This position is responsible for coordinating client issues at the Brown Center.

Eric Sanchez
erics@htop.org
970.252.0161

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest. Other assigned duties include:
1. Preparing individual service plans and scheduling monthly service plan meetings.
2. Maintaining contact with youth, family, caseworker, therapist, school and any other parties involved in care or treatment of the client.
3. Managing bed space and monitoring admission and discharge of youth including DRS forms for the Detention youth.
4. Complete Medicaid forms and status of committed youth.
5. Ensures that appropriate medical treatment is afforded all youth. This includes coordinating medical, dental, and vision appointments for youth.
6. Responsible for progress reports, monthly and discharge, for all assigned youth.
7. Supervising the daily routine and schedule of youth.
8. Ensuring that youth's goals, restitution, and community services are being adhered to.
9. Maintaining files and records on youth.
10. Conducting new client orientation.
11. Representing oneself as a role modeling of positive and professional attitudes and behaviors, which includes dress, language, and actions towards youth, staff, and community members.
12. Attending meetings, court hearings, and other appointments relevant to the care of the client.
13. Supervision of the staff, clients, and program in the Program Coordinator’s absence.
14. Adhering to RCCF and DYC policy and procedures. Participate in monitoring and audits.
15. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university and three years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: Master’s degree, CAC credential
Experience: 4 years or more work experience as a case manager in an RTC or RCCF or working in the human services field working with families and/or youth at risk; personal, family, or group counseling.
Special Skills: CPI; CPR/First Aide, Medication Qualification Training.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret general business practices, Hilltop policies and procedures, professional journals, technical guidelines, and governmental regulations. Must be able to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Must be able to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Must be able to accurately and clearly provide direction to staff and residents.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Must be able to add and subtract two digit numbers, and to multiply and divide by 10’s and 100’s. Must be able to perform these operations using units of American money, weight measurements, volume measurement, and distance. Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY
Must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Must be able to interpret instructions that are furnished in a variety of formats including written, oral, diagram, and/or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
• CPR Certificate/First Aid Certificate
• Colorado Driver’s License
• Medication Administration Certification
• Certificate from Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI Training).

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background
• Child Abuse Registry
• Drug Screen
• Driving record

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 2 ]
1) - Job tasks involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue.
2) - Job tasks involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, but employment may require unplanned category 1 exposure.

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.

Mobility:
• Must be able to stand 20% of the time; sit 60% of the time; walk 20% of the time.
• Climbing (ascends or descends ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
• Stooping (bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist).
• Kneeling (bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees).
• Crouching (bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
• Reaching (extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction).
Dexterity:
• Handling (seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands).
• Fingering (picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers).
• Feeling (perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 60 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

Communication:
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Must be able to clearly understand the English language and be understood while speaking the English language. Must be able to give instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing:
• Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Taste/Smell:
• Must be able to distinguish, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognize particular flavors and/or odors, using the tongue and/or nose.

Vision: Must have the following vision abilities:
• Close vision (clear at 20 inches or less).
• Far vision (clear at 20 feet or more).
• Depth perception (Three-dimensional vision. The ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.)
• Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
• Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
• Field of vision (observing an area that can be seen up and down or right or left while eyes are fixed in a given point).

Physical effort:
• Medium work (moderate physical activity required by handling objects up to 60 pounds occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently).

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical surroundings:
• 90% of time is spent indoors; 10% of time is spent outdoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.