Responsible for the coordination of services and documentation for the adolescent population at Residential Youth Services (RYS).

Candice Batterson
candiceb@htop.org
970.245.3952

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. Completing all necessary documentation for all youth in the program, including admissions, initial Service Plans, review Service Plans, and monthly summaries. Maintain ongoing records of all case management contacts. Create progress summaries and share as scheduled with the referring agency.
2. Completing discharge instructions which are prepared for the discharging party at the time of the youth’s discharge from the program. Completing final discharge summaries within the proscribed period of time, and appropriately sharing the summary with the referring party. Creating after care recommendations, recreational opportunities and contacts, and clinical guidelines for placement as part of a 52 day aftercare program.
3. Ensuring all necessary billing information is provided for accurate billing in a timely fashion.
4. Responsibility to ensure that each youth file is accurate and contains all pertinent information.
5. Facilitating and recording a fortnightly clinical staffing for each youth, ensuring that the licensed clinical treatment provider is present at least one staffing per month.
6. Maintaining all necessary paperwork and releases that enable youth to safely and legally participate in recreational activities. Drafting a brief monthly summary regarding each youth’s participation in group recreational activities.
7. Coordinating WIA activities, to include intake paperwork, project creation and supervision, tracking of hours worked, etc.
8. Representing youth at parole hearings, community review boards, court, secure placement hearings, expulsion hearings, etc.
9. Coordinating and monitoring all emancipation activities occurring off campus, including tracking youth at work, treatment groups, recreational activities, and coordination of after care.
10. Coordinating Job Corps admissions and admission interview preparation. Acting as liaison with Job Corps, and attending weekly “Behavior Management” meetings at the Center.
11. Overseeing the youth, including approval of visits and phone contacts. Maintains approved contact lists.
12. Overseeing the medical needs of the youth, including health, dental, and vision needs. Ensures medical appointments are arranged and attended in a timely manner. Ensuring follow up care is provided, and medical information is communicated as appropriate.
13. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position has no supervisory duties.

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
A bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university with a major in behavioral science, human services or related fields, and three years experience in working with children, or a combination of experience, education, and training that provide the necessary knowledge, skills and abilites is required.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: Master’s degree in a related field of study (psychology, social work, etc).
Experience: 1 year case management experience; 1 year group facilitation experience (must facilitate at
least one group per week)
Special Skills: Must have at least 2 of the following: (1) QMAP Certification, (2) CPR/First Aide
Certification, (3) CPI Certification, (4) Informed Supervisor of Sex Offenders

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, as well as Hilltop and program specific policies and procedures. Must be able to write routine documentation and correspondence as required. Must be able to verbally communicate effectively with youth, staff and management.

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 may exist. Must be able to interpret a variety of instructions and complex information furnished in written, oral, or schedule form.

MENTAL ABILITY
Oral comprehension and expression, written comprehension and expression, and the ability to write effectively are all essential to the performance of the duties required of this position.

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

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background/CBI/fingerprints
• Child Abuse Registry

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 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 25% of the time; sit 50% of the time; walk 25% of the time.
• Climbing (ascends or descends ladders, stairs, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
• Balancing (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces).
• 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).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 50 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, and/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:
• 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 50 pounds occasionally and/or up to 25 pounds frequently, and be involved in active recreation activities with the youth).

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:
• 50% of time is spent indoors; 50% of time is spent outdoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.