Youth Care Specialist 1

Your job in the department is to . . . 

Perform professional care and monitoring of youth activities in a multiple purpose Juvenile Shelter.

Your job also involves . . .

Monitoring daily activities of youth placed in the Facility and other programs. Providing 24-hour intake duties for all referred youth during shift.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

Minimum Education Level

High School Diploma / GED

Minimum Experience Level:

One year 

Specifics: Six months of experience in work dealing with youth, preferably in a group or correctional setting.

Certifications

Certification(s) required 

Specifics: Food Handler’s Certificate; Certified in First Aid and CPR.      

 Driver’s License

Oregon Driver's License required

Desirable Qualifications

Certified in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (CPI).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND/OR ABILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The required knowledge, skills and/or abilities are listed below:

Knowledge of:

Skill or ability to:

• Secure the confidence and cooperation of facility staff, other agencies, public officials, and community.
• Physical capability to interact with others and intervene in possible physical disputes. 
• Maintain proper control by anticipating and preventing acts of violence by youths admitted to the facility. 
• Work as a team with coworkers in rotating shifts in a 24-hour facility.
• Convey information, ideas, and facts both orally and in writing to supervisors, colleagues, and individuals, inside and outside the County, using language and a format the audience will best understand.   
• Utilize computers and other technology to communicate in written and verbal forms (e.g., word processing, texts, emails, spreadsheets, department-specific software).
• Effectively relate well with others, including supervisors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside the County.  Exhibit a professional manner in dealing with others and working to maintain constructive working relationships.  
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work.  Show up to work on time, and follows instructions, policies, and procedures.  Meet productivity standards, deadlines, and work schedules.   

WORKING CONDITIONS

Job Conditions: Position may require evening meetings, long work hours (outside of business hours in the mornings, evenings, and/or weekends), working extended hours and on-call status, and exposure to physically violent people. Requires dealing with angry and/or distraught people. Requires transporting youth alone, and travel within and outside the County on a regular basis.

Work Location: Lincoln County

Travel:   Anticipated Travel 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands are typical of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ADA COMPLIANCE: Physical capability to handle high mobility demands and complex personal interactions.

• Physical Ability: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require visual perception and discrimination. Some tasks require oral communications ability. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed with exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

Lincoln County is committed to providing reasonable accommodations as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This job description indicates, in general, the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities, and essential functions expected of the position.   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.