Position: Youth Behavioral Health Specialist-I and II (all shifts available: day, evening, overnight, weekend)

Salary: $17.00 - $20.00 hourly

(Starting salary depends on education, licensure, and years of experience)

Job Type: Full Time, Minimum 30 hours per week

Purpose:

Cornerstones of Care is seeking caring team members to help youth heal from trauma while in our 24/7 residential program located in south KCMO. Relationships are key to healing and our Youth Behavioral Health Specialists make the difference for our youth through their daily interactions. The Youth Behavioral Health Specialist model strong, positive relationships with youth while leading therapeutic activities and groups, teaching daily living skills, ensuring safety and managing behaviors. As part of the trauma-informed treatment team, Youth Behavioral Health Specialists act as a coach, mentor and role model to youth by through their interactions/activities and reinforcing treatment plans.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for direct supervision and safety of all clients.
• Responsible for proper behavior management of children through the use of behavior management techniques.
• Build healthy relationships with clients and be a role model of healthy behaviors
• Have a working knowledge of child's treatment plan and objectives and structures activities to support that plan.
• Responsible for creatively structuring activities for groups and conducting psycho-educational groups.
• May be responsible for medication administration and other medical support.
• Responsible for the reviewing/writing of all required documentation.
• Responsible for teaching, guiding, and assisting the client in daily life skills as appropriate for age.
• Provide 24 hour awake supervision.
• May assist classroom teacher in performing classroom duties.
• Ability to manage clients courteously and tactfully while on agency property.

Required Skills or Abilities

• Excellent oral/written communication skills.
• Ability to form professional relationships with internal and external clients.
• Required trainings as specified by the agency.
• Ability to serve as an appropriate role model for clients.
• Valid driver's license and vehicle insurance and insurable by agency carrier.

Minimum Requirements

Youth Behavioral Health Specialist I

• Education Level: High school diploma
• Experience: The preferred candidate will have two years' experience working with children.

Youth Behavioral Health Specialist II

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree in social services, child development, or criminal justice
• Experience: The preferred candidate will have two years experience working with children.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to perform a range of physical motions including, but not limited to:

• Lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs.
• Support and safely lower 150 pounds of weight to the floor
• Standing, walking, sitting for long periods of time
• Must be able to get up and down off the floor unassisted
• Must be able to reach above their heads, bend, kneel, and lift
• Running for brief periods of time
• Ability to use senses of sight and hearing to effectively supervise clients
• Must possess, or be willing to attain CPR, First Aid, and Safe Crisis Management (SCM) Training (with sufficient passing score) within 2 weeks of hire date.

BENEFITS: Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes: Paid Holiday, Paid Time Away, medical/dental/vision; prescriptions; accident and critical illness insurance; pet insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; term life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D); health savings account (HSA); flexible spending account (FSA); retirement (401K); employee assistance program (EAP); YMCA membership discounts; Tuition Reimbursement Program and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. To view a detailed Summary of Benefits please visit our website at and under the heading "About Us" click on "Join Our Team."

CORNERSTONES OF CARE'S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS:

• Nonviolence-helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose
• Emotional Intelligence-helping to teach emotional management skills
• Social Learning-helping to build cognitive skills
• Open Communication-helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management
• Democracy-helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
• Social Responsibility-helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships
• Growth and Change-helping to work through loss and prepare for the future

Questions?

Please contact: Cornerstones of Care, Human Resources Department

8150 Wornall Road, KCMO 64114

Phone: (816) 853-1942 Fax: (816) 508-1757

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Cornerstones of Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer