Youth Services Worker

About This Role

The Youth Services Worker provides treatment services and ensures the safety and security of youth in the Missouri Division of Youth Services. This role involves creating a safe, therapeutic, and educational environment in day treatment and residential programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide Awareness Supervision to youth, monitoring personal conduct, care, and therapy.
• Monitor activity, behavior, and movement of youth within facilities and off-grounds, performing physical counts.
• Maintain security, including intervention and physical restraints during emergencies or altercations.
• Supervise youth in work, recreational, and religious activities; conduct inspections for health and safety hazards.
• Assist youth with personal issues, refer issues to the group, and observe and report significant behavioral conditions.
• Implement group and individual treatment plans.
• Maintain professional boundaries and interact positively with youth, families, co-workers, and the public.
• Prepare reports regarding client adjustment and progress, and maintain youth records.
• Dispense medications to youth and perform first-aid interventions including CPR during medical emergencies.
• Transport and escort youth in everyday and emergency situations.
• Work assigned shifts (evening, overnight, daytime) and attend mandatory meetings, responding to facility emergencies.
• Assist in educational programs.

Requirements

• Ability to work with youth and family members
• Ability to physically respond appropriately to work situations or emergencies
• Ability to learn verbal and physical crisis intervention/de-escalation techniques and emergency treatment procedures
• Ability to transport youth and travel as necessary

Qualifications

• Sixty or more earned credit hours from an accredited college or university with a minimum of six earned credit hours in Counseling, Criminal Justice, Education, Psychology, Sociology, or Social Work.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience, or sixty earned credit hours from an accredited college or university which may substitute for experience.

Benefits