Youth Worker
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Project Hospitality
NY
Summary
The Youth Worker ensures client safety and provides direct care services within a 24-hour transitional residence program. Responsibilities include conducting security rounds, counseling clients, and assisting them in developing independent living skills.
Job Description
Job DetailsJob Location: TIL Two - Staten Island, NY 10303Position Type: Part TimeEducation Level: High School/GEDSalary Range: $18.50 - $18.50 HourlyJob Shift: DaySUMMARY:
The Youth Worker will be responsible for ensuring client safety, providing direct care services, and maintaining building safety during all shift hours at our 24-hour youth services, transitional residence program.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Engage and counsel clients staying in the Transitional Living Program.
Make security rounds of building and document all findings.
Provide client intervention and stabilization services.
Determine any immediate need and link clients to appropriate services.
Meal preparation/oversee kitchen use and supervise snack and meal periods/ supervise client clean up.
Assist clients in developing independent living skills through one-on-one and weekly independent living group sessions.
Make regular entries in staff communication log according to policy/procedure.
Ensure proper charting of all client information on a timely basis.
Participate in weekly supervision and all team meetings.
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:
High School Diploma or GED, some college preferred.
Fire Guard and/or Fire Safety Coordinator certification is required within three months of hire.
Experience working with homeless youth, MICA, and/or substance abuse populations needed. Ability to establish workload priorities and balance diverse projects needed.
Must have exceptional communication skills both orally and in writing regarding complex and sensitive issues or regulations.
QualificationsProject Hospitality follows the CDC and NYS recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Project Hospitality is now requiring all new hires to be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a qualified exemption. All new hires with a qualified exemption are required to provide a negative COVID-19 test result every 7 days (weekly).
Project Hospitality, a private not-for-profit organization based in Staten Island, New York, provides comprehensive services for hungry and homeless and inadequately housed people. As the only comprehensive homeless service provider in the borough of Staten Island, Project Hospitality serves more than 5,000 Staten Island residents each year.
Project Hospitality operates with more than 300 staff and a corps of more than 600 student, community, religious, and corporate volunteers.
It is the mission of Project Hospitality, Inc. to help community members who are hungry, homeless or otherwise in need in order to work with them to achieve their self-sufficiency, thereby enhancing the quality of life for our community.
Founded
1982
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Non-profit
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Staten Island, New York
Project Hospitality, a private not-for-profit organization based in Staten Island, New York, provides comprehensive services for hungry and homeless and inadequately housed people. As the only comprehensive homeless service provider in the borough of Staten Island, Project Hospitality serves more than 5,000 Staten Island residents each year.
Project Hospitality operates with more than 300 staff and a corps of more than 600 student, community, religious, and corporate volunteers.
It is the mission of Project Hospitality, Inc. to help community members who are hungry, homeless or otherwise in need in order to work with them to achieve their self-sufficiency, thereby enhancing the quality of life for our community.
Founded
1982
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Non-profit
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Staten Island, New York
