Highlights
Ideal Candidates must possess: • High School Diploma or GED required• Experience working with children or adolescents (preferred)• A strong belief in others ability to grow and change. Child Care workers supervise and provide support to Adolescent Females (12-22) diagnosed with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), while maintaining an environment that is secure, healthy, orderly and nurturing.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Dix Hills, New York |
| Industry | Nonprofit Charitable Organizations |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 1891 |
Description
SCHEDULE-SUN-THURSDAY,TUES-SATURDAY 3PM-11PM
SCO Family of Services is currently seeking Child Care Workers to join our team in our Madonna Heights, Residential Treatment Facility in Dix Hills! Child Care workers supervise and provide support to Adolescent Females (12-22) diagnosed with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), while maintaining an environment that is secure, healthy, orderly and nurturing.
As a Child Care Worker, you will:
- Assists with ADL routines including house jobs, room chores, wake-ups, and lights-out, laundry, cooking, etc.
- Supervises individual and group activities such as trips, sporting events, crafts, etc.
- Upholds all elements of behavior management system, including restriction system, negotiations, and a repertoire of confrontation techniques and responses.
- Attends to the educational/ vocational, health and mental health, etc.
- Models positive behavior at all times while confronting negative behavior.
- Commits to the mission of the program by supporting the creation of a safe, orderly, and caring environment.
Ideal Candidates must possess:• High School Diploma or GED required• Experience working with children or adolescents (preferred)• A strong belief in others ability to grow and change
Clean and Valid driver’s license
Benefits include:
Medical insurance, Vision and Dental (for FT staff), 100% agency paid life insurance, 403B retirement plan, generous PTO package, paid training, tuition reimbursement, discounts on phone services & more!!
SCO Family of Services is an equal employment opportunity employer.
About Company
In collaboration with others, the mission of Family Service is to provide quality programs and services, which effectively assist and strengthen individuals and families in our community.
Family Service provides more than 5,000,000 meals each year through a USDA food program in 85 Nebraska counties. This program feeds almost 21,000 children in more than 1,312 licensed home child-care facilities.
Family Service delivers the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program to 3,000 people in Lancaster County each month. Services include nutrition and breast feeding education as well as formula, milk and other staples.
Family Service cares for more than 1,700 children who take part in our child care and early childhood programs based in 20 Lincoln Public Schools.
Family Service counsels families and individuals with behavioral health sessions at 13 specific local schools.
Family Service partners with a variety of federal, state, local and non-profit agencies to make available a number of other innovative programs to assist Nebraska families.
Family Service Early Childhood and Youth Development programs granted over $694,000 in free and reduced rate scholarships to children during 2011-2012 school year.
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