Job Description

Job Details:

To mentor youth with the aim of providing support, guidance, positive interaction, exposure to positive activities, opportunities to learn life skills and positive problem-solving skills through a strength-based trauma informed approach.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Provide weekly mentoring sessions, implementing social and emotional learning, life skills, and peer-to-peer mentoring.
• Work as a team to help establish a trusting and dependable relationship that will lead youth on a positive path to success.
• Assist youth to further develop life skills such as self-confidence, self-esteem, academic excellence, and moral values.
• Enable and encourage positive decision-making, leading youth to take responsibility for their actions, to see their victims as people and to see value in themselves.
• Demonstrate good character, emotional stability, and a responsible adult lifestyle.

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Connect youth and families with needed and available community resources.
• Provide referrals to youth, parents, and agencies as appropriate.
• Maintain case note documentation and data collection.
• Provide all required documentation in a timely manner, which may include youth follow-up, outcome evaluations, and youth contact sheets.
• Maintain a heavy caseload.
• Adhere to agency policy, procedures, and the professional code of ethics.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Ability to work with at risk youth
• Ability to motivate others towards achieving goals
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of focus, task-oriented, nonjudgmental and a clear sense of boundaries.
• Ability to maintain respect for confidentiality involving both youth and fellow employees.
• Ability to work in a variety of settings with culturally diverse families and communities with the ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate.
• Ability to legally operate a motor vehicle and provide own transportation.

Qualifying Education and Experience:

• A High school diploma.
• A minimum of two years experience in a similar position working with at-risk youth.
• Possession of a valid Texas Operator's License, Class C.

Required Pre-Employment screenings:

• Criminal history check
• Drug, and alcohol testing
• Motor vehicle review (MVR)

City of Arlington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.