RANDI GUTHRIE
Fort Saskatchewan
Summary
Dedicated and experienced Team Leader with a strong background in providing care for youth in a campus based setting as well as managing staff on a organizational level.
Skilled in program creation and delivery, leadership, safety, training others, conducting assessments and documenting progress. Organized and dependable worker successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Team Lead, Child &Youth Care Worker
Government of Alberta- PCBC
11.2023 - Current
- Ensuring the environment is safe and secure and therapeutic program is followed to meet the needs of youth. Providing leadership and instruction to all staff.
- Communication training in crisis intervention, conflict resolution and de-escalation skills
- Liaise with many different stakeholders to exchange information and resolve issues.
- Supervise Child and Youth Care Workers on a day to day basis.
- Responsible for monthly supervision meetings, performance agreement and goal reviews. Currently overseeing four fulltime and three wage staff.
- Evaluate employee skills and knowledge regularly; training new employees and mentoring individuals in interactions with youth, providing feedback, and coaching.
- Make decisions regarding high risk situations and the use of restrictive procedures.
- Prepare shift schedules, authorize overtime, vacation time, and approve shift differentials in a timely manner.
- Suicide Intervention Trainer, 2024
Correctional Officer
Correctional Service Canada
02.2021 - 11.2023
- Communication training in crisis intervention, conflict resolution and de-escalation skills
- Collaborate with stakeholders regarding inmate behaviour, programs, and safety planning.
- Regional Trainer for "Suicide and Self-Injury Intervention Training" Curriculum
- Train new staff in various posts and safety procedures
- Monitor, supervise, and interact with 20+ inmates on daily basis ensuring safety procedures are followed.
- Ability to analyze and solve problem situations, to determine solutions, to make recommendations and take appropriate action in accordance with the mission and priorities of CSC.
- Ability to clearly convey information in documentation by writing Statement Observation Reports, post-search reports, seizure tags etc
- Supervise inmate movement including routine patrols and inmate counts
Emotional Behavioural Specialist
Edmonton Catholic School District
09.2018 - 01.2021
- Determined needed and relevant interventions based on each client's cognitive abilities and current emotional or behavioural needs
- Working one on one with youth and supervising youth at a 5:1 ratio in small groups
- Supervise and manage a team of 4 staff members
- Case Management with an average of 25-35 students
- Explore underlying causes of severe behaviour and prepare functional assessments, utilizing Positive Behaviour Supports and Risk Assessment
- Collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data
- Conduct research to formulate strategies and programming for students with behavioural, emotional needs
- Implement specialized programs (i.e Behaviour Intervention Plans, applied behaviour analysis)
- Wrote reports on clients and maintained required paperwork.
Therapeutic Assistant
Edmonton Catholic School District
09.2017 - 06.2018
- Handling caseload of 15-20 children per month
- Implement programs and strategies for specific children or group ranging 5-7 children within the classroom
- Develop materials related to varied programs/strategies as determined by the Emotional Behavioural Specialist
- Develop and maintain appropriate documentation of planned programs, collect quantitative data, document progress reports
- Participated in meetings with stakeholders to discuss program objectives and strategies.
- Working one on one with students and working in small groups 5:1 ratio
- Teaching life skills such as hygiene and emotional behavioural skills.
Child Youth Care Worker
Oak Hill Ranch
01.2016 - 08.2017
- Experienced working in five therapeutic house programs at Oakhill that accommodate various emotional and behavioural needs
- Conducting activity programming that are designed for their individual zones of proximal development,
- Responsible for taking youth on outings and appointments including one on one outings as well as 4:1 ratio
- Creating service and treatment plans for children with interdisciplinary teams
- Establish trusting and meaningful relationships with youth
- Daily written logs of monitoring youth's behaviours and their responses to programming and strategies and continuous communication with family regarding youth's progress.
- Taught life skills and coping mechanisms to residential population in one-on-one and group sessions
- Intervened in crisis situations and counseled children experiencing emergencies and disruptive incidents.
Education
Correctional Training Program
Correctional Service Canada
2021
Certificate - Criminal Intelligence Analysis
Humber College
2020
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology, Criminology
MacEwan University
2016
Skills
- Excellent Problem-Solving Skills
- Calm in Crisis Intervention
- Attentive and Observant
- Excellent Leader and Trainer
- Self-motivated
- Strong Organizational Skills
- Cultural Sensitivity
Certification
- Standard First Aid, & CPR level C & AED certified (2024)
- Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA level 1) (2020)
- Offender Management System Trained (OMS) (2023)
- Critical Incident Stress Management Training (2023)
Timeline
Team Lead, Child &Youth Care Worker
Government of Alberta- PCBC
11.2023 - Current
Correctional Officer
Correctional Service Canada
02.2021 - 11.2023
Emotional Behavioural Specialist
Edmonton Catholic School District
09.2018 - 01.2021
Therapeutic Assistant
Edmonton Catholic School District
09.2017 - 06.2018
Child Youth Care Worker
Oak Hill Ranch
01.2016 - 08.2017
Correctional Training Program
Correctional Service Canada
Certificate - Criminal Intelligence Analysis
Humber College
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology, Criminology
MacEwan University
- Standard First Aid, & CPR level C & AED certified (2024)
- Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA level 1) (2020)
- Offender Management System Trained (OMS) (2023)
- Critical Incident Stress Management Training (2023)
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