Youth Counselor - All CR Programs

## Cedar Rapids-YC-SMITH CENTER

**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, processing & support, behavioral management and communications within the team. Specific responsibilities include:

• Providing consistent, individualized reinforcement to client behavior, using daily issues to teach and reinforce adaptive behaviors.
• Utilizing a proactive/preventive method of intercepting problems to neutralize them before they escalate.
• Utilizing identified behavior management techniques and de-escalation training to assist clients in developing appropriate behaviors.
• Assisting clients in developing insight into their behaviors so that they learn to self-identify and self correct.
• Know the population and is aware of individualized treatment plan.
• Provide supervision and treatment intervention.
• Establish a therapeutic relationship with the client based on trust & respect.
• Evaluating the impact of behavioral, group treatment, and life-space interventions while providing direction & feedback.
• Safely transporting youth to/from program activities and community resources while monitoring behaviors.
• Effectively participating in team to review case progress and provide best programming.
• Following medication management guidelines.
• Serving a positive role model and agent of change for the youth.
• Completing documentation of services in a timely manner – including daily case notes, behavior management, visual checks, etc.

## Qualifications & Program Information

**What you need:**

You will need to be at least 21 years of age and possess a High School Diploma or GED to qualify. A Bachelor's Degree in a Human Services related field of study is preferred. Additional requirements include:

• Desire to help kids succeed
• Prior experience working with children in a school or mental health setting preferred
• Strong communication and problem solving abilities
• Basic computer skills in a MS Office environment

***Apply now for immediate consideration!***