Social Services Aid

Summary

This position is located at the Great Plains Area Youth Regional Treatment Center. The incumbent will be required to work on any of the shifts to include day, evening, overnight, weekends, and holidays.

This position is being announced concurrently under Excepted Service/Merit Promotion procedures. Please review vacancy announcement number IHS-24-GP-12349417-ESEP/MP; for eligibility requirements. NOTE: Applicants must apply separately for each announcement in order to be considered.

Duties

• Creates lesson plans, curricula, and other cultural education groups for the residents through the use of videos, library books, and other types of resource materials relating to various Northern Plains Tribes.
• Assists with and maintains the daily schedule, including but not limited to: community activities, daily meditations, daily goal setting, support group meetings and all related activities, and assists residents with their discharge and aftercare planning.
• Manages the security of the residents through random bed checks and systematically records those bed checks.
• Assists with Control Station duties that include: answering the telephone, providing interior and exterior security checks, routine bed checks, bathroom and shower monitoring, and monitoring surveillance cameras, fire and control panels.

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