Schedule: Monday – Thursday 9:00am – 6:00pm, Flex Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Pay Range: $22.00 – $24.00 Hourly
Number of Vacancies: 1
JOB SUMMARY:
Responsible for providing services to meet the resident educational, mental health, and medical needs. Responsible for the case management and communication with county social workers regarding residents’ progress. Responsible for providing a healthy, therapeutic, and safe environment for residents and their children through direct care. Responsible to work with county social workers and probation officers to successfully transition residents into lower level of care.
*The STRTP Program offers both a Sign-On Incentive AND a Retention Incentive range between $750-$1500 based on annual salary/pay.*
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:
- Develops, creates, and implements goals and objectives of residents documented on the Needs and Services Plan.
- Documents resident’s progress on Needs and Services Plan
- Develop a self-sufficiency plan with each resident that describes objectives, action steps, timeframes, and supportive services necessary to achieve the objectives.
- Assist residents with the implementation of the self-sufficiency plan by meeting formally once a week with each resident in their home and informally as often as necessary.
- Continuously assess residents to identify changing needs and modify their self-sufficiency planand staff interventions as necessary and plan for discharge concurrently.
- Appropriately document the resident’s activities and program participation
- Actively participate in weekly team meetings.
- Active participant in resident’s Child and Family Team meetings.
- Coordinates and manages information provided by other school professionals
- Provides supervision, protection, and care of students individually and in groups at all times.
- Provides assistance to each student in working with a group and in handling individual problems.
- Administer discipline and setting of limits for behavior.
- Documents residents progress; identifies possible need for professional services; communicates such findings to professional education staff.
- Assist intake coordinator with intake responsibilities including screening telephone referrals, reviewing intake packets, arranging and conducting pre-placement visits and interviews, determining admission decisions, and completing all necessary admission paperwork if needed.
- Orient new intakes to the program, including completing documentation.
- Provide Intensive Care Coordination and Intensive Home Based Services to residents placed in STRTP.
- Document client services in accordance with DMH standards.
- Maintain weekly service provision requirements.
SECONDARY JOB DUTIES:
- Participate in mandatory trainings, in-service, and meetings.
- Participate in the Continuous and Quality Improvement (CQI) of the agency.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, or related field
- Must possess and maintain a valid California Driver’s License and a driving record acceptable tothe agency’s insurance carrier.
- Physical ability to perform Pro-ACT, administer first aid/CPR and operate an agency motorvehicle.
- One year similar experience.
- Must be bilingual.
- Ability to receive and implement constructive feedback.
- St. Anne’s values the dignity and worth of every person we serve. Employees are expected to support children’s emotional and social development by encouraging understanding of others and promoting positive self-concepts. All employees must have the ability to treat those served by our agency in a caring and respectful manner, mindful of individual differences and cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity.
- As providers of social services, St. Anne’s employees work with clients dealing with comple xemotional and mental health issues, many of whom are facing significant personal crises on a daily basis. Employees must remain aware of any personal emotions, transference, and/or countertransference that may hinder the ability to remain professional. As such, employees are expected to maintain composure during all interactions and crisis situations, implement a self-care plan, and utilize crisis communication to deescalate client crisis and prevent any serious bodily injury or harm.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and talk or hear. The employee is often required to stand and sit; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Employee may occasionally be required to drive a motor vehicle.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
HOW TO APPLY
Internal Candidates (who have been in their current position for at least six months) may submit a Transfer Request Form to Human Resources.
Standard Mail
St. Anne’s Family Services – Human Resources
155 N. Occidental Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Fax: (213) 385-1533
Via email: resume@stannes.org
You may send your resume as a part of the body of your e-mail or attach it as a Microsoft Word document or PDF file.
Once a resume or application is submitted to St. Anne’s it is screened and processed. PLEASE DO NOT CALL to inquire about the status of your resume. If you are deemed a good fit for any of our current openings, we will contact you for an interview.
Please note, St. Anne’s conducts a physical, including tuberculosis and drug screen; fingerprinting and background check which includes Child Abuse Index, FBI and Department of Justice, as well as reference checks.
Thank you for your interest in St. Anne’s!