Child Care Worker-RTF (5779)

Job Details

Job Location: Champlin Ave - Utica, NY 13502, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: $20.16 - $20.16 Hourly, Travel Percentage: Occasional, Job Shift: Evening, $1000 Sign on bonus 3-11pm, includes weekends

About Us

The House of the Good Shepherd (HGS) has been changing children’s lives for over 150 years. We provide individualized, compassionate care to youth and families through a range of residential, educational, community, and foster care programs across Central New York, the Mohawk Valley, and the North Country. Our agency is built on a foundation of empathy, resilience, and the Sanctuary Model of care, which guides our commitment to healing and hope.

What You’ll Do

As a Child Care Worker, you’ll be a steady presence for children and teens who have experienced significant trauma. In this role, you’ll help create a sense of structure, safety, and security as they navigate daily life in a residential setting. The work can be challenging, but your support will be a key part of a young person’s healing journey.

Qualifications: Education and Experience Requirements

• Minimum high school or equivalency diploma required; some higher education preferred.
• Experience with children highly desirable; sufficient maturity to work with and relate to children required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

• Commitment to following and embracing the Seven Commitments of our Sanctuary Model.
• Ability to form positive relationships with children.
• Ability to understand and respond to children's basic developmental needs.
• Ability to understand and follow agency policy and Trauma Informed Care orientation.
• Understanding of basic needs and developmental issues of children in a way that promotes growth and respects individuality.
• Asks age and developmentally appropriate questions and actively listens to children’s responses.
• Develops a warm, positive, nurturing relationship with each child.
• Follows mandated reporting requirements regarding child abuse and neglect.
• Practices infection control, including appropriate hand washing procedures.
• Uses knowledge of developmental milestones, assists children in participating at their individual level of interest and ability.
• Interacts with children during meal and snack times, promoting appropriate social behavior.
• Applies knowledge of child development to plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and environments.
• Adapts activities and environments to meet the special needs and situations of individual children.
• Identifies developmentally appropriate behavior and reasonable expectations for children’s behavior.
• Uses observation as a way to “get to know” children –their interests and developmental levels.
• Ability for role model and teach appropriate behavior to children.
• Demonstrate a high level of professionalism at all times.
• Valid New York state driver’s license.