Child Care Worker-CTTP
About The Position
The Child Care Worker supports children and teens who have experienced significant trauma in a residential setting. The role provides structure, safety, and security as young people navigate daily life, and contributes to their healing journey. The House of the Good Shepherd provides individualized, compassionate care to youth and families through residential, educational, community, and foster care programs across Central New York, the Mohawk Valley, and the North Country. Its care is guided by empathy, resilience, and the Sanctuary Model. The position is full-time, based at Champlin Ave in Utica, New York, with an evening shift from 3–11 p.m. and work that includes weekends. Occasional travel is indicated. The listed salary is $20.16 per hour, and the posting offers a $1,000 sign-on bonus.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalency diploma.
- Sufficient maturity to work with and relate to children.
- Ability to form positive relationships with children.
- Ability to understand and respond to children’s basic developmental needs.
- Ability to understand and follow agency policy and Trauma Informed Care orientation.
- Understanding of children’s basic needs and developmental issues in a way that promotes growth and respects individuality.
- Ability to ask age- and developmentally appropriate questions and actively listen to children.
- Ability to follow mandated reporting requirements regarding child abuse and neglect.
- Ability to practice infection control, including appropriate handwashing procedures.
- Knowledge of developmental milestones and child development.
- Ability to plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and environments, and adapt them for individual children.
- Ability to identify developmentally appropriate behavior and reasonable expectations.
- Ability to use observation to understand children’s interests and developmental levels.
- Ability to role model and teach appropriate behavior.
- Ability to demonstrate professionalism.
- Valid New York State driver’s license.
Nice To Haves
- Some higher education.
- Experience with children.
Responsibilities
- Build positive, warm, and nurturing relationships with children.
- Help children feel structure, safety, and security in a residential setting.
- Understand and respond to children’s basic developmental needs while respecting individual differences.
- Ask age- and developmentally appropriate questions and actively listen to children’s responses.
- Follow agency policies and Trauma Informed Care orientation.
- Follow mandated reporting requirements regarding child abuse and neglect.
- Practice infection control, including appropriate handwashing procedures.
- Use knowledge of developmental milestones to help children participate at their individual levels of interest and ability.
- Interact with children during meals and snacks to promote appropriate social behavior.
- Plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and environments.
- Adapt activities and environments to meet individual children’s special needs and situations.
- Identify developmentally appropriate behavior and set reasonable expectations for children’s behavior.
- Observe children to learn about their interests and developmental levels.
- Model and teach appropriate behavior.
- Demonstrate professionalism at all times.
- Follow and embrace the Seven Commitments of the Sanctuary Model.
Benefits
- $1,000 sign-on bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
