About HeartShare
For over 100 years, HeartShare has been dedicated to improving the lives of individuals in need of special services and support. Our team of 2,100+ employees is committed to helping each person reach their fullest potential. HeartShare’s four preschools in Brooklyn and Queens provide personalized education and therapies to children with disabilities, ensuring their growth and independence.

 

HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) Nuevo Camino program is dedicated to providing 38 unaccompanied minors, ages 5-12, with a supportive, nurturing environment through transitional foster homes, daily education Monday - Friday, and supportive wrap-around services in the Sunset Park section of New York City. Our program is rooted in ensuring that service delivery is trauma informed, culturally appropriate, and tailored to the needs of each child while maintaining all program requirements of ORR. 

 

Nuevo Camino is looking for a Youth Counselor providing supervision, support, and direction to children in the Unaccompanied Minor program while promoting growth and development; completes all required logs, forms, and reports, participates in meetings as scheduled; accompanies groups or individual children for outside activities, transfers, or appointments as scheduled.  Nuevo Camino is looking to hire staff to fill 7am-3pm shift including mandatory weekends. 

Key Essential Functions:

Monitor and supervise youth in program to provide a safe, clean and secure environment  Maintain a safe, respectful, hospitable, and professional atmosphere  Facilitate groups or individual activities; accompanies and transports youth to outside activities (including supervised recreation) and appointments as required.  Assist with lunch and snacks for youth  Help maintain consistency in delivery of services and with regards to programmatic policies Document daily services, maintain client charts, progress notes, and group notes  Communicate with treatment team, and program supervisors  Attend mandatory staff meetings and regular supervision 

HeartShare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). If you need to request accommodation during the recruiting process, please reach out to Leaves@heartshare.org.