Job Description

Job Details: Level: Management,

Job Location: YMCA Safe Place Services - Louisville, KY 40217,

Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: High School,

Salary Range: $16.00 - $19.00 Hourly,

Job Shift: Any,

Job Category: Social Services, GENERAL FUNCTION

This position oversees the daily programming and youth work staffing of the emergency shelter program for at risk youth. Senior Youth Worker will provide a hands-on administration and supervision of a residential service staff of 20-25 who provide residential support and direct care services to approximately 500 youth per year (20 youth max at one time) who are placed in emergency shelter care by self, parents or guardians, or child welfare agencies. Senior Youth Worker reports directly to Residential Services Director and will work cooperatively with the staff leadership team (Executive Director, Property & Operations Director, Financial Development Director, Y-NOW Director & Outreach Director) to plan, coordinate and supervise daily shelter programming which complies with state licensing regulations and federal grant requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Orients and trains new Youth Work staff.
• Supervise 20-25 direct care staff through ongoing training, consultation and feedback.
• Assists with the development and delivery of Youth Worker staff development plans and evaluations.
• Produces personnel schedules for Youth Work staff.
• Develops daily program schedule and coordination of all shelter services, including program activities, community service projects, and special events.
• Creates and supports a Trauma Informed environment, supportive of individual needs.
• Along with other Senior Youth Worker, develops Life Skills training program for youth. Maintains compliance records for the program.
• Along with other Senior Youth Worker, co-develops annual training for youth workers and volunteers, including orientation of the agency and monthly staff meetings.
• Participates in weekly case reviews, serving as the milieu representative for the Shelter.
• Oversees and ensures the daily cleanliness of the shelter.
• At the direction and approval of management, monitors and approves purchases made for the Shelter program in areas of youth activities, hygiene supplies, Life Skill supplies and office supplies.
• Oversees medication distribution for youth participating in Shelter program.
• Oversees implementation of direct service policy and procedures for Residential Services, and recommends policy and procedure revisions to Residential Services Director.
• At the direction of management, assists with preparation of monthly billing, statistical reporting, grant or funding proposals for both new and existing programs.
• Serves as gatekeeper for intakes and discharges in absence of Case Management staff.
• Shares on-call responsibilities for Shelter staffing.

Qualifications: EDUCATION

• Bachelors Degree or 2 years of college and 2 years of experience of working with youth or 5 years of working with youth.
• Experience can be substituted for education

MINIMUM JOB EXPERIENCE

The person in this position must possess highly developed at-risk youth programming skills, managerial and supervisory skills. The incumbent’s duties require substantial knowledge of and experience in working with alienated youth, family systems, staff development and organizational growth and change.

• Four years experience working in youth programming serving at risk youth and families.
• One year supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Must demonstrate understanding of:
• adolescent development and its characteristic behaviors and issues;
• family and group processes and dynamics;
• needs and concerns of youth and adults from various ethnic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.

The YMCA of Greater Louisville is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.