Overnight Residential YTC

Job Summary and Purpose

At Tennyson Center for Children, our core values guide everything we do. We are Joyful, finding optimism and strength even in challenges; Curious, always learning and innovating to provide the best care; Dependable, building trust through reliability; Authentic, celebrating uniqueness and creating safe, inclusive spaces; and Compassionate, deeply caring for our teammates, our clients, and the community we serve. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to have you join our team and help us make a lasting impact on the lives of children across Colorado!

The Youth Treatment Counselor (YTC) is responsible for supporting a therapeutic residential program that fosters youth resilience, healing, informed by best practices, and a deep understanding of trauma informed care. This position will be responsible for the supervision and support of clients in the residential setting, as well as timely documentation of all incidents. A successful YTC must have a broad knowledge of best practice milieu skills and modalities for working with children with intellectual disabilities, neurodevelopmental delays, complex trauma, knowledge in child development, and of the relationship between trauma and neurobiology, and a critical thinking lens grounded in a trauma informed client centered philosophy.  

Essential Job Functions

• Assist clients in identifying and working toward self-directed treatment goals. 
• Collaborate with the internal and external treatment team on progress and barriers in therapeutic treatment goals for the clients home and community environments.
• Provide clean, safe, and therapeutic environments for the clients at all times.
• Engage clients in social emotional skill acquisition and practice.  
• Ensure positive behavior supports are being implemented on a milieu and in the community consistently to support and encourage clients from a strengths-based lens.

Other Job Functions

• Assist and support clients in getting ready for, and transitioning away from, school.
• Take clients into the community to provide age normative childhood experiences.
• Supervise and monitor clients during all wake and sleeping hours. 
• Utilize trauma informed therapeutic interventions for behavior management (both verbal and non-verbal) and physical managements as a last resort when imminent safety is at risk.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to lift 25/50 lbs. or more. 
• Must be able to assume and maintain a variety of postures such as kneeling, squatting, crawling, sitting, standing for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to perform or assist with physical interventions, either restraints or containments. 

Working Conditions

• Full time in person work required.
• Travel will utilize company vehicles to transport clients to community activities. 
• Most of the work will occur on our campus in the residential cottages as well as in the greater community. 
• Casual work attire. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Must be willing to contribute to a positive home environment for children and collaborative working relationships with TCC staff. 
• Must be willing to work evenings and weekends. 
• All candidates must have or qualify to obtain a current Colorado driver license. (Must obtain Colorado license within 30 days of employment.) 
• All positions require criminal CBI background check, FBI fingerprint check, State of CO child abuse check, DMV driving record check, pre-employment drug test, pre-employment physical, academic credential verification, and reference check. 
• Experience in a residential setting or with children with developmental disabilities preferred. 
• Motivation to obtain specialized training that would enhance your daily work and professional development preferred. 

Benefits 

For employees working 30 or more hours: 

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Options (United Healthcare for Medical and Guardian for Dental & Vision)
• Health Savings Account & FSA Options 
• Generous PTO + 13 paid holidays
• Paid Mental Health days to regroup and recharge!
• Retirement Plan with the Pension Fund: Tennyson will match up to 4% of annual salary.
• Voluntary Benefits through Guardian: Accident, Critical Illness, Disability, Hospital Indemnity 
• Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D with options to purchase additional coverage 
• Company paid Short Term Disability with options to purchase additional coverage 
• Employee Assistanc