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Youth Support Specialist
2 months ago
Are you interested in contributing to a non-profit organization that significantly influences the lives of children and families? Become part of a dedicated team of mental health professionals and counselors committed to fostering kindness, respect, and encouragement for youth to thrive.
Elk Hill has been recognized as a 2024 Top Workplace USA, based solely on employee feedback, showcasing the positive culture at every level of our organization.
If you aspire to be part of a Top Workplace USA organization where your decisions can positively affect youth and families in Central Virginia, Elk Hill Farm, Inc. is the right choice for you.
Our organization:
- Is honored as a 2024 Top Workplace USA
- Has received the Top Workplace Meaningfulness Award
- Employs talented and dedicated individuals
- Advocates for mental health awareness
- Provides competitive benefits, salaries, and pet insurance for full-time employees
- Offers a generous time-off and holiday package
- Includes a 401(k) plan with a 5% employer match for full-time staff
- Provides tuition assistance
- Elk Hill proudly celebrates over 50 years of supporting youth and families throughout Virginia, emphasizing stability, adaptability, and longevity.
Key Responsibilities of a Youth Support Specialist:
Act as a positive role model for youth, delivering support, coaching, training, and supervision within a nurturing and constructive relationship. This role involves direct engagement with the GREAT (Gang Resistance Education and Training) program, an evidence-based initiative aimed at preventing gang involvement and youth violence through school-based curricula led by law enforcement officers.
Core Duties Include:
- Assisting youth in developing interpersonal, communication, social, and problem-solving skills, alongside age-appropriate behaviors and constructive leisure activities.
- Organizing and supervising recreational and social events based on collaboratively established goals with youth, parents, and the placing agency.
- Exhibiting sensitivity to the needs of youth, demonstrating flexibility, a non-threatening demeanor, respect for autonomy, confidentiality, socio-cultural values, personal aspirations, lifestyle choices, and family dynamics, while maintaining professional boundaries and ethics.
- Providing the contracted number of hours per month/week as stipulated by the placing agency.
- Completing session progress notes for each meeting and submitting them to the supervisor as required.
- Participating in FAPT, treatment team, or family engagement meetings upon supervisor's request.
- Maintaining current certifications in CPR and First Aid.
- Ensuring a driving record that meets Elk Hill's standards.
- Holding liability coverage at the level required by Elk Hill on a personal auto insurance policy.
- Engaging in face-to-face supervision with the supervisor at least once a month.
- Collaborating with all Elk Hill staff to enhance the overall quality of the organization.
Qualifications:
- Ability to work independently without direct supervision.
- Experience working with children and/or adolescents.
- Willingness to travel and work during non-traditional hours.
- Exhibit consistent personal integrity in interactions with youth, families, colleagues, and agency personnel.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are central to Elk Hill's mission, promoting respectful communication and collaboration among all individuals. Elk Hill does not discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or any other non-merit factor.
Note: Elk Hill reserves the right to modify or reassign job duties or combine positions at any time.
