
  • Full-time Shift: Monday – Friday: 3:00 pm – 11:00 pm
  • Full-time Shift: Friday: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm, Saturday – Sunday: 11:00am – 11:00 pm
  • Part-time Shift: Saturday – Sunday: 11:00 pm – 7:00 am
• Kansas
  • Full-time Shift: Monday – Thursday: 10:00 pm – 8:00 am

This role 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. You will work with other team members and report to the Program Manager Pathways.

What You Will Do:

• 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 the 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 teaching, guiding, and assisting the client in daily life skills as appropriate for age.
• Provide 24-hour awake supervision.
• Ability to manage clients courteously and tactfully while on agency property.
• Responsible for the above essential duties.
• May require transporting youth to events, meetings, appointments and/or activities
• May attend court hearings, family support team and school meetings.
• May interview and make a recommendation in the hiring process.
• May assign job duties, train staff, and ensure adequate coverage.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Bring:

• Our ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience working with children and the following:
• High school diploma, required.
• Bachelor's degree in social services, child development, or criminal justice, preferred.
• At least 21 years of age and pass background check, physical, and drug screening
• A valid driver's license in the state you reside in, proof of current vehicle insurance, and reliable transportation.

Cornerstones of Care is a mental and behavioral health nonprofit certified in trauma-informed care that provides evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and support services to help children and families improve their safety and health by making positive changes in their lives. Each year, our team empowers children and families in Kansas, Missouri, and beyond through three key service areas:

• Youth & Family Support – We help youth gain independence through social and living support programs while empowering families with the skills and resources they need to become resilient and successful.
• Foster Care & Adoption – We reunify and unite families while recruiting and providing support to foster parents and youth in foster care.
• Education & Community Trainings – We help students achieve academic success while giving educators the tools to create safe learning environments to improve their students' behaviors and offer innovative learning opportunities to build and improve knowledge in the community.

• Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a 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.

Our Wide Statement:

At Cornerstones of Care, we commit to fostering a community where every individual, regardless of background or identity,…