Bilingual Team Lead (Am) - 6:00Am - 2:00Pm - Seton Home

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Workdays: Sunday - Thursday

Works Hours: 6:00AM - 2:30PM

Location: 1115 Mission Rd., San Antonio, TX. 78210

Mission: Seton Home works to break the cycle of abuse and poverty by providing a caring home, education, and support services necessary to transform the lives of pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their children

Summary:

The Team Lead supports the role of the Shelter Supervisor and is authorized to take reasonable action necessary to carry out responsibilities assigned as long as such actions do not deviate from established organizational policies and are consistent with program guidelines and sound professional judgment. Manage Casa de Milagros Program staff and resources in the care of youth and their children placed at Seton Home. Implement and promote appropriate trauma informed behavioral limits within a safe and caring environment.

Position Responsibilities:

Supervisory Duties include but not limited to:

• *Responsible for leadership and daily supervision of staff.

• *Provide staff with verbal and written feedback as it relates to their job performance-positive feedback as well as corrective action, when necessary. Communicate staff performance with Supervisor, Assistant Program Director and Program Director.

• *Review schedules and assignments with staff and residents at least 24 hours in advance of activities.

• *Ensures completion of daily behavioral logs by assigned staff.

• *Conduct daily transition meetings.

• *Serves as the first point of contact in addressing concerns that arise while on shift.

• Assist with completing the shadowing process with new hires.

• Helps foster a positive team environment amongst staff.

• Communicate expectations to staff as it relates to our program and accomplishing program goals.

• Responsible for scheduling in a manner that meets licensing and ORR requirements and ensures the safety of our clients.

• Ensure staff knows, understands and complies with the Flores Settlement Agreement, Minimum Standards, contractor and funder requirements and any other placement requirements.

• Ensures staff knows, understands and implements Residential Child and Youth Care Professional premises; provides training of new staff and retraining of staff not utilizing the model correctly.

• Helps foster a positive team environment amongst staff.

Program Duties include but not limited to:

• *Lead staff efforts in teaching clients with program goals that currently include socialization, parenting, coping skills, academic, independent living, problem solving, personal hygiene, and acculturation to maximize parenting and life skill development and independent living.

• Provide crisis intervention to youth while maintaining emotional self-control.

• Counsel youth through personal problems using trust-based problem-solving techniques and maintain appropriate boundaries.

• *Observe, document and consult with both shelter and program staff on youth behaviors, parenting, and client progress.

• Attend multidisciplinary staffing meetings; alternate facilitation of those meetings as assigned.

Administrative Duties include but not limited to:

• Maintain the daily calendar up to date and ensure completion of designated appointments.

• Ensure completion of outcome measures requiring entry into Seton Home's data management system (KaleidaCare).

• Ensure completion of accurate and prompt incident reports as outlined in the Minimum Standards.

• Ensure daily room checks are completed; submit any maintenance tickets as needed.

• Assist Resource Coordinator with completion of inventory to ensure regular supplies for daily and long-term resident/cottage needs.

• Complete finance reports of Shelter expenses

• Supervises the use of shelter expenses for daily use and maintains and/or ensures accurate completion of financial records.

• Provide Executive Services Manager with information for maintenance reports.

• Ability to complete all documentation as required by licensing, contractors, and various funders.

Shift Specific Expectation & Responsibilities The Casa de Milagros Team Lead supervises and ensures completion of the following tasks, and other duties, by YCW's based on assigned shift.

Morning Routine

• *Supervise any residents unable to attend school, interact and engage in activities with residents and children.

• *Computer related tasks: Document daily logs and incident reports using the internal database, ensure important information is included.

• *Provide care and engage in age-appropriate activities for children unable to go to daycare.

• *Ensure cottages are clean, fully stocked and organized during shift.

• *Supervise and log all domestic and international calls for residents as needed.

• Facilitate physical activity and leisure activity as needed.

• Help wake residents and supervise morning routine.

• Supervise morning chores (spray cleaning products for residents) and room checks.

• Prepare and serve breakfast and assist residents during breakfast clean up.

• Process medications from pharmacy using the internal database.

• Dispense medications on weekends, holidays and as needed.

• Completing shelter intake process with new arrivals as needed.

• Completing shelter discharge process with residents as needed.

• Assisting with transporting residents to and from medical appointments, outings, etc. as needed.

• Assisting with the Point of Contact role as needed.

Competencies:

Communication

Resilience

Solution Oriented

Leadership

Performance Management

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education

• Minimum High School Diploma or Equivalent.

• Associate or bachelor's degree preferred.

• Experience

• Minimum of 1-year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.

• 2-years employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting preferred.

• License and Credentials

• Reliable transportation.

• Valid driver license.

• Valid vehicle insurance.

• Must provide immunization/shot records.

• Submit to a state and federal background check, Child abuse and neglect registry check, and Tuberculosis screening.

• Be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities.

Able to show proof of immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases transmitted by the respiratory route if working directly with unaccompanied children.

• Varicella: two doses of varicella vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR born in the United States before 1980 with a reported history of chickenpox (verified by an adult present at the time of illness) OR titers indicating varicella immunity OR documentation from healthcare provider verifying previous infection.

• MMR: two doses of MMR vaccine (at least 4 weeks apart) OR titers indicating immunity to all three diseases.

• DTaP or DTap: Complete primary vaccination series. If primary vaccination series completed in childhood, one DTaP dose in adulthood.

• Influenza: one dose annually during flu season.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills:

• Minimum of 1-year employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.

• 2-years employment experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting preferred.

• Working knowledge of TDFPS Minimum Standards, and Office of Refugee Resettlement- Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services National Care Standards.

• Some knowledge of computer software, familiarity with or ability to utilize KaleidaCare and MS Office (i.e. MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and OneDrive).

• Ability to set and teach trauma informed care practices.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Knowledge of human behavior and development preferred.

• Successful completion and implementation of SAMA.

• Possess sensitivity to the service population's cultural and socio-economic characteristics.

• Ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served in order to help them gain skills and confidence.

• Ability to work collaboratively with other staff members, service providers and professionals.

• Capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately in order to meet service goals.

• Demonstrate a commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.

• Demonstrate a conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.

• Ability to function independently and in a team setting.

• *Bilingual: Fluent in English/Spanish with regards to reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension of the spoken language

• Must pass a criminal background check.

Travel Requirements:

Travel requirements for the position includes 10% local and 10% overnight.

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, etc.) This is a Grant funded position and salary is dependent on funding availability. Position can be eliminated at any time because of lack of funding to support this position.

Seton Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view this and other employment opportunities please visit our website at www.setonhomesa.org. You must apply through our website and complete the application and upload your resume. No phone calls please. If you are chosen for an interview, you will be contacted.

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