Job Description
Job DescriptionDescription:
JOB DESCRIPTION: Mentor
TIME COMMITMENT: 24-40 hours a week
SCHEDULE: Tue/Thu/Sat & Alt. Sundays shift or PRN
REPORTS TO: Shift Supervisor
Job Type: At-Will Employee
Pay: Starting $17+ an hour, based on training, education, and experience
A Mentor is directly responsible for the physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, educational, social, safety and security needs of each student, and to work together with other staff as a team
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Becoming competent in all Mentor Essentials
- Obtaining and maintaining required certifications such as CPI, CPR, First Aid, Food Handlers, Telos Employee Handbook, etc.
- Establishing healthy relationships and boundaries with students assigned to your Q
- Performing assigned “eyes-on-student” Q15 checks, and documenting checks immediately
- Coaching and Assisting students to achieve their daily basics (Cooperation, Care, Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility)
- Coaching and Assisting students in the accomplishment of daily chores and hygiene by working beside them, giving them support, and holding them accountable
- Coaching and Assisting students with Geneva program requirements, policies, and procedures
- Enforcing rules and statuses while on shift - do not hand this off to the next shift
- Monitoring and carrying out consequences under the direction of the Shift Supervisor
- Handing off a clean, organized, and presentable House to the next shift
- Attending the Passdown Meeting, reviewing the Q’s and schedules, and completing Daily Charting for Q students on before the end of shift, and IR’s as required
- Supporting and assisting other Telos departments in their duties (Clinical, Nursing, Telos Academy, Maintenance, Transports, PrTMS, Food Prep, etc.)
- Participating on assigned committees or special assignments
- Assisting with AWOLS, whether or not on shift
- Calling Support Teams, and initiating and participating in CPI compliant therapeutic holds and restraints
Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Exceptional relationship skills
- Executive Function Skills
- Dependable, reliable, accountable
- Ability to maintain and hold appropriate boundaries
- Ability to receive and carry out instruction and coaching
- Genuine care and concern for others