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About the Role
The Child Care Shift Supervisor has overall shift responsibility for providing a safe, therapeutic, and culturally sensitive environment for children in residential care. This position requires critical thinking skills, advanced child care skills, and the ability to assess stressful situations and respond appropriately.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and guidance to child care staff.
- Meet with staff on shift individually biweekly to provide feedback on job performance.
- Identify issues or concerns related to maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment and take corrective action.
- Provide assistance/guidance to other child care staff relative to the effective management of programs.
- Ensure that child care workers adhere to program routine and follow individual treatment plans, supervision plans, and crisis intervention plans.
- Ensure supervision of children in accordance with individual enhanced supervision plans, program protocol and agency policies.
- Participate in professional development trainings.
- Chair daily pre-shift meetings to set the plan for the day.
- Attend and participate in weekly staff meetings and biweekly supervision.
- Ensure the completion of all written documentation as defined by program and agency policy and procedure.
- Ensure that all program and agency policies and procedures are followed.
- Ensure medication is passed as outlined in agency policy.
- Ensure meals and snacks are prepared and served as scheduled.
- Successfully complete all required agency trainings.
- Ensure compliance with labor standards as related to staff breaks, and management of additional hours during shift.
- Coordinate intakes/referrals into program in accordance with program policy and procedure.
- Perform other related tasks and duties as assigned by supervisor.
Requirements
- Minimum high school or equivalency diploma required.
- Experience working with juvenile justice involved youth highly desirable.
- Sufficient maturity to work with and relate to youth required.
- Commitment to following and embracing the Seven Commitments of our Sanctuary Model.
- Ability to form positive relationships with youth.
- Ability to understand and respond to youth’s basic developmental needs.
- Ability to understand and follow agency policy and Trauma Informed Care orientation.
- Ability to role model and teach appropriate behavior to youth.
- Understanding of basic needs and developmental issues of youth.
- Asks age and developmentally appropriate questions and actively listens to youth's responses.
- Develops a warm, positive, nurturing relationship with each youth.
- Follows mandated reporting requirements regarding child abuse and neglect.
- Practices infection control, including appropriate hand washing procedures.
- Uses knowledge of developmental milestones, assists youth in participating at their individual level of interest and ability.
- Uses observation as a way to "get to know" youth — their interests and developmental levels.
- Interacts with youth during meal and snack times, promoting appropriate social behavior.
- Applies knowledge of youth development to plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and environments.
- Adapts activities and environments to meet the special needs and situations of individual youth.
- Identifies developmentally appropriate behavior and reasonable expectations for youth’s behavior.
- Demonstrates a high level of professionalism at all times.
- Demonstrates ability to provide leadership for staff.
- Demonstrates ability to critically think and respond appropriately to stressful situations.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Valid New York State Driver License.
Skills
- Critical thinking
- Advanced child care skills
- Leadership
- Feedback provision
- Problem identification and resolution
- Program management
- Treatment plan adherence
- Supervision
- Crisis intervention
- Medication management
- Documentation
- Policy adherence
- Training completion
- Labor standards compliance
- Intake coordination
- Referral coordination
- Relationship building
- Understanding of youth developmental needs
- Trauma Informed Care
- Behavioral role modeling
- Active listening
- Nurturing
- Mandated reporting
- Infection control
- Activity planning
- Environmental adaptation
- Professionalism
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
Location
- Champlin Ave - Utica, NY 13502
Work Type
- Full Time
- Evening Shift
Experience Level
- Occasional travel
Education Level
- Some higher education preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $21.76 - $21.76 Hourly
Benefits
- $1000 sign on bonus