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St Labre Indian Catholic School
Address , Ashland, 59003, Mt
Employment type FULL_TIME
Salary $21.63 an hour
Expires 2023-07-19
Posted at 11 months ago
Job Description
St. Labre Indian Catholic School
Pretty Eagle Catholic Academy St. Charles Mission School

Job Title: Group Home House Parent
Department: Youth & Family Services
Reports To: Group Home Manager
FLSA Status: Nonexempt - 12 month position
Salary Grade: 6B ($16.24-$19.09-$21.63)/hour
Approved Date: 07/01/2022
SUMMARY
Provides youth with proper parental role-modeling while implementing a professional program that emphasizes skills and personal development. Provides youth with a safe and secure environment in which to grow and learn. Teaches youth social skills, self-help, academic skills, and independent living skills. Fosters the moral and spiritual development of youth. Administers the day-to-day operations of a large family residence by performing the following duties.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. * Indicates the non-essential duties and responsibilities. Nothing in this job description restricts St. Labre's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Teaches Youth
  • Observes and defines on-going behaviors of youth. Identifies what skills are present or lacking. Prioritizes target behaviors for each youth in order to emphasize maximum skill development.
  • Compliments and encourages youth in doing something well in order to build self-confidence and respect.
  • Describes appropriate skills or behaviors to youth. Provides rationales why a youth should or should not do certain things.
  • Practices appropriate skills with youth in order to increase learning and maintenance of skills. Role-plays with youth pertinent skills until he or she is comfortable using them.
  • Provides feedback to youth to ensure skill development.
  • Implements consequences for appropriate or inappropriate behaviors. Reward youth with praise and positive feedback for practicing and displaying appropriate behavior.
  • Monitors appropriateness of skills demonstrated by youth. Reassesses youth's target behaviors and measures progress.
  • Serves as role model for youth by exhibiting skills taught in program.

Teaches Youth Specific Skills
  • Teaches youth appropriate social skills such as following instructions, giving and accepting feedback, greeting and conversational skills, helping others, and proper manners. Teaches youth appropriate social conduct in public so that they are able to generalize their behavior to other settings and are successful in life.
  • Teaches youth self-care habits such as maintenance, personal hygiene, cooking, home safety, laundry and dress.
  • Teaches youth money management skills such as opening and using a checking account, budgeting, and savings.
  • Teaches youth employment skills such as job searches, setting up interviews and appointments, interviewing, adhering to work and attendance rules. Serves as a medium between the youth and his or her employer. Facilitates career decision making.
  • Teaches youth independent living skills such as obtaining a driver's license, comparative shopping, etc.

Provides for Moral/Spiritual Development
  • Attends and/or takes youth to religious services. Discuss with the youth the scriptures and sermon and how it is applicable to his or her everyday life.
  • Teaches youth appropriate religious behavior such as praying daily at meals, reverence in church, and leading a Christian-Judeo family life.
  • Sets up sacramental preparation and coordinated this through religious class.
  • Discusses with youth why it is important to obey social laws and to develop their own convictions based upon the needs of others.
  • Encourages youth involvement in religious activities in service as altar servers, readers, ushers, and religious service projects in the community.

Monitors Academic Development
  • Discusses school performance with youth including grades, credits earned, performance ratings and academic goals.
  • Monitors home study time. Assists youth with school assignments. Teaches and reinforces good study habits. Checks homework for thoroughness and quality of work.
  • Attends school conferences. Confers with teachers and other school personnel by oral and written communication (school notes regarding student's progress).
  • Provides youth rationales for performing well in school and completing his or her secondary education.
  • Assists youth in preparing for post-secondary or vocational education. Identifies alternatives and develops career plans.

Record Keeping
  • Maintains daily logbook entries.
  • Prepares Progress Reports and Discharge Summaries for Youth Group Home manager.
  • Prepares and submits Incident Reports by the next business day.
  • Maintains financial records for receipts of food, clothing, entertainment, allowances, supplies and other expenditures.
  • Maintains home filing system for daily schedules, menus, maintenance items, and appliance warranties.

Consumer Contacts/Communications
  • Consults with other Home staff about youth's behaviors and progress.
  • Answers telephone to obtain and/or provide information to consumers. Makes telephone calls to obtain and give information, schedule appointments and to coordinate activities.
  • Attends in-service workshops and training programs to improve knowledge and skill in implementing the Youth Group Home Program components.
  • May appear in juvenile court on behalf of the youth.
  • Maintains direct and frequent contact with school personnel (teacher, principals, counselors, and coaches) concerning youth's school performance.
  • Communicates with consultants on youth strategies.
  • Reads correspondence to keep abreast of policies, procedures, events, announcements, and student progress.

Provides Loving and Caring Environment
  • Assists youth through personal problems via the use of rational problem solving.
  • Provides constant emotional support by using praise, affection, and empathy.
  • Celebrates birthdays and holidays so that youth will see meaning in holidays. Makes youth feel special on their birthdays.
  • Provides a safe home life for troubled youth who are socially disadvantaged and would be neglected or abused in natural home. Provides family support system for youth.
  • Listens to youth's thoughts, feelings, concerns and problems to guide them and to improve relationships. Counsels youth on appropriate sexual behavior.
  • Educates and informs youth on issues relating to chemical dependency.

Monitors Youth's Behaviors and Well-Being

  • Monitors youth during home maintenance tasks. Checks youth's work for completion, thoroughness and timeliness. Checks on safety aspects of the house.
  • Plans individual and family fun activities that are entertaining and educational. Monitors off-campus activities to ensure appropriate social skills and appearance.
  • Constantly monitors and observes interactions of youth out of instructional control. Maintains emotional self-control during crisis and role models rational problem solving behaviors.
  • Attends to youth's medical/physical condition. Schedules appointments for doctors and dentists and transports youth to appointments. Cares for ill home bound youth. Transports youth in medical emergencies as necessary.

Budget Management
  • Purchases clothes, food, household supplies, and vehicle fuel for large household.
  • Prepares reimbursement statements by collecting receipts and accounting for money spent. Submits reimbursement statements.
  • Monitors budget to stay within guidelines.
  • Makes recommendations for purchase of capital items that will benefit household.
  • Manages budget for home maintenance and repairs.

Fosters a Team Environment
  • Attends staff training and workshops that will enable them to understand the job and implement the components of the model.
  • Provides a monthly schedule on a calendar so that the other staff can plan the work accordingly and bring up any concerns that might conflict with their schedule.
  • Participates in weekly meetings to discuss the youth, their goals, the home, and upcoming events to ensure coordination among staff members.
  • Accepts feedback and suggestions or questions from the other staff by letting them know they can bring up topics or concerns any time with the other staff.
  • Teaches and develops skills that staff will need in their job, through role-play practice and dissemination of information to aid them in their professional growth and ensure longevity of their job.
  • Gives feedback to, as well as receives feedback from, the coworkers in a rational way to strengthen team relationship, as well as develop positive change.

Transports Youth
1. Transports youth via a motorized vehicle on a daily basis to various activities and events to include school, shopping, movies, dances, family outings, and medical appointments. Transportation distance includes driving youth in Ashland, to Lame Deer, Crow, and Billings and on occasion, distances farther than Billings (round trip of 240 miles). On average, 50% of time is spent transporting youth in the summer and 75% during the school year.
WORK EXPECTATIONS
Youth Group Home staff rotate shifts to provide direct care and supervision of youth in placement 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Directly supervises 1 to 10 youth. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining youths; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, the staff must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Must be at least 21 years of age, high school diploma or general education degree (GED) required; and one to six months related child care experience and/or training preferred.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
  • Ability to give and accept feedback.
  • Skill at maintaining, acceptable tolerance levels while working under adverse conditions, such as constant interruptions, inappropriate behaviors, and receiving verbal and physical abuse.
  • Ability to exhibit emotional control, patience and persistence in extremely stressful situations.
  • Ability to make decisions using sound judgment with information at hand.
  • Commitment to working with disadvantaged and troubled youth.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to organize, prioritize, and implement work activities independently.
  • Ability to exhibit loving and caring behaviors.
  • Knowledge of and ability to teach self-care skills, independent living skills and academic skills.
  • Ability to teach moral and spiritual values to youth.
  • Ability to observe and specifically describe youth behaviors.
  • Ability to support and implement the Youth Group Home teaching methods.
  • Respects the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ in private, personal and public life.
  • Commitment to the mission of the Roman Catholic Church in Native American education.
  • Sensitivity to, and appreciation of Native American people and their cultures.
  • Ability to serve as an appropriate role model for youth in placement.

* Candidates are required to pass a thorough background verification procedure to determine appropriateness for duty, in order to satisfactorily and safely care for the youth. This includes finger printing.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Valid Montana driver's license required.
All new hires who work in the group home must provide documentation of the results of a tuberculin skin test done within the year prior to starting employment.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear to teach skills. Body movement or mobility to track behaviors of youth moving around the house including frequent use of stairs is needed. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Also, stamina to work eighteen-hour shifts and drive up to eight hours is a requirement. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and distance vision.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.