Youth Development Counselor Southeast Youth
2 weeks ago
**THE POSITION**:
- Watch this video to see how you can make a difference
**DESCRIPTION OF WORK**:
As a Youth Development Counselor, you actively engage with court-adjudicated youth who require guidance, instruction, treatment, and specialized services in a secure or restricted setting. You develop, implement and monitor individual treatment program plans to include individual, group, and family counseling sessions. Also, you assess and counsel youth about their thought processes, actions ,and personal problems to provide insight into responsible behaviors and attitudes. When appropriate, you address crisis situations to maintain order by verbally and physically intervening with disruptive, emotionally improper, and suicidal youth. You will be properly trained on how to use appropriate physical restraint techniques to prevent escapes, control aggressiveness, and to maintain a safe and secure environment is required. In addition, you provide guidance in social and emotional growth by role modeling values and ideals that elicit a genuine desire in court-adjudicated youth to change behaviors.
Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding the duties of this position may be found in the position description.
**Work Schedule and Additional Information**:
- Full-time employment, 40-hour work week
- Work hours are Shift work in a 24/7/365 operation, including holidays and weekends, 8-hour shifts, with no duty-free lunch. Work weeks are 5 days on and 2 days off normally consisting of:
- 1st shift: 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM and
- 2nd shift: 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- May change based on operational needs.
- The Department of Human Services provides excellent benefits, pay increases, paid leave and holidays, as well as opportunities for career advancement.
- Travel: As needed
- Overtime: As needed - voluntary and possible mandatory
- Must be willing to accept employment at South East Secure Treatment Unit and commute to this location in Montgomery County.
- FREE PARKING
**REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, TRAINING & ELIGIBILITY**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Minimum Experience and Training Requirements**:
- Five years of experience as a Youth Development Aide;_ _**or**:
- Four years of experience as a Youth Development Aide Supervisor;_ _**or**:
- One year of experience in the care, custody, supervision, activities, leadership or personal guidance of delinquent, pre-delinquent or socially maladjusted youth in an organized program, and a bachelor’s degree in the behavioral sciences, special education, juvenile delinquency, or criminal justice;_ _**or**:
- An equivalent combination of experience and training which included one year of experience in the care, custody, supervision, activities, leadership or personal guidance of delinquent, pre-delinquent or socially maladjusted youth in an organized program_._
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**Other Requirements**:
- PA residency requirement is currently **waived** for this title.
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
**Legal Requirements**:
- A conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination and a drug screening.
- This position falls under the provisions of the Child Protective Services Law.
- Under the Law, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports including, but not limited to, PA State Police clearance, PA Child Abuse history clearance, and FBI Fingerprint clearance.
**How to Apply**:
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**EXAMINATION INFORMATION**:
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- You must provide complete and accurate information or:
- your score may be lower than deserved.
- you may be disqualified.
- You may only apply/test **once** for this posting.
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**Health & Wellness**
We offer multiple health plans so our employees can choose what works best for themselves and their families. Our comprehensive benefits package includes health coverage, vision, dental, and wellness programs.*
**Compensation & Financial Planning**
We invest in our employees by providing competitive wages and encouraging financial wellness by offering multiple ways to save money and ensure peace of mind including multiple retirement and investment plan options.
**Work/Life Balance**
We know there’s more to life than just work Our generous paid leave benefits include paid vacation, paid sick leave, eight weeks of paid parental leave, military leave, and paid time off for most major U.S. holidays, as well as flexible work schedules and work-from-home opportunities.*
**Values and Culture**
We believe in the work we do and provide continual opportunities for our
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