Milieu Coordinator

Responsibilities

The Milieu Coordinator regularly ensures the safety and security of the facility at all times by monitoring the movement of the units, ensuring programming is followed, supporting direct care staff and following all facility Policies and Procedures. The Milieu Coordinator actively works to support the facility mission of providing an environment of safety so that the residents feel empowered to heal the wounds of the past and build a foundation of hope for the future.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  An individual must be able to perform their duties in a positive work mode and serve as a positive role model and influence for clients and peers.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and/or Experience

                Bachelors degree in psychology, social work, education, criminal justice, or related mental health field and one year experience working with troubled                  youth. High School diploma and four years experience may be substituted where allowed by contracting authority.

• Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

Valid State Drivers License with appropriate Endorsements

Certified in CPR and First Aid

• Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and policy/procedure manuals, or governmental regulations.  Ability to write routine reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.  Additionally, must have basic computer knowledge that includes email/internet usage, Word and Excel.

• Mathematical Skills

                Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to apply concepts                  of basic algebra and geometry.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.  Elementary use of                                            computer spreadsheet programs.

• Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.  Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Physical Demands

            While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use fingers or hands to handle or feel; reach with hands                and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must regularly lift                                    and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distant, and                peripheral vision, color and depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.  The employee may occasionally be required to physically restrain clients, using              authorized restraint procedures as a last resort for protection of resident and staff

• Therapeutic Hold

            The Milieu Coordinator may be required to physically restrain clients, using authorized hold procedures as a last resort for protection of resident and staff.

• Work Environment

           The work environment for this position is a residential facility setting.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be exposed to clients                   who may ask inappropriate personal questions, display socially unacceptable personal behaviors, use profanity and sexually explicit phrases, make                       insulting remarks or threats regarding appearance, age, sex, or race, and exhibit defiance, dishonesty, and assaultive or self- destructive behaviors.  The             employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, and may be subject to occasional local travel as required by facility needs. The noise                   level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

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