Residential Coordinator
About the Job:
The Gladney Center for Adoption provides a safe and nurturing environment for teenage girls who come from hard places and have experienced profound trauma. As a Residential Coordinator, you will be a valued member of the team with the passion to work with these young women to provide them a nurturing environment with structure and learning while they navigate their daily schedules and responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provides a safe and nurturing learning environment for teenage girls.
• Assists youth with treatment goals, homework, self-regulation, hygiene plans.
• Facilitates daily schedules, meets time commitments and completion of daily tasks.
• Supports creation of nutritious menu’s, grocery shopping and supervision of preparing healthy meals and snacks under direction of the program coordinator.
• Models and teaches healthy connections with teens, self-management and coping skills, and safety through dependability and making good choices.
• Facilitates engaging interactions and recreational activities, outings, and social engagement.
• Transports youth to and from school, appointments, extracurricular activities, and outings.
• Complies with 24-hour awake supervision requirement.
• Dispenses medication and maintains accurate medication logs.
• Maintains residents, keeping facility clean and reports maintenance needs.
• Thoroughly documents shift experience and communicates needs of youth with supervisor and with other shifts based on licensing standards and Gladney policies.
• Maintains a trauma- informed lens when working with youth in all aspects of the assigned duties.
• Upholds a regulated and controlled communication and interaction with youth at all times.
Minimum Qualifications/Requirements:
• High school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor’s degree in human services field, preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel; Microsoft Teams
• Valid/current driver’s license. Must be able to drive at night.
• Physically able to use authorized crisis Intervention techniques, cook, clean, participate in programming activities, and carry and/or lift 25lbs.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention), SAMA, and Crisis Intervention techniques, preferred.
• Skilled in trauma- informed-care and meeting the complex needs of vulnerable children and youth.
• Experience working with adolescents and/or at-risk youth, preferably in a residential setting.
• Willing to work holidays, during inclement weather, and additional shifts as needed.
• Strong time management, responsive, accurate and team-oriented.
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills.
• High standards of confidentiality, trustworthiness, discretion and professionalism.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
