Bilingual Recreation Specialist - St. PJ's Children's Home
On-siteSan Antonio, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Recreation Specialist at St. PJ's Children's Home coordinates and implements daily recreational activities for UAC, ensures a safe, clean environment, and delivers trauma-informed care in line with agency policy, TDFPS Minimum Standards, and ORR policy. Responsibilities include designing and scheduling age-appropriate activities, facilitating outdoor and structured programs, creating monthly calendars, maintaining supplies, recruiting and supervising volunteers, arranging off-campus field trips, chaperoning with a 4:1 staff ratio, producing weekly recreation logs, implementing the La Tiendita token economy, and collaborating with campus and community partners. Requires bilingual English/Spanish, strong communication and organizational skills, ability to manage multiple tasks, and a commitment to safety, confidentiality, and culturally sensitive care.
Required Qualifications
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
- Minimum of High School diploma, or Equivalent plus two years of employment experience in the child
- welfare field planning activities for children and/or adolescents.
- Minimum one-year experience in the child welfare field working with children and/or adolescents in a social service setting.
- MISSION: The Mission of St. PJ's Children's Home is to be a safe and loving refuge for children in crisis and to accompany them on their journey to healing and wholeness, breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect one child at a time.
- Under the general direction of the Assistant Program Director, the Recreation Specialist is responsible for the coordination and implementation of daily recreational activities for UAC in accordance with agency policy, TDFPS Minimum Standards and ORR Policy. This includes ensuring a safe, clean and…
- *Designing, scheduling and facilitating age-appropriate activities for the residents, including cultural and spiritual activities;
- *Ensuring educational services are provided in a manner that promotes best practices and facilitates the optimum delivery of quality trauma informed care to UAC;
- *Ensuring that UAC receive at least one hour per day of outdoor, unstructured leisure activities and one hour per day of structured activity (outdoor recreation is increased to a total of three hours per day on weekends and holidays);
- *Creating a monthly recreation calendar that includes cultural and spiritual activities;
- Maintaining recreational supplies and equipment inventory;
- *Ensuring that necessary supplies, equipment, and directions/instructions are available for all unstructured and structured activities;
- Working with the volunteer coordinator to recruit, train, and monitor viable program volunteers who have specialized skills or talent to share with residents;
- Working with community organizations, groups, and businesses to procure special activities and events for the residents;
- Collaborating with the domestic services in the planning and implementation of campus-wide activities and events;
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