Youth Care Worker
- Working Days: 5 days/week – 44 hrs (3 shifts)
- Salary: $2,200 to $3,100
- Location: Potong Pasir
The Youth Care Worker is responsible with delivering trauma-informed care, supervision, and management to female adolescents who have faced abuse or neglect. Focused on enhancing wellness and quality of life, the Youth Care Worker ensures that the residents' basic personal, physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, educational, and social needs are comprehensively addressed.
Responsibilities
- Carry out the daily operational duties and supervise residents in their regular activities
- Assist residents with any difficulties related to day-to-day issues at Dayspring Residential Treatment Centre and ensure their welfare and safety
- Promote discipline among the residents and be a mentor/role model to them
- Assess, respond and handle crises or conflicts
- Carry out individual therapeutic interventions based on care plans by treatment team
- Participate in providing physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, educational, and social needs of residents
Requirement
- Youth Mentors are required to work with young beneficiaries with complex trauma
- With experience in working with youth at-risk
- With basic processing and counselling skills
- With knowledge of common issues and disorders that appears in trauma and abuse
- Willing to work on 3-shift rotations and over weekend/Public Holidays