Direct Care Staff

Family & Children Services, Inc.; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 22,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Family & Children Services, Inc. in Kalamazoo, MI, is seeking staff for crisis residential services focused on emergency youth placement and safety. You will monitor program services and support individuals in reaching their goals.

Shifts include evenings 3pm-11pm, weekends 3pm-11pm and 7am-3pm, plus overnights. The role requires a high school diploma, some related experience, and will involve direct care and documentation to maintain a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum high school diploma and 2 years related training/experience or college work preferred.
• Lived experience with behavioral health issues is desired.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring recipients basic needs are met including personal hygiene, nutrition, health, sleep routine, and safety.
• Teaching, supporting, and reinforcing skills through role modeling, sharing information, demonstrating, redirecting/directing, prompting, and behavior management.
• Establishing positive relationships with youth and overseeing progress toward goals.
• Completes household tasks to maintain a safe, orderly, and clean environment.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Basic caregiving

Education

High school diploma

2 years related training/experience or college work

Job description

Description

Hiring for evenings 3pm-11pm, weekends 3pm-11pm & 7am-3pm and overnights only!!

Summary

This position provides crisis residential services focused on emergency placement of youth, monitoring program services to assure safety, and to encourage and support individuals in reaching their goals.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the agency's program and business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those described below.

• Ensuring recipients basic needs are met including personal hygiene, nutrition, health, sleep routine, and safety.
• Teaching, supporting, and reinforcing skills through role modeling, sharing information, demonstrating, redirecting/directing, prompting, and behavior management, both on an individual and group basis.
• Establishing positive relationships with youth; providing regular oversight of youth’s progress toward goals.
• Completes household tasks which maintain a safe, orderly, and clean environment for recipients and other staff.
• May provide transportation to recipients.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen, background check, reference verification, and required child welfare clearances

Requirements

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Minimum high school diploma and 2 years related training/experience or college work preferred.
• Lived experience with behavioral health issues is desired.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Mandt, C.P.R. and first aid certification or the ability to become certified/trained
• Acceptable driving record in compliance with agency policy
• Applicants must have a valid Michigan driver’s license and acceptable driving record in accordance with agency policies.
• Must possess use of a personal vehicle for transportation with valid automobile insurance which designates the employee as an insured driver in accordance with agency policy. May utilize Agency vehicles if available.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, and carry infants in car seats and assist youth into car seats.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Ability to provide a clear TB test is required for this role
• Pre-employment physical is required for this role
• Program operates on a 24/7 schedule. Weekends and holidays will be required. Shifts may include 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., or 3 to 11 p.m.

Salary Description

$16.00-$17.50 depending on experience