Do you have a passion for making a difference in the lives of teenage girls? The Gladney Center for Adoption provides a safe and nurturing environment for teenage girls who come from hard places and have experienced profound trauma. As a Residential Coordinator, you will be a valued member of the team with the passion to work with these young women to provide them a nurturing environment with structure and learning while they navigate their daily schedules and responsibilities.
Responsibilities include:
- Provides a safe and nurturing learning environment for teenage girls.
- Assists youth with treatment goals, homework, self-regulation, hygiene plans.
- Facilitates daily schedules, meets time commitments and completion of daily tasks.
- Supports creation of nutritious menu’s, grocery shopping and supervision of preparing healthy meals and snacks under direction of the program coordinator.
- Models and teaches healthy connections with teens, self-management and coping skills, and safety through dependability and making good choices.
- Facilitates engaging interactions and recreational activities, outings, and social engagement.
- Transports youth to and from school, appointments, extracurricular activities, and outings.
- Complies with 24-hour awake supervision requirement.
- Dispenses medication and maintains accurate medication logs.
- Maintains residents, keeping facility clean and reports maintenance needs.
- Thoroughly documents shift experience and communicates needs of youth with supervisor and with other shifts based on licensing standards and Gladney policies.
- Maintains a trauma- informed lens when working with youth in all aspects of the assigned duties.
- Upholds a regulated and controlled communication and interaction with youth at all times.
Minimum Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor’s degree in human services field, preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel; Microsoft Teams
- Valid/current driver’s license. Must be able to drive at night.
- Physically able to use authorized crisis Intervention techniques, cook, clean, participate in programming activities, and carry and/or lift 25lbs.
Preferred Qualifications
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- Experience with TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention), SAMA, and Crisis Intervention techniques, preferred.
- Skilled in trauma- informed-care and meeting the complex needs of vulnerable children and youth.
- Experience working with adolescents and/or at-risk youth, preferably in a residential setting.
- Willing to work holidays, during inclement weather, and additional shifts as needed.
- Strong time management, responsive, accurate and team-oriented.
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills.
- High standards of confidentiality, trustworthiness, discretion and professionalism.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision.