Youth Counselor

Description

Plans and organizes work to meet all job requirements, according to Vista Maria and COA standards,
licensing, and funding requirements.
• Provides weekly individual counseling to assigned clients.
• Complete counseling notes for assigned clients in our computerized systems.
• Leads daily groups to improve functions of the body and brain.
• Assists clients with activities of daily living; intervenes when adaptive behaviors arise and assists through collaboration and verbal crisis intervention, as needed.
• Ensure clients participate daily in an hour of recreational therapy.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Transports clients to and from shopping outings and work as needed.
• Act as an advocate in treatment team meetings, and court hearings as needed.
• Attend and participate in in-service training, and all staff meetings as scheduled.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, programming, and safety and environmental and infection control standards.
• Collaboration with clients, families, and external agencies.
• Acts as a liaison between the Independent Living Specialist and client when there are barriers in trust and connections with Independent Living Specialists.
• Contributes to the team daily and lives the agency mission, vision, and core values.
• Completes assigned accountabilities weekly.
• Demonstrates diversity, equity, and inclusion responsiveness, personal integrity, and professional demeanor in accordance with Vista Maria ethics and the ethics of the program.
• Complete all other related tasks as required or assigned by the supervisor and program manager.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES
• Knowledge of adverse childhood experiences and how it affects the body and the brain.
• Demonstration of emotional regulation skills.
• Demonstrates safe and appropriate boundaries to vulnerable clients.
• Knowledge of sensory interventions.
• Proficiency in basic computer skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interact positively in a culturally diverse environment.
• Promotes and supports the agency's cultural and core values of a trauma-informed, client driven, integrate healthy environment.

Requirements

Minimum Required
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in any major from an accredited college or university.
• Ability to verbally de-escalate crisis situations.
• Valid driver's license without relevant restrictions.
Preferred:
• Bachelor's degree in a human behavioral science or another major with 25% of the credits in a human behavioral science from an accredited college or university.
• 1 year experience working with individuals exposed to trauma.
• First Aide/CPR trained.