Youth Independent Living Evening Support Specialist, PT

Intercept Health; Abingdon (VA); In loco; USD 23.000 - 28.000; Tempo pieno

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Sign-on bonus

Descrizione del lavoro

Intercept Health, Virginia, seeks an Evening Support Specialist for the YouthQuest program. The role centers on supervising residents, helping with life skills, transportation, and administrative duties, with a schedule primarily in the evenings and on weekends.

You will guide residents in personal hygiene, meals, housekeeping, and behavior support, monitor curfews, and document incidents. A human services degree or equivalent experience is required.

Competenze

• Interpersonal communication skills to gain resident cooperation and resolve conflicts.
• Experience with transportation, outings, and community appointments.
• Ability to supervise personal hygiene, meals, housekeeping, and weekly chores.
• Experience applying behavioral systems with fair, firm and consistent approach.

Mansioni

• Use good interpersonal communication to gain resident cooperation and resolve conflicts.
• Provide transportation and supervise residents on outings and appointments.
• Guide residents in personal hygiene, meal prep, housekeeping, and laundry; review weekly chores.
• Exercise fair, firm, and consistent use of behavioral system.
• Supervise administration of medications as appropriate.
• Check condominiums for curfew, work, or approved passes and document incidents.

Conoscenze

Interpersonal communication

Transportation supervision

Behavioral support

Medication supervision

Formazione

Human services degree OR related experience

Descrizione del lavoro

Evening Support Specialist - Youth Quest

The schedule for this position is primarily late evenings & weekends.

Now offering a $2,000 sign on bonus!

$17-$20/hour.

Intercept Health is a family-owned agency serving various mental and behavioral health, substance use, and foster care needs in Virginia. In 1996, what started as a single group home for boys has evolved year after year to fill gaps and meet the service needs of families and communities throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

"We help people grow and live their healthiest lives."

VALUES - STOP & ASK

• Service Excellence - "WOW" clients, customers, and coworkers.
• Team Loyalty - help others succeed.
• Ownership - "see it, own it, solve it, do it."
• Passion - inspire with positive energy and effort.

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• Authenticity - be genuine and trustworthy.
• Solution Focused - overcome challenges with creativity.
• Kindness - smile, encourage, and respect everyone.

As Evening Support Specialist for Intercept Health's YouthQuest, you will serve as a positive role model for residents to observe and learn socially effective values, attitudes and behaviors. You will contribute to the formulation and implementation of the resident transitional living plan and assist with life skills learning, transportation, and administrative duties.

Responsibilities

• Use good interpersonal communication skills to gain resident cooperation and resolve resident conflicts. Interact with all residents while maintaining appropriate relationships which do not allow self-disclosure of personal or social information to residents.
• Provide transportation, accompany, and directly supervise residents on outings, activities and appointments in the community.
• Guide residents in personal hygiene techniques and the proper care of their condominiums. Assist residents in meal preparation steps. Guide and instruct residents in proper housekeeping and laundry procedures; review completion of weekly chores.
• Exercise fair, firm and consistent use of behavioral system.
• Supervise the administration of medications as appropriate.
• Check each condominium to ensure residents are in by curfew, working, or on an approved pass. Document all incidences in communication log and contact the Life Skills Coach or Program Supervisor. Record accurate and complete information in the resident chart pertaining to: resident behavior, critical incidents, AWOLs, restrictions, unusual sleep patterns, etc.

Education And Experience

• The Evening Support Specialist shall have a human services Bachelors degree (Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Special Education, etc) OR a High School diploma with at least one year of experience working with children and/or families.

To learn more about the Youth Independent Living Program, check out the following video.

To review the full job description and to more about Intercept Health, please visit: www.intercepthealth.com

Intercept Health is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in the workplace.

We are also committed to providing a drug-free, safe workplace for our employees and the clients we serve.

For more information about Intercept Health, please visit our website www.intercepthealth.com.

Salary: $17 - $20 per hour