Youth Care Specialist (YCS) - The Pines

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• Reduced Cost Meals every shift on site (All)
• Employee assistance program (EAP) (All)
• Insurance coverage: Health, vision, dental, life, supplemental and pet insurance (FT)
• Flexible spending account (FSA) (FT)
• Generous Paid time off (PTO) (FT)
• 401k w/company match (FT)
• Tuition/Professional development assistance (FT)

• You have a passion for working with children and teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and complex mental health / behavioral needs ensuring the safety and well-being.
• You communicate effectively and efficiently, collaborating well with staff across departments and teams.
• You demonstrate strong written skills, including accurate documentation, progress notes, incident reports, and related administrative tasks.
• You actively invested in your own professional growth, pursuing both formal professional development and utilizing supervision on the job to continuously learn new skills and strategies to enhance student support.
• You have experience managing challenging behaviors, using effective de‑escalation strategies to prevent crises and adapt activities to meet programmatic needs.
• You demonstrate good judgement and level headedness in crisis and emergency situations.
• You understand the importance of and practice healthy personal and professional boundaries while working with children and adolescents in a treatment setting.
• You are personable, flexible, have a sound work ethic and value teamwork.
• You are detail-oriented, have good observational skills and follow-up well on tasks assigned to you.
• You are willing and able to complete TCIS training and maintain all required certifications.

• Manage and support the day-to-day direct care needs, operations and programs of students at The Pines, both in and outside of the classroom. 
• Develop and maintain trusting, respectful relationships with students, by understanding their unique interests, needs treatment goals to maintain a positive and cooperative treatment environment.   
• Complete administrative tasks, including but not limited to: assisting with move-in/move-out of students, shift logs, incident reports, intervention plans and progress tracking, and attend all required meetings/ trainings.  
• Proactively work with students to minimize and prevent crises; work to de-escalate crises when they occur and process/debrief crisis situations after they occur.
• Attend to and report all emergencies and/or other situations requiring immediate. attention in a timely manner to the appropriate staff member(s) in accordance with The Pines policies/procedures.   
• Facilitate on-campus and off-campus programming and community development based on the treatment goals of each student outlined by the student’s clinical treatment plan. 
• Support the clinical treatment plan goals for each student, collaborating with the Pines clinical and education team including documenting student effort and progress towards goals.   
• Support individual and group educational programming for students through classroom support. 
• Oversee and support student personal hygiene habits and bedroom cleanliness, proactively maintain a safe and clean environment.
• Provide emotional and behavioral support to students through professional relationship, role-modeling and DBT techniques.    

• High-School Diploma and relevant combination of post-secondary education and experience in residential, psychiatric, or special education academic settings required; bachelor’s degree preferred 
• At least 2-years minimum of relevant or related professional experience required 
• Previous experience working in special education and behavioral intervention strongly preferred 
• Experience working in a DBT or other therapeutic treatment setting preferred, but not required. 
• Due to the nature of work in supporting our students, all job description list the physical requirements for that position
• Our campus consists of some paved areas but primarily consists of grass, gravel paths and parking lots. Additionally, many areas of our building are fully accessible, however, as a historic building some areas are only accessible by stairs.
• You must be able to ambulate around the campus, including hills, stairs, grass and gravel.
• Student Facing Positions:
  • Must be able to react and move quickly during student crisis, both for the safety of the student and for the staff.
  • Must be able to run across the campus and throughout the school to catch/monitor an eloping student, and/or to remove yourself from an unsafe situation.
  • You must be able to pass TCIS (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools).
    • You must be able to bend, stretch, sit, stand, crouch or kneel for sustained periods of time if implementing a hold.
• Special Accommodations can be requested but will only be approved if the accommodation does not impact the ability to perform your position and it does not put yourself, a student, or any other staff member at risk of harm or injury.

• CPR
• First Aid
• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training for Schools (TCIS)
• Mandated Reporter Training

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