Youth Care Leader

Location: Saskatoon, SK
Position: Full Time Permanent
Posting Closing Date: Sept 4, 2024

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact? As a Youth Care Leader, you’ll play a crucial role in guiding both our team and participants in a supportive group living environment. You’ll leverage your expertise to develop and implement engaging activity plans, encourage collaborative decision-making, and act as a positive role model in a therapeutic, safe, and stable setting. Your compassionate approach will provide essential care and support to individuals with complex needs, such as behavioral challenges, developmental disabilities, and mental health disorders. You’ll also be a key player in ensuring that treatment plans are effectively implemented, addressing the emotional and physical needs of each participant with dedication and care.

**Education and Professional Certification**
- A certificate, diploma, or degree in Child and Youth Care (CYC) or a related field of study.

**Experience**
- Minimum (1) year of experience working with children, youth, and/or adults facing behavioral, cognitive, mental health, and/or developmental challenges.
- Experience providing leadership, guidance, and support in a team environment.

**Skills and Characteristics**
- Strong collaborative skills to work effectively within a team environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build authentic relationships.
- Leadership abilities to role model, motivate, coach, mentor, and support others.
- Understanding of the challenges faced by clients at Ranch Ehrlo Society.
- Outgoing personality with interests that can engage participants (e.g., outdoors, arts, sports).
- Emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
- Ability to demonstrate empathy, patience, and understanding in daily interactions.
- Proficiency in behavior management and support methods.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Effective written and oral communication skills, with strong presentation abilities.
- Creativity in activity planning and program development.
- Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to handle competing priorities.
- Goal-setting abilities with a focus on clear, attainable outcomes.
- Flexibility and adaptability to new situations.
- Understanding of budgeting and resource allocation.
- Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
- Basic computer proficiency.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Services**
- Provide compassionate care and support to individuals with complex needs, behavioral challenges, developmental disabilities, mental health disorders, and related issues.
- Create and maintain a therapeutic environment.
- Lead the development and execution of activity plans.
- Engage actively and fully with participants.
- Share observations with clinical professionals and unit managers regarding treatment plans, goal setting, life skills, and social development groups.
- Participate in team meetings and contribute to discussions.
- Lead daily group meetings and facilitate educational groups.
- Support participants in areas including safety, treatment, medication administration, healthcare, nutrition, chores, and hygiene.
- Teach essential life skills such as self-care, cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and positive social interactions.
- Resolve conflicts and respond to crisis situations using behavior management and support methods, including conflict resolution, crisis management, and life space interviewing.
- Complete reports and documentation clearly, accurately, in a timely manner, and in accordance with agency standards.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.

**Leadership**
- Provide leadership and support to the team, potential employees, practicum students, and volunteers as directed by the unit manager.
- Collaborate with team members to foster a positive and productive work environment.
- Serve as a positive role model, upholding agency values and fairness.
- Communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team as needed.
- Make decisions regarding participant supervision, subgroup composition, and team task assignments in the absence of the unit manager.

**Management of Resources**
- Contribute input to the operational budget and the unit’s capital plan.
- Submit receipts and reconcile expenses for unit manager-approved expenditures.
- Ensure vehicle logs are accurately completed and that logs and gas receipts are submitted daily.
- Ensure the care, cleanliness, and maintenance of assigned assets and resources, including buildings, vehicles, furnishings, and equipment.

**Safety**
- Promote and reinforce safe work habits, practices, and procedures.
- Adhere to agency and government regulations, policies, practices, and instructions.

**Additional Requirements**
- Employees must hold a Class 5 Novice 2 or higher driver’s license and be eligible for coverage under our commercial auto insurance policy.

At Ranch Ehrlo Society, we understand the