Bilingual Youth Care Professionals (All Shifts)

Description
Are you interested in making a life-saving difference for children and adolescents?
We're interviewing NOW for bilingual professionals like YOU for our new therapeutic program in Tucson, AZ. Day/Evening/Overnight shifts available, pays between $20 - $22/hr, plus $1,000 sign-on bonus!
Devereux will provide extremely high-quality, trauma-informed, culturally-competent residential and educational services for children, with intense supports for their social and emotional health. Each child's care is individualized to their needs, with a team of professionals providing consistent support through individual assessment and counseling, group counseling, medical and mental health services, behavior management, education and vocational services, and safety planning.
Devereux's ultimate goal is to ensure every child receives best-in-class services designed specifically to address the traumas they have sustained during, and often before, their migration journey as well as to help them connect either to shelter or foster care, or to their sponsor.
The Bilingual Youth Care Professional is part of multi-disciplinary team and is responsible for the execution of individual's treatment objectives and goals as assigned by the clinical team. Every day you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain a nurturing, trauma informed, therapeutic treatment environment that is conducive to healthy emotional growth among and between individuals.
• Protects the health and safety of the individuals while supervising and implementing program activities.
• Administer culturally responsive strategies in behavioral management.
• Provide education to individuals on everyday aptitudes and skills, creating an atmosphere of openness that facilitates learning and understanding of acculturation.
• Serve as a role model of behavior and attitude in supporting individuals' academic, social and vocational integration.

What Devereux Will Offer You:

• ASCEND - the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers - the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to $15k annually for undergraduate and $25k annually for graduate) and student loan repayment, among other benefits!
• A Servant Leadership culture, where employees feel welcomed, valued and empowered to voice ideas that will benefit the individuals and families we serve.
• Multi-disciplinary team setting with a strengths-based approach, emphasizing applied behavior analysis and positive behavior supports.
• Best available, highest quality, low-cost benefit options - learn more at benefits.devereux.org.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum one (1) year experience working with children or adolescents.
• Must be bilingual in English and Spanish.

Additionally:

• Fully immunized/vaccinated (or have a medical/religious exemption) for Varicella, MMR, TdAp, Influenza & COVID-19 prior to starting.
• Must be 21 years of age or older (per licensing standards)
• Valid Arizona Driver's License & pass DMV 36-month history check
• Current AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card with no restrictions (or eligibility to obtain with no restrictions)
• Pre-employment Physical and Job Demand Assessment (if applicable)
• Drug test within 24hrs of offer w/ negative results
• Ability to attend full time, paid, New Hire Orientation Monday - Friday 8:30am-5:00pm

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.