Youth Worker

SUMMARY:
Responsible for ensuring client safety, providing direct care services and maintaining building safety during all shift hours at our 24-hour Transitional Youth Programs.

SHIFT:  Full time and Part Time shift are available

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engage and counsel clients
• Intake of new referrals
• Ensure site safety during the shift, making hourly rounds of the facility
• Provide crisis management services and report any issues to Program Director
• Make regular entries in the staff communication log and provide a summary after each shift
• Participate in weekly supervision and all team meetings
• REQUIREMENTS:
• High School Diploma/GED required with a Bachelors Degree preferred
• Fire Guard and/or Fire Safety Coordinator certification is required within three months of hire
• Experience working in a social service field
• Ability to establish workload priorities and balance diverse projects needed
• Must have exceptional communication skills both orally and in writing regarding complex and sensitive issues or regulations

We are the largest nonprofit on Staten Island, committed to serving the needs of hungry and homeless. We serve people with special needs - people living with HIV and AIDS, people using substances, people living with mental illness - with an array of on-site professional services. We offer a comprehensive continuum of compassionate care that begins with street outreach, shelter, and soup kitchen and food pantry, and extends to treatment, other clinical and support services, and transitional and permanent supportive housing. Visit our website for more information at www.Projecthospitality.org.