Awake Overnight Youth Development Professional - AOBH, Tully NY

• Job Location:
  
  Skeele AOBH
  - Tully, NY 13159
• Position Type:
  Full Time
• Education Level: High School
• Salary Range: $22.05 - $24.05 Hourly
• Travel Percentage:
  None
• Job Shift: Any
• Job Category:
  Nonprofit
  - Social Services

The Awake Overnight Youth Development Professional (AO-YDP) plays an essential role in caring for children placed in care ing the most significant contact with residents, the AO-YDP utilizes a child-centered approach and makes every effort to work in the children's best interest while facilitating the individual and environmental conditions necessary to create change. The AO-YDP is charged with providing a safe, secure, and nurturing environment while continuously using natural, everyday opportunities to teach, guide, and support residents with their treatment, goals, and challenges.

The AO-YDP is scheduled in a manner that best accommodates the staff ratio and program coverage requirements. A regular, set schedule can be expected. There may be times, however, when any combination of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts and/or overtime may be necessary. The AO-YDP’s Primary responsibility is to ensure the continuous safety, security and health of residents during bedtime hours.

These checks are a core responsibility for the AO-YDP ensuring residents are accounted for and that the facility remains secure.

• Remain awake and alert: the AO-YDP must remain fully awake and alert throughout the entire shift.
• Residential Cottages;
  Provide a minimum of 15-minute bed checks for each resident. Bed check times must be staggered to avoid residents’ ability to predict a staff’s given bed check time (e.g. 15-minute check followed by a 9-minute check, 13-minute check, 4-minute check, etc.)
• AOBH Programs:
  Bed check times according to individual youth supervision plans.
• Checks must consist of physical verification; staff must see a visible body part, or chest rising (breathing) if the resident is fully covered by bedding materials.
• Provide individualized bed check times and staff positioning based on documented/communicated resident at-risk precautions/protocols.
• Documentation of residents’ bed checks must occur in real-time. Bed check documentation must occur after the bed check is completed and bed checks can never, under any circumstance, be documented ahead of time, before any bed check is to occur.
• Ensure the facility is secure; all exterior doors, windows, and office doors as applicable are locked and secured.
• Create and support an environment by which each resident can be successful in making his/her own unique behavioral, emotional, intellectual, and developmental gains by:
• Teaching and fostering a resident’s skill development relative to his/her individual needs.
• Interacting and intervening with residents following their treatment plans and Individualized Crisis Support Plan.
• Maintain a physically and emotionally safe & supportive environment by:
• Developing and providing a safe and secure physical environment for each resident.
• Providing continuous supervision of residents.
• Using Therapeutic Crisis Intervention de-escalation techniques (proximity, time and space, caring gestures, etc.)
• Develop and maintain appropriate and positive relationships with residents by:
• Demonstrating appropriate social boundaries.
• Having a non-threatening and supportive demeanor.
• Actively involving residents in all facets of programming.
• Transporting and accompanying residents to school, off-ground activities, appointments in the community, and home visits.
• Perform other essential functions of the job, including:
• Complete all assigned paperwork (case documentation, reports, shift logs, etc) accurately and on time.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Report incidents of child maltreatment, neglect, and/or abuse.
• Assist in maintaining…