Youth Care Worker

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE

Youth Care Worker 1st and 2nd Shift

PROGRAM

The Refugio Unaccompanied Children Shelter.

WORK SCHEDULE

Five Days per week, 40 hours per week, 12 months per year

LOCATION

San Benito, TX

REPORTS TO

Program Director

JOB TYPE

Full-Time position

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Youth Care Worker is responsible for the meaningful engagement of unaccompanied children (UC’s), with the aim of meeting their developmental, cultural, and care needs by ensuring their day to daycare, actively participating in program activities, supporting the UC’s case plan and developing their personal skills.

ABOUT YOU

The ideal candidate for our program is:

• A self-motivated and dedicated person who is excited and passionate about helping infants, toddlers, and families grow in development and in education.
• You are a personable, energetic, and empathetic leader who can manage multiple staff, managers, and multiple projects in a prior project in a prioritized manner to meet our internal Urban Strategies goals of all current Head Start Performance Standards.
  
  

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Ensuring a safe home for UC’s.
• Provide line of sight and sound supervision of children in order to be counted towards ratio requirements.
• Supervise children in order to be counted towards ratio requirements.
• Provide new and challenging opportunities for development.
• Encourage and assist in learning competencies for independence.
• Encourage and engage clients in educational and social activities.
• Facilitate community access and integration.
• Maintain tracking documents, logs, and reporting requirements.
• Work as a team with other Youth Care workers and shift supervisors to promote a safe and healthy environment for the UC.
• Adhere to Case Plan for assigned UC with direction from Caseworkers and/or supervisors.
• Support appropriate cultural activities.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

EXPERIENCE And/or REQUIREMENTS TO BE CONSIDERED

High School Diploma or GED equivalent; 12 months of experience working with young people; a driver’s license and knowledge of MS Office 365

Bilingual English/Spanish

Competencies : Understands importance of DEI, proactive, can mediate conflict, approaches the workplace with a team approach

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE And/or REQUIREMENTS

N/A

WORKING CONDITIONS

SALARY

$19.66 Hourly

ABOUT US

Urban Strategies was founded by a Hispanic woman in 2003. Our mission is to equip, resource, and connect faith- and community-based organizations that are engaged in community transformation. Our overall vision is to see all children and families reach their full potential.

We work with trusted faith- and community-based organizations and focus on the Latino community to engage and come alongside the whole family. Our vision is that all children and families reach their full potential. Our organization is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Our team works across the United States and Puerto Rico with direct service centers located in California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York, and Puerto Rico. We also have some programming conducted in Latin America.

COMPANY CULTURE

Our work is driven by our three core values:

• Authentic Relationships are foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
• Servant Leadership is rooted in an other-centric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals, families, and communities.
• Intentional Compassion describes a deliberate commitment to understand, formulate strategic responses, and activate others to reach their full potential.
  
  

BENEFITS

• Remote work for eligible positions.
• Medical, dental is paid 95% by company, 5% by employee (individual or family) eligible first day of hire.
• Vision is covered 100% (individual or family) eligible first day of hire.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Vacation time is generous but varies depending on program and position.*
• Every teammate gets long and short-term disability free.
• Positions that require laptops, company provides one.
• Positions that require cellphone, company issues one.
  
  

PERKS

• Meaningful employee engagement programs.
• Education discounts (BA-PhD) with a variety of education partners.
  
  

OTHER

• Employment requires occasional travel within the local community, to programs in a similar demographic area, and to required training/conferences and/or work-related meetings.
• All employees must pass a mandatory criminal background check and a bilingual language test for positions that require them.
• Employment is conditional pending satisfactory results of all required tests and background checks.
  
  

Periodic physical examinations and TB clearances will be required yearly if hired. * Some positions are governed by Service Contract Act guidelines and grants management policy.

In keeping with its equal employment opportunity legal requirements, Urban Strategies will not discriminate against any person in employment because of legally protected classifications such as race, color, national origin, or sex. Urban Strategies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or other legally protected classifications under applicable federal, state, and local legal protections. This policy applies to all terminations and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotions, terminations, layoffs, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Please note that Urban Strategies in order to fulfill its mission is legally allowed to make decisions in its employment practices based on its distributed employee manual. All employee positions are critical to the fulfillment of this mission. Consequently, Urban Strategies expects all employees to live out the standards set forth in the Employee Handbook and otherwise interpreted by the Urban Strategies leadership. Among other things, this means that Urban Strategies may take employment-related action against an employee based on his or her noncompliance with the policies, procedures, and practices of Urban Strategies, including employment termination.

To Apply:

Please visit www.urbanstrategies.us/careers

Contact us with any questions at Recruiting@urbanstrategies.us

Equal Opportunity Employer