Youth Service Worker Mornings
About The Position
Tanager is seeking a Youth Service Worker for its Inpatient Team. The role provides direct, client-centered, strengths-based, professional, and compassionate care to youth. The worker helps ensure the safety, supervision, and wellbeing of youth in care, plans and leads activities that promote growth, trust, and resilience, and builds therapeutic relationships based on respect, empathy, and consistency. The Mornings shift is typically 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., with some flexibility. The position is part-time and located at Tanager’s Main Campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Tanager serves children and families in Linn County through prevention, treatment, and outreach programs, and describes its mission as inspiring, empowering, and healing.
Requirements
- Must be at least 20 years old.
- One year of previous direct experience working with children, youth, or families in a professional setting, or meet the stated education alternative: an associate’s degree in psychology, counseling, social work, nursing, criminal justice, or a related human services field, or completion of two years of college coursework toward a bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- High school education level is listed in the job details.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct care services to youth on the Inpatient Team.
- Ensure the safety, supervision, and wellbeing of youth in care.
- Plan and lead activities that promote growth, trust, and resilience.
- Build therapeutic relationships rooted in respect, empathy, and consistency.
Benefits
- Part-time PTO policy
- Retirement plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Opportunities for advancement
- Weekly payroll
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
