The Youth Counselor works as scheduled in the Group Home, providing supervision, support, and direction to children fostering their positive growth and development; maintains a hazard-free, clean, and orderly household; prepares meals to conform to menus; completes all required logs, forms and reports, participates in meetings as scheduled; accompanies groups or individual children for outside activities or appointments as scheduled.

Responsibilities:

Provides a warm, homelike atmosphere by establishing an individual relationship with each resident focusing on that resident’s positive growth and development.  Under the supervision of the Supervising staff, ensure an orderly schedule for the residents by supervising their daily activities: wake-up, school or other program attendance, mealtime, study time, assigned Group Home chores, and bedtime; monitor individual appointments for each child to endure punctual attendance.  Monitors each youth’s physical well-being ensuring suitable clothing, adequate food, and all required medical treatments, including medication dispensing.  Communicates and enforces Group Home rules with each child; applies discipline as outlined in Group Home procedures fairly and objectively.  Accompanies and transports children to outside activities (including supervised recreation) and appointments as required.