Employment & Training

Additional Qualifications:

• Must have a valid Illinois Driver's License.
• Prior experience or education in child welfare or human services field.

Responsibilities:

• Provide supervision of basic living needs, such as food, shelter, clean clothes, bedding, and other personal items and services needed to meet the requirements of reasonably comfortable and socially acceptable group living as well as the special needs of individual residents.
• Stimulates residents to expand their knowledge base, assists in tutoring and helping them do their homework assignments, and generally orients them toward social norms which govern life both within and outside the agency.
• Provides and symbolizes adult security to residents by maintaining discipline and order within the group, keeping the demands of individual residents in balance with the needs of the group as a whole.

Respond To:
Lawrence Hall Youth Services
Attention: Human Resources
2737 W. Peterson Avenue
Chicago, IL 60659
FAX (773) 728-9630
e-mail:bwilbarger@lawrencehall.org
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
EOE M/F/D/V

Additional Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in social work and LSW or LCSW required.
• Type 73
• Valid Illinois drivers license with no suspensions in effect within the previous three years of hire.
• Must have personal vehicle or access to a vehicle.
• No history of child abuse or neglect.
• Must take and pass the Child Welfare Core Curriculum Training and CERAP within one year of employment.

Responsibilities:

• Carries a selected load of clients and families as assigned, focusing on the use of individual, group or family treatment modalities.
• Formulates and frequently reviews treatment plans with clinical manager.
• Implements the specified treatment process.
• Takes leadership in the planning and evaluation of conferences.
• Takes responsibility for presenting intake material to relevant staff and presenting in Intake Committee for final decision.
• Provides data, information and the treatment goals to relevant staff. Works with other staff in coordination of efforts to reach the treatment goals established.
• Works closely with other staff in meeting the needs of clients under care.
• Determines visiting schedule for residents, if applicable, and keeps informed about benefits and problems following visits as provided by childcare and educational staff.
• Interprets agency’s services to assigned clients.
• Attends agency and other professional seminars and conferences to increase professional knowledge and skills.
• Liaison to DCFS or other agency (courts, school districts, etc.), communicating goals and progress toward accomplishment.
• Determines with the team, needs for adjunctive community programs (schools, recreation, jobs, vocational opportunities, medical, etc.).
• Liaison/facilitator in community, police and neighborhood situations.
• Locates and evaluates resources, facilitates referral and supportive services on and off campus.
• Facilitates the classroom community philosophy and voting process for student of the week/month
• Ability to work effectively with clients and staff in a culturally diverse environment.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous quality improvement in all aspects of the position.
• Participates in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement activities as assigned.

Respond To:
Lawrence Hall Youth Services 2737 W. Peterson Chicago, Illinois 60659 FAX: 773-728-9630 e-mail: bwilbarger@lawrencehall.org NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE EOE M/F/D/V

Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Music Therapy.
• Registered Music Therapist-Board Certified, or eligible.
• Ability to effectively utilize verbal and physical intervention. Physical intervention requires the ability to kneel and return to standing without assistance.
• Previous experience with youth desired.
• Must have valid IL DL and no history of child abuse or neglect.
• Ability to work effectively with clients/staff of diverse cultural, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.

Responsibilities:

• Completes individual assessment of youth within 5 days of admission, utilizing established departmental assessment procedures.
• Maintains involvement in departmental planning from a comprehensive, as well as specific program planning perspective, participating in needs assessments, team meetings and departmental meetings.
• Implements specific programs, special events and other activities, as generally designed in specific program description.
• Evaluates specific programs as established by departmental policies. Completes formal documentation procedures as established by departmental policies.
• Maintains membership in professional organizations and keeps current credentials in appropriate/relevant discipline and maintains professional organizational involvement.
• Establishes and maintains professional relationships with clients and responds to problem behaviors in methods established by departmental and agency policies.
• Ability to work effectively with clients and staff in a culturally diverse environment.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continuous quality improvement activities, as assigned.
• Completes other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Respond To:
Lawrence Hall Youth Services Attention: Human Resources 2737 W. Peterson Avenue Chicago, IL 60659 FAX (773) 728-9630 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE EOE M/F/D/V e-mail: bwilbarger@lawrencehall.org