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Child Care Workers Job Description
Job Description
Child Care Worker is responsible for supporting, supervising, and assisting house youth in care. Child Care staff should promote a sense of connection to family, community, and culture. They create opportunities within the program for youth to experience the core value of independence through teaching life skills, helping with homework, and facilitating group meetings. Child Care staff will work closely with case managers and ISP team members to ensure the youth’s permanency plan is progressing. The successful candidate will have experience working with at-risk youth. This is a full-time position.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma required
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate with co-workers, medical personnel, and other persons necessary to care for the child’s needs.
- Must be 21 years of age
- One year of experience working with at-risk youth.
- Computer skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel, with the ability to learn new programs.
- Ability to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflicts, and listen.
- Ability to deal calmly in crisis situations.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to be compassionate and firm and always maintain confidentiality.
- Knowledge of community resources.
- Ability to be flexible.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team to achieve goals.
- Success at managing a wide array of tasks and projects and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment.
- Excellent organization and planning skills.
- Commitment to the Mission of Dream Residential Treatment Center
Other Requirements
- Must have reliable transportation, a valid Texas driver’s license, and valid vehicle insurance.
- The position requires driving in a personal and/or agency vehicle, including freeways and highways, to satellite offices, offsite meetings, and events as needed.
- Must be able to work on a flexible schedule as needed to meet work, program, and project deadlines.
- Pass Background Check, TB Test, and Submit to Random Drug Testing
- Submit driving record for the past 3 years.
- Must be a US citizen or legal resident
- Pass a federal and state background screening.
- Pass a drug screening.
- Must possess an HS diploma or GED
- Provide references
- TB test
DFPS requires caregivers to complete all training listed below:
Medical Consent
This training is for any person authorized to make medical decisions for children in the legal custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). This includes foster parents, case managers for child placing agencies, professional staff of emergency shelters, cottage parents, relative and kinship caregivers, and certain DFPS staff and youth medical consenters.
Normalcy
This course will help you understand the need for children in your care to have a normal living environment. We call this normalcy. This federal law was created to improve the well-being and normalcy of children and youth in foster care.
CPS must allow children in foster care to do things and have experiences that are normal for kids their age.
Psychotropic Medication
This training explains Child Protective Services’s expectations for the safe and effective use of psychotropic medications by children in DFPS conservatorship. Talk to your child’s doctor about any specific questions you may have about the medications your child is taking. These medications treat symptoms of psychosis or other mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
Preventing and Recognizing Youth Sexual Abuse
This training explains how to prevent and recognize youth sexual abuse. This training must be taken in the DFPS caregivers portal.
Runaway Prevention
DFPS provides this training to help families, and caregivers identify ways to prevent or reduce the risk that children and youth in foster care will run away or go missing.
Trauma Informed Care
This course for caregivers will help you understand how trauma affects behaviors in children and youth, including how “trauma triggers” can increase the risk that a child or youth will run away or go missing.
Transportation Safety
Transporting Children Safely in Child Care is designed to provide child care providers with basic knowledge on the correct selection, usage, and installation of child safety seats as well as guidelines for protecting children in and around vehicles.
Cyber security
DIR has developed certified training. This video is being offered free of charge, in English and Spanish, to anyone who needs to meet the training requirements of Texas Government Code 2054.5191 or 2054.5192 and based on each organization’s preference.
Water Safety
DFPS encourage you to promote water safety awareness with your networks all year. The goal is to reach as many individuals as possible to equip families with knowledge and resources to support water safety practices in Texas.
Mandatory Reporting Community Response for Youth and Families
This course provides professional reporters with information on mandatory reporting law. Professional reporters will obtain general knowledge regarding who and how to report while developing a basic understanding of abuse and neglect. This training does not meet all training requirements mandated by Texas Education Code § 38.004 (c)(2).
Human Trafficking Foundations for Child Watch Support Coordinators | DFPS LearningHUB
Human trafficking, a severe violation of human rights and a violent crime is a modern-day form of slavery. Its victims are controlled and exploited for profit. Forced labor and sexual exploitation are the most common types of human trafficking.
Most trafficking victims are often not held physically captive but nevertheless are not free to leave their trafficker. In fact, trafficking victims’ bonds and chains are most often invisible due to the psychological and physical abuses and threats perpetrated by their traffickers.