Youth Care Worker II - TrueCore Behavioral Solutions, LLC
Tampa, FL 33619
About the Job
Education:
Associate's Degree in related field and one year experience working with youth in an organized setting; OR High school diploma or equivalent and along with 2 years of residential experience.
Internal candidates who have been in a Youth Care Worker I position for a minimum of one (1) year and received at least a 2.0 rating on their most recent performance evaluation. Will be required to complete 20.5 hours of Leadership Development courses to provide back up support to the Shift Supervisor when needed.
Other Requirements:
Must be 21 years of age or older.
Must have at least one year of experience working with youth.
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in the state where the work site is located only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
D. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Ability to maintain positive professional working relationship with co-workers and juveniles.
Ability to comply with rotating mandatory stay list.
Ability to cope with crisis situations that occurs in a juvenile facility.
Ability to follow orders explicitly.
Ability to empathize with juveniles from different backgrounds.
Ability to work with a variety of behaviors.
Ability to tolerate verbal and mental abuse while maintaining a professional demeanor.
Ability to perform appropriate crisis intervention, including physically breaking up fights.
Ability to participate in escape apprehension activities and to respond to emergency situation requirements.
Ability to complete pre-service and annual in-service CPR and first aid certification training and self-defense and physical intervention training.
Ability to pass drug and TB screening and testing.
Ability to work under pressure; meet inflexible deadlines; set priorities; deal diplomatically with difficult individuals; and supervise others; ability to manage multiple programs; lead management teams and work independently. Adherence to the highest ethical standards essential.
Ability to write concise and accurate reports.
E. Equipment Utilized
Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
F. Physical Requirements & Work Environment:
Talking: Ability to express and exchange ideas via spoken word during activities in which they must convey details or important spoken instructions to others accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly. Hearing and Vision: Ability to perceive the nature of sounds with no less than 40 dB loss at Hz, 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication. Work requires a minimum standard of visual acuity with or without correction that will enable employees to complete clerical tasks, and observe youth. Dexterity: Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, push, pull, lift, grasp, and be able to perceive the attributes of an object such as size, shape, and temperature. Movements frequently and regularly required using wrists, hands and/or fingers. Physical Strength: Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally. Position is mostly standing and employee must be able to physically perform escalation matrix as defined in Protective Action Response. This may include, but is not limited to all countermoves and restraint techniques. Employee may be subject to temperature changes, but the employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions as the work is predominantly inside. Language: Ability to write complex sentences, using proper punctuation, and ability to communicate in complex sentences using normal word order with present and past tenses. Processing and Reasoning: Ability to exercise self-control in potentially volatile situations such as in verbal and physical confrontations. Must be able to work and concentrate amidst distractions and noise. Ability to assist youth with problem solving and maintaining self-control in volatile situations.
The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions as they relate to travel. The noise level is usually moderate. Work environment may involve exposure to noise, dust, fumes, dangerous machinery, chemicals, body fluids, falling objects, and aggressive verbal and physical behavior from students and weather and temperature extremes.
Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the company undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.