Residential Youth Care Worker/Behavioral Health Tech 2 + years of experience - VALID fingerprint clearance card and clean background check required
Location: Buckeye, AZ
Various shifts including overnights, weekends, evenings
Salary Range: $17.00 to $18.00 D.O.E
We are a Department of Child Safety contracted Youth Group Home.
We have a passion to help less fortunate youth by nurturing independency, gaining/sustaining life skills, and engaging community support partners. Our goal is to create a therapeutic environment for youth to heal, process, and grow from the trauma experienced in their lives.
Position Summary:
We are looking for compassionate and caring individuals to add to our team. We are currently looking for individuals minimum 21 years of age, with residential or behavioral health experience.
You will be working with abused, abandoned and/or neglected male youth age ranging from 12 years old to 18 years old. You will teach and lead youth with normal day to day activities (i.e., cooking, cleaning, hygiene) and daily life skills. You will be an important role in the healing, growth, and development of the youth in the home by being a role model, having an understanding therapeutic approach and being calm and even tempered.
Job Duties:
Residential Youth Care/Behavioral Health Tech
Day to day care of youth in the home included but not limited to, cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc.
Administering scheduled daily prescribed and over the counter medication.
Daily Documentation of the events of the day/shift.
Writing 3rd Person Incident Reports when necessary.
Teaching life and independent living skills.
Attendance and transportation to and from work, school, events, and activities as well as medical and dental appointments.
