Youth Specialist I - RESET Residential

Sycamores; Altadena (CA); On-site; USD 31,684 - 35,817; Full time

Job summary

Sycamores in Altadena, California, is hiring a Youth Specialist to provide care and behavioral interventions for youth in residential programs. The role includes developing coping skills, social skills, and supporting transference into everyday settings.

Starting pay ranges from $23 to $26 per hour, based on experience and education. The position requires 21+ age, two years of direct care experience, and maintaining driving qualifications.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Two or more years of direct care experience required.
• Acceptable driving record as determined by Agency policy.
• Proof of auto insurance meeting minimum coverage requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide care, supervision, and behavioral interventions for youth.
• Develop coping and problem-solving skills in youth.
• Teach social skills and promote their transfer to home, school, and community.

Skills

Behavioral interventions

Crisis intervention

Driving skills

Job description

Posted Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM

JOB SUMMARY

Sycamores provides a spectrum of equitable mental health services through various programs to multicultural populations of all acuities. Although it serves a variety of consumers, the agency focuses primarily on providing care to low-income, high-risk youth.

The role of the Youth Specialist is to provide care, supervision and behavioral interventions that develop coping and problem-solving skills, teach social skills, and teach transference of those skills into the home, school, and community. These interventions are provided to youth in the residential programs. These interventions are developed within the collaborative planning process and are prescribed by the program.

Starting Pay Range

$23- $26 per hour (starting pay will be based on previous work experience and educational background.)

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Two or more years of direct care experience required.
• Maintains all required licenses and certifications.
• As this position requires the driving of company vehicles for crisis intervention, including the provision of urgent or emergency services, driving is an essential function of this position. Candidate qualifications therefore include:
• Acceptable driving record as determined Agency policy.
• Proof of auto insurance meeting minimum coverage requirements.

Physical Demands

• For Residential staff only, the ability to physically manage and/or de-escalate consumers/residents. This includes the physical ability to restrain consumers in conformity with Pro-ACT training.
• Ability to practice physical intervention for safety of consumers according to training and policy.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
• Frequent driving in the community with consumers.
• Frequent/continuous intermittent standing/walking, occasional/intermittent sitting.
• Continuous use of bilateral upper extremities in fine motor activities requiring fingering, grasping, and forward reaching between waist and chest level.
• Reaching at or above shoulder level may be necessary.
• Bending, squatting, kneeling, pushing/pulling, twisting, and climbing.
• Occasional/intermittent lifting and carrying objects/equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Continuous use of near vision, hearing, and verbal communication skills in handling telephone calls, interacting with customers and co-workers and performing job duties.
• Requires physical presence in the office during shift.

All candidates who are presented with a conditional offer of employment must satisfy a pre-employment background check, drug, and health screen.

Sycamores is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

Further, Sycamores is a Fair Chance employer and complies with California Government Code Section 12952, Employment Discrimination: Conviction History