Youth Guidance Specialist

Located within Gary E. Miller Canadian County Children’s Justice Center, Fort Reno Adolescent Center is a 12-bed residential substance abuse treatment program for adolescents who are between 13 and 17 years of age. This program is available to any youth in Canadian County who complete a drug and alcohol assessment and meet requirements for placement for the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s 3.5 level of care. The ASAM criteria will be explained further to you upon assessment.

The goal of Fort Reno Adolescent Center is to foster and strengthen support for each resident through weekly, in-person family visitation, private passes outside of facility with family or caregivers to spend quality time, weekly outing opportunities to learn healthy activities along with fieldtrips to local events and activities to allow all residents to stretch their legs and be a kid. Our open floor, 12 room program provides a supportive community style living space where residents are able to interact with each other throughout the day allowing your child and their peers to work through our program together, providing insight into each other’s daily struggles and successes with an emphasis on healthy boundary setting and creating a healthy and safe living environment.

Title of position: Youth Guidance Specialist

Description of essential duties and responsibilities:

• Supervises residents at all times, by keeping them in close proximity and in visual and auditory distance at all times.
• Supervise the chores of teach resident and ensures that the group home is properly maintained.
• Informs shift supervisor of any pertinent information of daily activities, health and well-being of each residents.
• Ensures that resident practice proper personal hygiene daily.
• Ensures that residents maintain their schedule.
• Develops a thorough understanding of all security and emergency procedures.
• Participates in shift change and ensures that all pertinent information is documented and reported.
• Follows all group home policies and procedures.
• Performs housekeeping duties in defined areas and ensures that the facility is clean at all times.
• Informs shift supervisor of any safety, security issues, and all maintenance problems.
• Completes incidents reports, daily logs, resident shift notations, and all program documentation that is applicable.
• Uses acquired knowledge to supervise and facilitation of recreation activities to achieve a desired outcome. Will become knowledgeable about recreation activities and how recreational activities are properly performed.
• Dresses appropriately for the position.
• Supports and promotes an environment for residents in need for substance abuse and co-occurring services that is recovery focused, welcoming, and attentive to the needs of consumers who may have experienced trauma in their lives.
• Attends scheduled staff meetings and training on regular basis.
• Assist with weekly audit of resident chart.
• Ensure all visitors coming into the facility are approved to visit or transport a resident.
• Responsible for maintaining strictest confidentiality guidelines for interactions regarding resident information.
• Performs other duties as directed
• Establish and maintains professional working relationships with supervisor and peers, while effectively working within a team setting cohesively.

Qualifications for position:

• Must be at least 21 years of age
• A high school diploma or its equivalent and two years of experiences working in a residential setting or a bachelor’s degree.
• Must pass all background checks, fingerprinting, drug and alcohol screening.

Supervisory relationships:

This position reports directly to the Assistant Shift Supervisor and Shift Supervisor

Skills and knowledge required:

The individual must have adequate visual and auditory skills to supervise residents, possess well-developed oral and written skills. Must be able to work in a crisis situation, remain calm, and be able to defuse the situation if situation arises.

Prior experience required:

See qualifications for position

Personal qualities:

Individuals should have sufficient interpersonal skills to work closely with both peers and residents.

Amount of travel and other special conditions or requirements:

Travel may be required in order to obtain job-relevant training.

Work Schedule:

Required 40-hour work week-flexible; must be willing to work all shifts and on short notice

This job classification has been designated as a safety sensitive job classification in accordance with the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act, 63 O.S., § 427.1 et seq., (OSCN 2019), effective August 29, 2019. This means employees in this job classification can be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination if they test positive for marijuana components or metabolites, even if they possess a medical marijuana license.