Therapeutic Youth Mentor

Position Summary: Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Therapeutic Youth Mentor provides direct support, guidance, and mentoring to help youth develop coping skills, improve communication, and build positive relationships. Therapeutic youth mentors are role models that facilitate activities and work collaboratively with other team members to assist youth in reaching their goals.

Starting Salary Range:  $16.19 - $17.59 per hour.  Salary reflects steps 1-5 of an 11-step pay schedule. The starting salary will be determined based on the applicant’s education and relevant experience.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities: 

1. Demonstrate strong interpersonal and customer service skills and ability to engage a diverse group of participants.
2. Demonstrate the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks concurrently.
3. Ability to exercise and model good judgment, teamwork, and professionalism, especially in crisis situations and creative about finding solutions for them.
4. Collaborate with teams, supervisors, educators, community partners and families to develop and implement comprehensive treatment plans and supporting youth’s complex needs.
5. Create and conduct necessary documentation accurately and able maintain documentation expectations in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).

Required Qualifications:

• 21 years old or older
• Criminal / Child Abuse Clearance: Must pass criminal record and child abuse registry background check as required by the State of Montana.
• High School Diploma or GED
• Driver’s License to operate passenger vehicle.

Required Abilities/Skills

• Ability to relate and build rapport with youth therapeutically while serving as a positive role model..
• Knowledge of and ability to maintain professional therapeutic boundaries and confidentiality with youth and families.
• Possess the ability to work with youth in multiple settings, such as individually and in groups.
• Ability to work in cooperation and collaboration with the treatment team.
• Ability to work 1:1 with youth, independent of other co-workers.
• Display regular, predictable, and reliable attendance at work.
• Excellent active listening skills
• The ability to complete forms within an electronic Medical Health Record System typing at least 35 words per minute while using a keyboard and mouse. (Familiarity with Microsoft Office 365 products is a plus.)
• Demonstrate sound & ethical judgment and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrate being self-motivated, self-disciplined, and diligent with forward thinking.
• Demonstrate the ability to think of their team over self and define success collectively rather than individually.
• The ability to effectively interact and communicate with others. These skills are essential for building and maintaining relationships, collaborating with colleagues, resolving conflicts, and navigating various social situations.
• Demonstrate the following values.
  • Faith - is being sure of successfully achieving our mission, based upon our trust in a loving creator.
  • Integrity - doing what is right, putting the needs of others above your own, and living by the highest values.
  • Relationship - being committed to one another in a mutually respectful, dignified, healthy, and honoring manner.
  • Stewardship is the use of any resource or talent entrusted to YBGR to fulfill the mission and values.
• Willingness and ability to obtain certification in First Aid/CPR and Violence Intervention Prevention.