This position is responsible for supervising direct care staff for the Residential Youth Services program, and ensuring the appropriate provision of services to the youth of the program.

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest.
1. Ensuring adequate staff coverage and staff to youth ratios.
2. Completing all appropriate documentation for each employee’s personnel file, and ensuring that personnel files are complete and current.
3. Providing appropriate employee training, and documenting the completion of training for the personnel file.
4. Providing supervision every two weeks for each Youth Coach, providing feedback, coaching, and direction, and maintaining proper documentation of each supervisory contact.
5. Conducting routine staff meetings
6. Overseeing all medical needs of the youth, including health, dental, vision and hearing. Ensuring that needed transportation is provided for each program youth, and transportation is documented. Ensuring follow up care is provided as needed, and medical information is shared only with those who have a business need to know in a timely manner.
7. Monitoring the appropriate provision of basic needs to each program youth, including food, clothing, and daily living supplies. This includes the provision of nutritious meals daily, and the timely completion of check requisitions and purchase orders.
8. Maintaining accurate client records, including client allowance and personal funds.
9. Ensuring that room searches are conducted according to policy, and findings accurately documented.
10. Collecting, submitting, documenting and monitoring urinalysis results.
11. Participating in interviewing and hiring appropriate Youth Coach staff and doing so in a timely manner.
12. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position supervises the Youth Coach staff at Residential Youth Services.

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 in a related field and three years of experience in a human services related field working directly with children; or a master’s degree and two years of treatment-related experience.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: 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
Experience: 1 year supervisory experience; 2 years RCCF/TRCCF experience;
Special Skills: 1 year group facilitation experience (must facilitate at least one group per week)

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

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 10% of the time; sit 60% of the time; walk 30% of the time.
• 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 40 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:
• Light work (light physical effort is required by handling objects up to 20 pounds occasionally and/or up to 10 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:
• 80% of time is spent indoors; 20% of time is spent outdoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.