Youth Care Worker

Full Time Youth Care Worker

Headland Group Home

FLSA - Non-Exempt

Reports to: Program Manager

Are you mission-minded and passionate about helping youth in your community and making a lasting impact on someone’s life? We are currently seeking a dedicated Youth Care Worker who will serve as a positive role model to support, lead, and encourage young people. You will have the chance to form lasting relationships, encourage positive behavior, and design activities to promote the overall welfare of youth, all while increasing your knowledge of social work and the child welfare system. We believe that personal relationships hold the key to changing behavior, and we place our trust in our passionate team of Youth Care Workers.

Our employees are dedicated individuals that are committed to our mission of inspiring positive changes in the lives of young people. Joining our team is more than just a job, it's an opportunity to create a meaningful career with an organization driven by its powerful mission to make a difference.

For more than 130 years we have been answering the call to serve, bringing life to the ongoing mission to care for children and families in crisis through homes, healing, and hope.

What you'll do:

• Provide appropriate supervision of residents to ensure their safety and well-being.
• Provide instruction for basic living skills to residents.
• Provide praise and positive feedback to residents to help build the self-confidence and esteem of residents.
• Assist with residents’ day-to-day needs and activities including provision of nutritious meals, supervising and assisting with household chores, ensuring school attendance, assisting with homework, etc.
• Demonstrate an ability to plan, organize and direct the activities of residents including scheduling and transporting residents to appointments.
• Work cooperatively with the Group Home Supervisor when work priorities are adjusted in emergency situations.
• Follow relevant safety practices and procedures.
• Ensure documentation is completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Assist other staff with ensuring that food and supplies are purchased and maintained in the facility.
• Compile required information and data to prepare required reports and/or documents. Ensure reports and/or documents are neatly and accurately prepared.
• Comply with UMCH policy and procedures, as well as Alabama Department of Human Resources regulations.
• Answer the telephone in a polite and professional manner. Ensures that telephone messages are accurate and relayed to the recipient in a timely manner. Helps with routine inquiries.
• Maintain client data and communications in designated computer databases.
• Maintain client confidentiality to include compliance with HIPAA regulations.
• Demonstrate a cooperative and helpful attitude while interacting with residents, co-workers, supervisory staff, volunteers and other stakeholders.
• Completes additional tasks as otherwise specified.

To be considered, you should:

• Be empathetic, patient, and treat others with respect.
• Have a desire to work in child welfare.
• Be able to spend the night in the residential facility for the entire duration of your shift.
• Be attentive to detail and be able to solve problems quickly and responsibly.
• Have excellent communication skills in both writing and speaking.
• Be at least 21 years of age.
• Have a high school diploma or have an equivalent certification (GED).
• Must have a valid driver’s license and a driving record that will allow coverage on the Agency’s insurance policy.
• Must receive a satisfactory background check that includes a check of employment and personal references, criminal history, driving background, Child Abuse & Neglect Registry, and pass a pre-employment physical examination including a TB skin test and drug screen.
• Previous experience in a related field is preferred.

About the Job:

This position involves overnight shifts. Spending the night at the group home is required.

The Advantages:

• A schedule that allows for more consecutive days off.
• 100% Company Paid Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability.
• 100% Company Paid AAA Membership.
• Eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Supplemental Insurance the following month after hire. Supplemental benefits, including additional life insurance, cancer, and accident insurance.
• Eligible for 403b Years of Service Employer Contribution 3% of your salary and an additional match of up to 3% of Employee Contribution after 1 year of employment.
• Paid Time Off that can be used as soon as you begin working.

Apply today and help us make a difference!

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About United Methodist Children's Home:

As followers of Christ, our passion for serving is motivated by compassion and a calling to provide homes, healing, and hope. We strive to be there for individuals who need someone to care for them when those closest to them can’t adequately provide that care. Those we serve experience hardships no one should have to face, including neglect, abuse, and abandonment. We nurture these vulnerable individuals by embracing them, meeting them where they are, and loving them unconditionally. We’re not only providing them with homes, we’re giving them a system of support and care to help them flourish. While faith is the core of our mission, we are driven by a desire to nurture, support, and prepare individuals for productive, thriving futures. We believe we can break what often becomes a cycle of neglect and circumstance for many vulnerable children and families. Our caring and compassionate team works to change the trajectory of the lives of those we serve in our homes and our programs are centered around family preservation, foster care, and school readiness.