Milieu Counselor (Youth Care Worker) - Overnight shift

Milieu Counselor
- Long Term Group Home (Overnight Shift)

Job Type: Full Time

Location:

Mt Scott, Oregon Department: ORR Long Term Group Home

Reports To:

Milieu Supervisor Salary: $20.28/hr.

- $22.35/hr. (non-bilingual), $22.10/hr.

- $24.36/hr. (Bilingual
- Spanish)

Shifts:

Overnight
- Sunday through Wednesday 9:30pm-8am.

Morrison Child and Family Services:
We are a Joint Commission and Sanctuary accredited non-profit organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, and their families. As an agency, Morrison, its team members, and clients commit to the following values of trauma-informed care:

• Nonviolence - being safe and doing the right thing
• Emotional Intelligence - managing our feelings so we don't hurt ourselves or others
• Social Learning - respecting and sharing ideas of our teams
• Democracy - shared decision making whenever possible
• Open Communication - saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it
• Social Responsibility - everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture
• Growth and Change - creating hope for our clients and ourselves

Job Summary:

The Milieu Counselor is responsible for providing direct care supervision and maintaining a safe and supportive environment for Unaccompanied Children (UC) in accordance to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) licensing standards, Agency and program policies and standards, and other federal, state, and local regulatory requirements. The program is a 24-hour shelter for male and female minors between the ages of 14
-17. The program works with adolescents in a residential facility. The Youth Care Worker/Milieu Counselor (MC) provides direct supervision of youth in care and always maintains effective line-of-sight supervision. MC assists with vocational and daily living skills and is involved in working one-on-one, in groups and school settings, provides transportation and guidance for safety during resident outings and participates in serving daily meals, depending on program requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide effective supervision of milieu and youth activities according to the program's daily schedule.
• Complete documentation of services in a timely manner, including internal incident reports and shift summaries.
• Transport and/or accompany youth to local appointments and other client outings.
• De-escalate youth using behavior management techniques and perform appropriate follow ups
• As a last resort, perform physical restraints of clients as needed following approved crisis intervention model methods.
• Administer medication to youth, including required documentation and disposal.
• Is aware of Morrison Compliance Program including Compliance Officer, Compliance Standards of Conduct, and Employee Compliance Hotline. Understands Compliance Standards of Conduct and signs attestation document. Completes all assigned compliance, HIPAA, client privacy, and fraud, waste, and abuse training. Knows how to report any client privacy or fraud, waste, or abuse concerns.
• Demonstrate a commitment to learning and implementing the Sanctuary Model and other organizational policies and practices.
• Participate in staff development, in-services, and training related to workplace effectiveness; model professional behaviors and implement improvements to business practices with awareness of their impact in a trauma-informed behavioral healthcare organization.

Competencies:

(Competencies are the abilities and qualities a person needs to be successful in this job)

• Ability to lead a group of staff and clients.
• Ability to maintain composure and professional boundaries in chaotic situations; ability to effectively diffuse or de-escalate potentially volatile situations with clients and/or visitors.
• Ability to keep accurate records and maintain confidentiality;
• Ability to follow oral and written directives;
• Availability to work on any of the seven days of the week; availability to work any shift of the day, including, but not limited to, Swing, or Early Morning, or both;
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally, and in writing,
• Base knowledge of program policy and procedure, including the importance of safety and security in a residential setting.

Required Position Qualifications :

• At least 21 years of age
• Driver License
• High School Diploma
• Minimum of 1 year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
• Basic computer skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, databases and Outlook

Preferred Position Qualifications : (Additional skills, experience, or education that are not required but would make a candidate especially well-suited for the job).

• Bi-lingual in Spanish and English, written, read and verbal strongly preferred. Must clear a language proficiency test for Spanish.
• Residential experience
• Knowledge of adolescent developmental issues, trauma, abuse and neglect, substance abuse and dependence, delinquency, peer influence, and related group and individual interventions.

Other Requirements:

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