The Residential Life Supervisor is directly responsible for creating and maintaining a therapeutic living environment for participants and for leading a team of Youth Development Counselors.

Reports To: Assistant Director of Residential Life

Location: 280 Shepherd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208

Hours: 40 Hours/Week; Non - Exempt (Day Shift 7:30 am - 3:30 pm)

Salary: $50,000 - $59,000 annually based on relevant experience and education

Major Duties:

• Coordinate daily routines and activities for youth, including provision of high-quality developmentally appropriate groups.
• Supervise program and youth development staff.
• With the director and assistant site director, hire, train, and supervise appropriate program staff and participate in the development, training, and retention of program staff. Provide orientation, supervision, and evaluation of Youth Development Counselors.
• Collaborate with assistant site director/group leader and program director to create staff schedules.
• Coordinate creation and circulation of tour reports and oversee all tour reports, logs and other relevant records, including incident reports, by timely review and response.
• Provide on-the-job and formal training for youth development staff.
• Serve as a role model in understanding and implementing the Missouri approach.
• Support staff in learning and consistently implementing the Missouri approach.
• Maintain on-call coverage schedule and provide on-call/triage in response to crisis and scheduling.
• Attend all mandatory program, agency, DYFJ and DOE meetings, including taking joint responsibility with director and assistant site director for program team meetings.
• Participate in treatment team and other forums as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Monitor staff performance/needs and, with director and assistant site director, communicate training needs to the GSS Learning Collaborative. Review staff LMS transcripts to ensure staff stay current in all needed areas.
• Lead the implementation of the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed practice within the program.
• Encourage and advance the use of the Sanctuary Model tools: safety plans, community meetings, psycho-educational groups, team meetings, red flag reviews, treatment planning conferences (or similar), and self-care in the program to create a non-violent and trauma-sensitive culture.
• Promote and model the seven Sanctuary Model commitments to create a non-violent and trauma-sensitive culture.
• Integrate the Sanctuary Model SELF (Safety, Emotional Management, Loss and Future) framework into daily practice to ensure quality care and an effective work environment.
• Utilize Sanctuary Model principles in the supervisory practice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma (or equivalent) with 5 years working with adolescent youth plus
• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree preferred with 3 years working with adolescent youth.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Valid New York State Driver’s License.
• Proven client sensibility and ability to communicate with staff on all levels to create and maintain a safe and therapeutic milieu.
• Demonstrated competence in verbal, written, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Capability to transition easily between working independently with a high degree of self-initiative and contributing as part of a team.
• Effective in conflict resolution and crisis intervention techniques and practices.
• Must be able to complete and pass all components of Safe Crisis Management de-escalation and physical intervention training.
• Ability to perform physical restraint of youth using approved restraint procedures.
• Must be capable of sustained physical exertion and have no limitations on ability to engage in necessary physical intervention activities including but not limited to standing and kneeling movements to and from the floor and supporting a participant’s body weight.
• Must be able to successfully complete state mandated medication administration training.
• Must be flexible to work during hours supervisees work (some evening, overnight and weekend and holiday hours).
• Must have a commitment to use and implement the Missouri approach, a group-based rehabilitative and therapeutic approach.
• Must have a commitment to work from a strength-based, youth and family development and trauma-informed perspective.