Residential Support Specialist PRN

Overview

About Upbring 

At Upbring, we are servants on a mission to break the cycle of child abuse. We are warriors, brave as the thousands of Texas Children and families we serve. We stand up for those who can’t speak for themselves. We are a family who values innovation, empathy, patience, understanding and trustworthiness.  

 

About New Life Residential Treatment Center

Many of the girls arrive at New Life after experiencing severe abuse or neglect. These courageous young women are between the ages of 11-17, and they begin to grow and heal through in-depth clinical therapy, personal development activities and spiritual care in a safe setting.

 

Girls stay an average of six to eight months and begin to feel a restored sense of hope in their futures – thanks to the support of New Life’s staff and therapists specializing in Trauma-Informed Care. Often during the healing process, girls discover special interests and talents and begin to live a healthy lifestyle. Many girls are either reunited with biological family or connected with a loving foster family after living at New Life.

 

What You'll Do

While maintaining a safe, supportive therapeutic environment, the Residential Support Specialist is responsible for supervising, teaching social skills, and meeting the individualized care plan and personal development needs of youth in accordance with Agency standards, state licensing standards, federal, state, and local regulatory requirements while following a designated routine as assigned.

Our Upbring staff members are servant-leaders in the pursuit of breaking the cycle of child abuse and empowering others to do the same through example while embodying our core values: We are Warriors. We are Servants. We are Family.

Responsibilities

We Are Warriors | We Set the Standards for Child Welfare

 

Work Standards 

• Maintain direct supervision, interaction, and observation of all youth in their living spaces or common areas; always remain aware of the location of all youth during the shift
• Interact, observe, and supervise youth in accordance with their individualized treatment and behavior support plans
• Ensure that all living spaces are clean, organized and maintain the youth’s living space to provide a safe, hygienic, and therapeutic environment
• Ensure safety, security and sanitation standards are always maintained in all work areas
• Prepare and attend supervision, unit, team, and facility meetings as required
• Strong time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines and complete tasks in a timely manner
• Work within the Agency’s Code of Ethics and establish working relationships within the ethical boundaries established
• Complete required training hours per licensing standards and program requirement
• Other duties and special projects as assigned

Communication

• Communicate with youth and team members in a strength-based manner
• Enter all assigned duties in a strength-based, concise and understandable manner, such as behavior sheets, observation notes, communication logs, shift reports personal restraint records, incident reports, etc. in the computer before the end of shift
• Ensure all necessary youth information is entered into the computer before the end of the shift
• Report and properly enter all incidents in a timely manner (prior to the end of the shift)

We Are Servants| We Help Others

 

Adaptability

• Set appropriate behavioral limits with youth in accordance with Agency policy and individualized treatment and behavior support plans
• Work in a manner that seeks to prevent crisis situations; proactively intervene to manage or de-escalate crisis situations; apply verbal redirection when deemed appropriate
• Maintain awareness of resident behavior and utilize the proper intervention and appropriate consequence in accordance with Agency policy and the resident’s individual treatment and behavior support plans; accurately enter the behavior and intervention
• Assist the Residential Support Specialist III with conducting searches for contraband in youth living space as needed
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with a diverse staff, youth population, including youth’s families and systems of support
• Ability to use good judgment, think and react rationally and calmly in difficult and stressful situations

Teamwork

• Teach and Provide youth with a full range of basic living skills, including, but not limited to bathing, feeding, cleaning, shopping