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Youth Care Professional III (YCP III) – Lead

The Youth Care Professional III (YCP III) – Lead is responsible for providing supervision and care to youth in a trauma-informed residential treatment environment during overnight hours. Under the direction of the Unit Supervisor, the YCP III directly engages with youth, mentors direct care staff, and ensures compliance with Everstand, ORR, and state regulations.

The YCP III is responsible for maintaining a safe and supportive atmosphere for residents, promoting a healing-centered approach, and overseeing overnight operations. This YCP III leads through modeling professionalism, empathy, and sound judgment while operating within professional boundaries, promoting accountability and structure across the assigned unit or campus during non-traditional hours.

Imagine a role where every day brings the opportunity to inspire, guide, and uplift. At Everstand, we believe in the power of presence, the importance of trauma-informed care, and the capacity for every young person to heal and thrive.

Your efforts will help us fulfill our mission of enriching communities, one family at a time.

Find joy and purpose in your career. Join an inspired team of professionals who are transforming the lives of youth and enriching communities, one family at a time. Everstand is not a federal or state agency. It is an independent, not-for-profit organization that serves over 1,000 children annually across 12 locations. You would join about 500 teammates across DC, MD, PA, and WV who empower youth and their families to flourish within their community.

• Lead residential operations and act as an on-site point of contact for safety, staff direction, and youth needs.
• Ensure consistent staff-to-youth ratios, 24/7 line-of-sight and sound supervision, enforce unit routines, and respond to incidents using trauma-informed approaches.
• Mentor direct care team members, modeling healthy engagement, de-escalation, and crisis response.
• Support and reinforce methods/techniques of clinical staff and participate in the treatment of residents in interaction, limit setting, therapeutic activities, and implementation of safety and treatment plans. Assist youth with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), including hygiene, grooming, and meals. Meal preparation is required according to the menu unless otherwise authorized by program leadership.
• Welcome and process new intakes, entering documentation into UC Portal, and ensuring all youth's personal belongings are labeled and secured. As needed, support completion of intake inventories.
• Facilitate discharges, ensuring all documentation is completed accurately and timely, including but not limited to, youth discharge inventories and Verification of Release forms.
• Provide mandatory on-call coverage as required. Must be flexible and available to work various shifts during the week/weekend. This may include providing coverage in other program areas.
• On a rotating basis, provides effective campus supervision by fulfilling campus supervisory responsibilities at least once per week; this can include overnight and/or weekend shifts.

• Utilize program-approved and youth-guided techniques to build trusting, youth-guided relationships in alignment with Everstand's Theory of Change - the vehicle for recovery and building durable skills.
• Participate in and help facilitate individual and group programming that models and teaches (e.g., social skills, effective communication, conflict resolution, peer pressure resistance, and creative expression).
• Support academic participation, extracurricular exploration, and the development of life skills.
• Maintain professional boundaries between self and residents to ensure the appropriateness of a therapeutic relationship.

• Accurately complete required shift documentation, including logs, incident reports, medication records (MAR), and communication summaries.
• Ensure timely, confidential, and professional communication with team members and supervisors.
• Obtain and maintain user-level access to Everstand's electronic health record system.

• Administer and document medication following program guidelines (with certification).
• Safely transport youth to medical, educational, and legal appointments using agency vehicles.
• Respond to behavioral escalations using trained therapeutic crisis intervention (TCI) methods, when necessary.
• Participate in hospital coverage and intake/discharge…