Two West Unit Co-Lead

Company: Universal Health Services, Inc.
Location: Mansfield
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

Responsibilities

The Unit Co-Lead will provide direct care, safety and security, and supervision of residents through positive role modeling and support to the staff in which they work. The Unit Co - Lead will assist the Unit Lead with a variety tasks and duties. The Unit Co - Lead works closely with our youth ensuring our residents are safe and programming successfully within our facility. This position allows you to utilize your own creativeness to support our youth on a daily basis. This position is full time and benefit eligible. The Unit Co-Lead actively works to support the facility mission of providing an environment of safety so that the residents feel empowered to heal the wounds of the past and build a foundation of hope for the future.
Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. An individual must be able to perform their duties in a positive work mode and serve as a positive role model and influence for clients and peers. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Education and/or Experience
    • High School Diploma or GED required and three (3) years experience working in a children's services program or residential setting is preferred. Associate's or bachelor's degree in human services, psychology or related field preferred. A combination of education and experience may be considered.
      • Certifications, Licenses, Registrations
        • o Valid State Drivers License with appropriate Endorsements
        • Certified in CPR and First Aid
          • Language Skills
            • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and policy/procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports, correspondence, and document client behavior. Ability to speak effectively before groups of clients or employees of organization.
              • Mathematical Skills
                • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
                  • Reasoning Ability
                    • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
                      • Physical Demands
                        • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distant, and peripheral vision, color and depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee may occasionally be required to physically restrain clients, using authorized restraint procedures as a last resort for protection of resident and staff.
                          • Therapeutic Hold
                          • • The employee may occasionally be required to physically restrain clients, using authorized hold procedures as a last resort for protection of resident and staff.
                              • Work Environment
                                • The work environment for this position is a residential facility setting. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be exposed to clients who may ask inappropriate personal questions, display socially unacceptable personal behaviors, use profanity and sexually explicit phrases, make insulting remarks or threats regarding appearance, age, sex, or race, and exhibit defiance, dishonesty, and assaultive or self- destructive behaviors. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, and may be subject to occasional local travel as required by facility needs. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

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