Child Care Worker
SCO Family of Services
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Jamaica, NY
Contract type: Full time
Job Details
Description
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Description
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists with developing independent living skills, such as budgeting, shopping, laundry, and traveling as well as encouraging independence in basic Activities of Daily Living skills such as personal hygiene.
- Promotes and fosters independent functioning, mature peer relationships, and responsible decision-making.
- Assists in house meetings twice a week to ensure that all items are covered, including menu planning, chore assignment, problem solving peer disputes and recreational planning.
- Provides immediate intervention to defuse potentially volatile situations that may arise between residents.
- Assists residents in keeping their scheduled appointments.
- Assists residents in menu planning, shopping, and cooking.
- Participates in admission and orientation of new residents.
- Co-facilitates groups with other staff on independent living skills for residents of the SRO and the Outreach Service Center.
- Completes all required documentation daily.
- Communicates important information to Program Manager and briefs the staff for the next shift.
- Supervise residents as they self-administer medication and keep medication record.
- The overnight staff must be awake and alert throughout the shift.
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