Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Description:
Job Title: Life Skills Coach 1
Department: Child Welfare Program Director
Reports to: Child Welfare Program Director
Job Type: Full Time, Salary or Hourly, Non-Exempt
Job Location: Chicago, IL
Salary Range : $43,000- $48,000
Rincon - Building Spaces, Restoring Communities- Who we are:
What began as a small clinic established by young community leaders on the West Side of Chicago in 1972 has grown into one of the largest providers of high-quality and culturally competent services focusing on counseling and crisis intervention services, substance use prevention and treatment, violence prevention, education, case management, community and family services. We are dedicated to rendering compassionate and effective programs to promote the quality of life by catalyzing to advocate, educate and empower individuals and their families.
Position Description – What the Role Entails:
This individual will work as the Life Skills Coach, and as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team at the Lavergne House Transitional Living Program (TLP). This staff will provide life skills training to the youth in care onsite and offsite that includes but not limited to crisis intervention, case stabilization and integration, daily living and life skills. The staff member will participate in team meetings and case staffing. The Staff will also document all activities in the youth’s case file.
Company Culture - Do Our Values Speak to You?
At Rincon, our commitment to mutual respect, inclusivity, and diversity is woven into the structure of all that we do. We value:
- Dedication - Embodying effective and transparent leadership and quality client care.
- Education – Preventative programming and clinical services based on industry standards, competence and outreach.
- Accountability – Consistent service delivery, measurable success, and sensible financial management.
- Advocacy – Empowerment, reduction of treatment stigma, and relationship building with partners.
- Compassion – Embracing culturally diverse communities and equality through sensitivity to individual needs.
With these values in mind, we promote a culture that fosters professional development and agency success. Many of our employees span an extended tenure, and we pride ourselves on developing dedicated and supported team members.
Areas of Accountability - What you will be doing:
- Effectively use written, verbal, and non-verbal communication to communicate ideas to supervisor and other peers and clients.
- Maintain a positive and productive work environment for clients.
- Must have knowledge of affective conflict resolution and problem solving skills. Recognize and distinguish between productive and non-productive conflict and appropriately use effective conflict resolution techniques to respond to problems, conflicts and grievances.
- Develop problem and goal lists and aftercare plans: prioritize problems and plans appropriate methods of addressing problems, make appropriate referrals.
- Must be have to develop positive relationships with clients and be able to use effective communication skills to engage them in planning and follow up. Must identify obstacles to recommendations and minimize their impact.
- The staff will utilize the DCFS Service Plan to guide the youth in meeting their individualized goals and objectives.
- Must be able to ,assist, under supervision with identifying potential conflicts and implement crisis intervention techniques to prevent or intervene in potential crisis situations.
- Must have the ability to assist with implementing a plan for increasing placement stabilization for on-run youth.
- Must have the ability to transport or facilitate transportation of youth in care as needed or requested.
- Must able to use appropriate professional terminology to complete forms and records, accurately documenting client session, planning, and progress.
- Must be able to maintain client records, through both paper files and electronic record keeping systems. Must meet documentation standards as required by program and funding sources, including documentation of individual and group interactions assessments & individual service plans.
- Develop and maintain relationships with community-based organizations and other support services .
- Must have the ability to develop and maintain a community referral binder with the contact information of community-based organizations.
- Must be able to assist youth in care to navigate community resources and support in an in-vivo approach (coach) and process experience with the client.
- Must have the ability to develop, implement and train using life and daily living skills curricula
- Ability to propose, develop and implement activities that foster wellness for program youth.
- Must attend all required meetings, committees, and trainings according to program standards.
- Must participate in QI process.
- Must participate in the agency training programs
- Must participate in regular supervision with Program Supervisor and Director of Child Welfare
- Must be able to provide coordination and linkage with community agencies for enhanced care and support .
Rincon Rewards & Benefits- How we value you:
- Health insurance
- Dental & Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
- Generous PTO (Paid time off)- Accrue up to 21 days in Year 1, some PTO carryover allowable.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Employment may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
- Certain employees may qualify for City of Chicago commuter transit benefits
Rincon’s Work Environment – What to expect:
- The individual must be able to successfully perform essential functions of this job including carry charts to and from their offices/desks, prepare for group activities that may entail moving chairs and/or tables, carrying bags/boxes of food or decorating group activity areas. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Employees are responsible for informing supervisor of any invisible disability or medical restriction that limit physical capability.
- The work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. There may be occasions that call for an employee to carry out duties at other agency offices. Traveling to and from meetings is necessary. Some of the work duties would be conducted in the field, which would require travel and having a reliable vehicle.
Annual Trainings:
As part of the organization's commitment for quality service all staff have to complete the following trainings yearly, but other trainings will be scheduled based on the program or funding requirements.
- Orientation to Agency Policy and Procedures
- Orientation to IDHS & DCFS Administrative Rules and Regulations
- Orientation to agency treatment philosophy
- Orientation to EMR, email system, and other software associated to program
- Customer Service
- Cultural Competency & Diversity
- Person Centered services & treatment planning
- Work Place Violence and De-escalation techniques
- Ethics
- Health & Safety, Emergency Procedures
- Critical Incident, Abuse and Neglect Reporting
- Rights of the Person, Confidentiality, Advance Directives
- Corporate Compliance, Grievance and satisfaction survey process
- Orientation to organization's programming, inter/external referral process
- Education on medication treatment (methadone and psychotropic medication)
- Program Specific Trainings, Effective Case Management
- Mental Health First Aid
- Trauma Inform Care
- Fundamentals of DCFS
- Overdose (Opioid) Awareness and how to use reversal medications (Narcan)
Schedule:
- 9AM-5PM (1 Hour unpaid lunch), Other hours may be required.
Language:
- Must be able to speak English
Requirements:
The Knowledge and Expertise that Matters Most - What you bring to the Role:
- Good listening, communication and case management skills. Able to tailor communication styles to make the client feel comfortable.
- Ability to engage clients in a clinically and respectful manner.
- Initiative and big-picture thinking.
- Planning skills.
- Basic understanding of legal issues of this population.
- Basic understanding of addiction issues of this population.
- Basic understanding of mental illness issues of this population.
- Understanding of Trauma Inform Care. (Agency will train in trauma informed care)
- Understanding of internal and external medical and supportive services.
- Cultural competence and sensitivity.
- Fast, accurate documentation skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with peers, individual clients and groups.
- Desire to learn new skills.
- Knowledge of community and social service agencies.
- Ability to maintain accurate records and necessary paperwork.
- Knowledge of de-escalation methods or ability to be trained in de-escalation methods.
Position Qualifications – What is required to Perform the Role:
- Two years college in psychology, or a related field, or at least 5 years' experience in Social Services
- Assist with writing and implementing a treatment plan.
- Knowledge on usage of computers, and its associated software.
- Must pass a pre-employment background check. This includes clearance by the DHS Background Check Unit.
- Physical ability to bend, stoop, kneel, squat, twist, reach, pull and lift heavy objects.
- Must be able to climb stairs several times a day.
- Must adhere to agency’s non-discrimination policies.
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