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About the Role
As a 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. 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.
- Support young people through their healing journey.
- Form positive relationships with children.
- Understand and respond to children's basic developmental needs.
- Understand and follow agency policy and Trauma Informed Care orientation.
- 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.
- Use knowledge of developmental milestones to 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.
- Apply knowledge of child development to 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.
- Role model and teach appropriate behavior to children.
- 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
- Understanding of basic needs and developmental issues of children
- Active listening
- Nurturing relationship development
- Mandated reporting
- Infection control
- Child development knowledge
- Observation skills
- Social behavior promotion
- Activity planning and implementation
- Adaptability
- Behavioral expectation setting
- Role modeling
- Professionalism
Location
- Champlin Ave - Utica, NY
Work Type
- Full Time
- Overnight Shift
- Includes Weekends
Experience Level
- Some higher education preferred
- Experience with children highly desirable
Education Level
- High school or equivalency diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $20.16 - $20.16 Hourly
Benefits
- $1000 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.