Residential Youth Specialist - Mount Vernon, MO

MBCH Children & Family Ministries is seeking live-in, direct care professionals to provide trauma informed care for youth at our residential foster care campus in Mount Vernon, MO (30 miles west of Springfield, MO).

We have current openings in our Transitional Living Group Home mentoring young adults, and Therapeutic Goup Home for adolescents.

Our Residential Specialists work alternating weeks (7 days on / 7 days off) providing for our clients' needs and imparting life skills in a safe and structured environment which they help to create by modeling Christian values.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Client Supervision
• Communication & Collaboration with team members and others
• Ensure client health & welfare needs are provided for & addressed: manage medical appointments, medications, health concerns, dietary/nutrition
• Ensure client educational & life skills needs are provided for & addressed: helping and guiding with school, job, spending and budgeting money
• Ensure client spiritual needs are provided for & addressed: lead daily devotions, prayer, attend chapel services, etc.
• Administration functions: Documentation, reports, logs, meetings, etc.

Note: The live-in Residential Specialist schedule (7 days on / 7 days off) can work well for those who do not live in the immediate area since the commute would be only once per week.

Compensation and Benefits:

Insurance coverage in the following areas begins on the first day of employment:
•    Life Insurance  (equaling 3X the annual salary)
•    Medical/Health Insurance (for Employee only-$25.00 per month.)
•    Dental Insurance
•    Disability Insurance

After the six-month assessment period the following benefits begin:
•    Employee is eligible for a ½ step merit raise (based on 6-month evaluation/performance appraisal)
•    Employee begins accruing sick time (24 hours per year).
•    Employee begins retirement program.  On a monthly basis, the agency will put the equivalent of 10% of the employee’s monthly salary into the            retirement account.  (The 10% is not taken out of the salary.) Fully vested after five years of 20% per year schedule.

Other benefits:
•    Vacation time, sick time, and holidays are built-in to the regular days off every other week. After 5 years of employment, the employee earns 7              vacation days annually.  After 10 years of employment, 14 days are earned annually.
•    MCCA Certifications: at six, twelve and eighteen-month intervals, 3 levels of certification (Basic, Senior, Master) can be earned by meeting                 specific training and work experience requirements.  A pay increase of $320/semi-annually can be earned for each level obtained.
•    Training/Staff Development Opportunities at no cost to employee.
•    Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
•    Christian workplace atmosphere in a ministry setting