Job Description

Level: Entry
Job Location: Cedar Rapids - Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Position Type: Full-Time/Part-TimeEducation
Level: High School Diploma or GED
Salary Range: $16.00 - $18.00 Hourly

Travel Percentage: No Travel required
Job Shift: Varied ShiftsWALK-IN INTERVIEWS
IMMEDIATE OPENINGS!
YOUTH COUNSELORS FOR ALL SHIFTS!
Attend our OPEN INTERVIEWS to learn more about how you can help assure every child becomes a successful adult.
No appointment required!
When does this take place?
Each Tuesday of the Month
What Time?
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where do I go?
Four Oaks
5400 Kirkwood Blvd SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 5204
What you will do?
As a Youth Counselor you will provide direct care services and coverage to meet the needs of our clients. This includes but is not limited to ensuring safety & supervision, skill building, behavioral management and communications within the team.  Specific responsibilities include:
- Provide supervision and treatment intervention.
- Establish a therapeutic relationship with the client based on trust & respect.
- Evaluate the impact of behavioral, group treatment, and life-space interventions while providing direction & feedback.
- Serve as a positive role model and agent of change for the youth.
- Establish a therapeutic relationship with the client based on trust & respect.
- Provide supervision and treatment intervention.
- Safely transport youth to/from program activities and community resources while monitoring behaviors.
- Provide individualized reinforcement to client behavior to teach and reinforce adaptive behaviors.
- Utilize a proactive/preventive method of intercepting problems before they escalate.
- Assist clients in developing insight into their behaviors so that they learn to self-identify and self correct.

Qualifications & Program InformationWhat you need:
You will need to be at least 21 years of age and possess a High School Diploma or GED to qualify. Additional requirements include