Campus Crisis Intervention - Lead

Salary: $18 per hour

Classification: Part- Time

Shift: Friday - Sunday, 3p -11p

Summary

This employee is responsible for the safety and security of agency personnel, children, guests, and property; for providing crisis prevention and intervention management; for assisting other agency personnel in carrying out their duties; And for enforcing agency policies and procedures.

This position demonstrates a commitment to the mission, vision, and values of the agency by engaging in respectful, cooperative relationships with customers (i.e., clients, employees, and external stakeholders); accountable for providing services and ensuring safety to clients while empowering clients in achieving the agency’s mission.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide quarterly training to the campus intervention team members.
• Insure CIT are well informed of all agency safety and security related issues concerning team members, clients, guests, and volunteers.
• Oversees security and safety for agency personnel, children, guests, and property by maintaining constant vigilance of all agency activities and conditions.
• Responds to and interacts with residents and situations on campus where residents are in a crisis, such as runaways, aggressive, suicidal, or any other safety related incident.
• Ensure appropriate communication of all crisis incidents that occur with parents, guardians or others within and outside the agency.
• Contacts law enforcement when needed to ensure the safety and security of residents, staff, and visitors.
• Manage implementation of all emergency and safety policies and procedures to ensure the safety of residents and staff including ensuring that staff and resident departures and returns to and from campus and dorms (i.e. staff breaks, van check-ins and out, key management, resident passes) comply with policy/ procedure and consideration of weather conditions.
• Review, organize, and generate the relevant documentation of all related crisis activities and conditions within and outside of the agency.
• Provide physical supervision in living units, as well as all areas where children are located.
• Monitor building and surrounding grounds for safe and sanitary living conditions, coordinate needed repair and maintenance to meet licensing and accreditation standards including but not limited to safety drills.
• Communicate and document resident’s behaviors, issues and needs inside and outside the agency as necessary.
• Manage daily schedule changes to ensure staffing ratios meet requirements.
• Employ, manage, role model, and supervise the development of therapeutic rapport, strength based interactions, and crisis prevention and intervention skills for staff and residents.
• Ensure all privileges and consequences given to residents or strength based and follow policy and procedure.
• Monitor and model agency rules, policies and procedures including attendance, program/department specific procedures, workplace safety, code of conduct, social media, training requirements, and confidentiality.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma required and completion of 60 hours of college coursework with a focus on education.
• Must have at least three (3) years of experience in a youth residential environment and must show strong evidence of having successfully managed crisis situations for youth and staff.
• Possess a valid Class E driver’s license, dependable personal transportation, and valid auto insurance
• Must be able to transport clients in accordance with licensing standards.
• Age 21 years or older

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, procedural manuals, and treatment plans. Ability to write routine reports, business correspondence and procedural manuals. Ability to effectively speak before groups of clients, employees and/ or managers of the agency.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables and situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions. Strong ability to lead, organize and plan.
• Proficiency in MS Office Email, Word, & Excel

Physical Demands:

The physical requirements of this job include sitting, standing, walking, and climbing stairs on a regular basis, lifting up to 100lbs, and pulling and/or pushing on occasion.

Ability to perform all safe crisis management(SCM )certified physical intervention techniques to provide crisis intervention and for annual certification.

Work Environment:

Therapeutic residential facility. Evening, weekend and holiday shifts will be required. We'll need to transport clients to activities or appointments.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Epworth is an EEO/AA employer. Consistent with this policy, Epworth embraces diversity and welcomes colleagues and applicants of all backgrounds. Our goal is to empower every day and build a community that is inclusive, drawing upon the strengths of the diversity of our colleagues to exceed the expectations of our clients.

About Epworth

Founded in 1864, Epworth is a multiservice agency that seeks to empower youth who have experienced trauma to realize their unique potential by meeting essential needs, cultivating resiliency, and building community. Thousands of youth and families turn to Epworth each year for a full range of services including: therapeutic foster care and case management; residential and intensive treatment; individual/family therapy and comprehensive psychological testing; emergency shelter and longer-term housing services; life skills and vocational training; as well as crisis care and outreach through the Drop-In Center, food pantry, and 24-hour crisis help-line. Epworth is headquartered at 110 N. Elm Ave. in Webster Groves, Missouri and has locations in Normandy and South St. Louis City.

Our Mission
Empowering youth to realize their unique potential by meeting essential needs, cultivating resiliency, and building community.

Our Vision
A world in which every youth experiences life in all its fullness.

Our Values

Respect: We recognize the inherent worth and promote the well-being of every client and colleague.

Excellence: We offer evidence-based, high-quality programming and provide exceptional care and service.

Community: We cultivate a sense of belonging and solidarity among colleagues and advocate for racial equality and social justice throughout our communities.