Roles & Responsibilities 

1. Participate in implementing student treatment plans, including but not limited to: a. Be knowledgeable of each student’s treatment issues, goals, and skills.
   • Develop a therapeutic relationship with students by being a positive, consistent, responsible, caring adult. 
   • Be an active listener.
   • Help students relate daily issues and their daily lives to treatment issues, goals, and skills.
   • Assist students with Stage or Phase System assignments
   • Exchange information through the Electronic Medical Record and through staff meetings regarding perceptions and ideas about students’ behaviors and progress.
   • Complete daily logs on student’s behavior. 
2. Supervise therapeutic, structured living environment including but not limited to; a. Supervise daily schedule i.e. mealtimes, free time, unit/packet work, quiet hour, bedtime, and activities (supervising includes getting kids involved, involving yourself, observing, maintaining physical and emotional safety, and when appropriate #1 above).
   • Perform daily checks on student’s rooms for cleanliness.
   • Help prepare meals
   • Serve as a viable role model for prosocial behavior.
   • Enforce program rules and provide consequences following appropriate procedures described in the staff handbook. 
3. Follow procedures for licensed child caring agencies, including but not limited to: writing critical incident reports within twenty-four (24) hours; keeping medication administration logs; storing medications properly; following proper kitchen clean-up and food storage procedures; conducting monthly emergency drills; maintaining the safety of students. See Staff Handbook for these and other procedures. 
4. Supervise the upkeep and maintenance of the programs physical plant. Insure cleanliness of living and eating areas; ensure that grounds are neat and seasonal yard work/snow removal are done; complete minor maintenance tasks as able and report others to the Director; assign and supervise student clean-up jobs (deep room clean, unit work and major clean-up). 
5. Assist in the classroom as directed by the teaching staff. 
6. Continue professional development. Participate in ongoing Supervision with Staff Development and Program Managers throughout each shift.. Attend monthly all-staff meetings, attend scheduled in-service training, Weekly meetings for Group Home full time staff and attend professional seminars as requested by the Director.
7. Required to be available for on-call juvenile holding facility schedule as needed. Includes additional compensation.
8. Assume other duties assigned by the management team.
9. Due to the nature of Red Top Meadows' location, one youth care staff member may be required to stay overnight to provide support should night staff need it. Youth care staff members will be provided with adequate sleeping quarters. If the youth care employee's sleep is interrupted to perform work duties, the time spent awake will be compensated according to State Law. If the sleep period is less than 5 hours due to work-related interruptions, the entire period counts as hours worked.