Youth Development Supervisor - Cary - PAT III

Position: Youth Development Supervisor - Cary Home - PAT III
Job Type

Full-time

Description

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in this document are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Tippecanoe County provides reasonable accommodation to qualified employees and applicants with known disabilities who require accommodation to complete the application process or perform essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would cause an undue hardship.

Incumbent serves as Youth Development Supervisor for Tippecanoe County Youth Services Residential Services, responsible for supporting, supervising and overseeing direct care staff while ensuring quality care and treatment of youth.

DUTIES:

Maintains responsibility for growth and development of twenty plus Youth Development Specialists and Youth Development Workers in day-to-day direct supervision, such as conducting performance evaluations and maintaining progressive discipline, and positive engagement of youth including, but not limited to, initial training, monitoring training hours, ensuring ongoing training and feedback, performing observational codings and directing team building activities.

Ensures accurate and timely flow of communication with Leadership Team, assigned staff, and Executive Director.

Coordinates and directs active participation with youth in programming and ensures strength-based intervention and positive youth development approaches are utilized and developed.

Ensure Independent Living (IL) Skills development for youth occurs in addition to other specialized skill development needs as identified.:

• IL skills for residential youth include oversight of weekly IL groups to ensure that topics are beneficial, relevant, that activities are experiential in nature, and that groups are taking place in the community when appropriate. Additionally, providing oversight that all IL expectations are met within the stated timelines for youth 16 and older and communicated to all members of the Treatment Team.
  
  This includes but is not limited to completion of the Casey Life Skills assessment, an IL Learning Plan and weekly individual and group IL notes. Tasks also include ensuring that the family completes the Casey Life Skills assessment regarding the youth and participates in the development of the IL Learning Plan. Also maintains a monthly IL spreadsheet and enters data into the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) per state requirements.

Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-based programs and best practices for youth and families and disseminates information into practice by staff. Participates in evidence-based practices train the trainer opportunities to become a facilitator of such practices and directly delivers trainings to direct care staff.

Ensure compliance with practices of DBT, Five Domains of Wellbeing, Motivational Interviewing, Interactive Journaling, Youth Competency Assessment and other evidence-based programming.

Develops residential schedule for routine day to day programming and special occasions and ensures compliance with program scheduling.

Ensures compliance with all accreditation, contract, licensing and policy standards and ensures that all direct care staff are knowledgeable of expectations and requirements of such. These include, but are not limited to, level and phase system requirements, health requirements, and safety drills/responses.

Ensures youth in care have basic needs met such as clothing, haircuts, hygiene, school supplies, work needs, etc.

Maintains responsibility for Youth Development Specialists' and Workers' schedule by creating it, ensuring needed coverage, approving time off as requested and modifying the schedule as needed.

Monitors shift schedule and provides flexibility in covering shifts as needed, ensuring adequate coverage is provided, including weekends, evenings and overnights. Serves on-call during shifts and on rotating basis for weekends.

Complies with, develops, implements and ensures compliance by all staff of behavioral modification programs for youth. Provides crisis intervention and directs direct care staff in providing appropriate and logical consequences and interventions.

Works cooperatively with Residential and Community-Based Services Director, Operations Director and Executive Director, implementing policies and procedures ensuring ethical compliance with all state, local and statutory requirements. Participates in development and revision of policy and procedures and unit programming.

Coordinates all residents' transportation to various locations such as school, jobs, counseling and other required activities through completion of daily transportation log and provides and/or provides direct transportation as needed.

Demonstrates professionalism in interactions with staff, youth, peers, guests, families, volunteers, donors, placing agencies and vendors. Serves as intake personnel for new residents and supervises visitation of…