Child & Youth Worker

About the position

This position partners closely with house parents to help create a safe, nurturing, and Christ-centered home environment for children in foster care. The schedule is Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. with 7:00 p.m. with occasional weekend coverage. Travel between neighborhood foster homes may be required.

Responsibilities

  • Support house parents in creating a safe, structured, and nurturing home environment
  • Build safe, trusting relationships with children using trauma-informed care principles
  • Recognize the impact of trauma and respond with patience, empathy, and consistency
  • Provide attentive, developmentally appropriate care for infants and toddlers
  • Engage children of all ages through play, conversation, and relationship-building
  • Assist with homework, routines, chores, and life skills development for older children and teens
  • Provide supervision and reinforce expectations and appropriate behaviors
  • Transport children to daycare, school, appointments, and activities as needed
  • Help maintain the home (light cleaning, organizing, and maintaining a child-safe environment)
  • Respond calmly and effectively to behavioral challenges and crisis situations
  • Administer medications as trained
  • Provide on-call support and coverage for house parents as needed

Requirements

  • Committed Christian with alignment with 4KIDS statement of faith
  • Must be 23 years of age or older with valid drivers license in order to drive children in company provided vans
  • Minimum two years experience working with children
  • Strong communication and relational skills
  • Basic computer skills for documentation
  • Ability to meet the physical demands of caring for young children (lifting, carrying, active supervision)
  • Ability to work in a team within a home-based environment
  • Must have reliable transportation that can be used for work purposes

Nice-to-haves

  • Associates Degree preferred in related field
  • Knowledge of trauma informed care principles and experience working with children impacted by trauma preferred

Benefits

  • medical/dental/life/disability insurance provided
  • 403b retirement plan with match
  • Excellent vacation and holiday benefits
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