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About the Role

As a Relief Child Care Worker, you’ll be a steady presence for children and teens who have experienced significant trauma. In this role, you’ll help create a sense of structure, safety, and security as they navigate daily life in a residential setting. The work can be challenging, but your support will be a key part of a young person’s healing journey.

Responsibilities

• Help create a sense of structure, safety, and security for children and teens.
• Provide support as part of a young person’s healing journey.
• Form positive relationships with children.
• Understand and respond to children's basic developmental needs.
• Follow agency policy and Trauma Informed Care orientation.
• Role model and teach appropriate behavior to children.
• Ask age and developmentally appropriate questions and actively listen to children’s responses.
• Develop a warm, positive, nurturing relationship with each child.
• Follow mandated reporting requirements regarding child abuse and neglect.
• Practice infection control, including appropriate hand washing procedures.
• Assist children in participating at their individual level of interest and ability.
• Use observation to understand children’s interests and developmental levels.
• Interact with children during meal and snack times, promoting appropriate social behavior.
• Plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and environments.
• Adapt activities and environments to meet the special needs and situations of individual children.
• Identify developmentally appropriate behavior and reasonable expectations for children’s behavior.
• Demonstrate a high level of professionalism at all times.

Requirements

• Minimum high school or equivalency diploma required.
• Sufficient maturity to work with and relate to children required.
• Commitment to following and embracing the Seven Commitments of our Sanctuary Model.
• Valid New York State driver’s license.

Skills

• Youth development
• Responsive care
• Teamwork
• Dependability
• Compassion
• Eagerness to learn
• Ability to form positive relationships with children
• Ability to understand and respond to children's basic developmental needs
• Ability to understand and follow agency policy and Trauma Informed Care orientation
• Ability for role model and teach appropriate behavior to children
• Understanding of basic needs and developmental issues of children
• Active listening
• Nurturing relationship building
• Infection control
• Child development knowledge
• Professionalism

Location

• Champlin Ave - Utica, NY 13502

Work Type

• Full Time
• Overnight

Experience Level

• Experience with children highly desirable

Education Level

• Minimum high school or equivalency diploma
• Some higher education preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $20.95 - $20.95 Hourly
• $1,000 sign on bonus

About the Company

• The House of the Good Shepherd (HGS) has been changing children’s lives for over 150 years.
• We provide individualized, compassionate care to youth and families through a range of residential, educational, community, and foster care programs across Central New York, the Mohawk Valley, and the North Country.
• Our agency is built on a foundation of empathy, resilience, and the Sanctuary Model of care, which guides our commitment to healing and hope.