Assistant Family-Teacher

Company:	Boys Town Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (5)
Job Location(s):	Washington
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:	Competitive
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Education - K12, Education - Professional/Vocational, Non-Profit/Associations

Position Description

Assistant Family-Teacher

Boys Town is a beacon of hope for America’s children and families through its life-changing youth and health care programs across the United States. The 90-year old organization is embarking on a new mission to affect change in the puzzling system by building a continuum care to provide the right services at the right time based on a child’s or family’s needs.

Assistant Family-Teacher

Responsibilities

Provides for moral/spiritual/ educational development

Teaches and counsels youth on appropriate skills and behaviors

Provides and fosters loving, caring, and safe environment

Budget management

Maintains and prepares records

Acts as a liaison for consumers, outside agencies, and internal personnel

Requirements

See well enough to read reports, point cards, monitor youth, drive a vehicle, and observe discrete behaviors. Hear well enough to converse on telephone and hear comments mumbled under breath. Speak well enough to teach skills, give feedback, discuss strategies, and converse on telephone. Body movement or mobility to track behaviors of youth moving around the house. Ability to climb flights of stairs and get into a van. Dexterity to write, cook, and help with models and games. Strength to carry groceries, suitcases, and move furniture. Stamina to work 18-hour shifts and drive for up to four hours.

1. Ability and desire to work and live with youth; 2. At least 21 years of age; 3. High school diploma or equivalent, with some college credits preferred; 4. Must have a valid driver's license with a good driving record; 5. Willingness to work flexible hours in order to assist the Family Teaching Couple with youth and home activities. Candidates are required to pass a medical examination and a thorough background reference verification procedure in order to determine one's fitness to satisfactorily and safely care for youth. The background check also includes validating the driver's license and evaluating an individual's driving record, e.g. DUI, reckless driving, moving violations and at fault accidents. Incumbents in this position must be certified and able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychological, psycho/social, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the youth being serviced in his/her assigned service area. AFT II's are considered developed in our Performance-Based Evaluation system. The designation of AFT II signified that the employee is prepared to assume a role in a Family Home as a mature, competent, and credentialed member of the treatment team. The skills and knowledge needed to provide such care may be gained through education, training, ore experience. Once the Assistant Family Teacher II (developed) meets criteria on their fifth certification, their title will change to Senior Assistant Family Teacher II (fully developed). Again, they are considered fully developed in our Performance-Based Evaluation System.

Worker is subject to outside environmental conditions occasionally; inside conditions frequently, with protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The work includes constant interruptions, inappropriate behaviors, and the potential for verbal and physical threats from youth. Required to spend 24 hours in the residential home several times per month.