Youth Services Worker

State of Iowa•Eldora - 50627 - Hardin County, IA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Division of State-Operated Specialty Care, Bureau of State Training School (STS) is seeking a Youth Services Worker (YSW) to join our team! This is a full-time opportunity with a 10-hour shift/4 days per week typically consisting of evenings and weekends. In addition to the base pay, there is an available shift differential of $0.90 per hour for second shift and $1.00 per hour for third shift. We also offer opportunity for advancement, growth, and development. YSWs assist with the daily activities of students and maintaining order in their living units. These positions provide leadership and structure through regular interaction, guidance, and monitoring and portray good role modeling skills in language, behavior, and attitude. YSWs work with students during recreation and leisure time activities, teaching sportsmanship, fairness, decision-making, and emotional control. These positions escort students to programs on campus, communicate effectively to facilitate and participate in various aspects of treatment programs, and provide transportation for students if needed. YSWs help create a safe environment using visual observation, hearing, and effective awareness skills and ensure that students receive emergency medical assistance when needed. Staff in this position will perform physical control and restraint of students using trained techniques and methods, assist in searches for missing students, monitor contraband, document headcounts, report security lapses or breakdowns, and perform other actions as needed for the safety of students and staff. Applicants will be required to complete a background check to be considered for this position. STS offers a holistic social, behavioral, psychiatric, academic, and vocational program that utilizes evidence-based practices to provide a secure setting, rooted in treatment, for males ages 12 to 18 years old who have been adjudicated delinquent. STS provides individualized treatment plans and offers comprehensive education with the goal of successfully transitioning young men back into the community. If you enjoy rewarding yet challenging work and helping young men find stability in their lives and security in their future, this is this the right job for you. Your work at STS has the potential to help pull these young men together and change their futures.

Requirements

Graduation from high school or G.E.D.; OR experience equal to two years of full-time work in a youth service program working directly in the treatment of adjudicated, at risk, or other youths needing service or assistance.
Applicants will be required to complete a background check to be considered for this position.
Designated positions in this job class require applicants and/or incumbents to possess a valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

Assist with the daily activities of students and maintaining order in their living units.
Provide leadership and structure through regular interaction, guidance, and monitoring.
Portray good role modeling skills in language, behavior, and attitude.
Work with students during recreation and leisure time activities, teaching sportsmanship, fairness, decision-making, and emotional control.
Escort students to programs on campus.
Communicate effectively to facilitate and participate in various aspects of treatment programs.
Provide transportation for students if needed.
Help create a safe environment using visual observation, hearing, and effective awareness skills.
Ensure that students receive emergency medical assistance when needed.
Perform physical control and restraint of students using trained techniques and methods.
Assist in searches for missing students.
Monitor contraband.
Document headcounts.
Report security lapses or breakdowns.
Perform other actions as needed for the safety of students and staff.