Employee Benefits
San Diego Youth Services offers comprehensive benefits to core employees who work regularly at least 20 hours a week.
Leave benefits may include paid-time-off (18 days for the 1st year, 22 days for the 2nd, 27 days thereafter), parental leave, bereavement leave, jury/witness duty leave, sabbatical leave, and 13 holidays.
In addition, we provide for a cafeteria-style benefits packet that allows eligible employees to choose from five HMO and one PPO health insurance plans, a DMO or a PPO dental plan, vision plan, a 403 (b) account (a non-profit retirement savings option), and a dependent-care, expense-reimbursement program.
Employees may also choose to participate in any of the following:
- Life insurance
- Personal hospital intensive care insurance, personal recovery coverage, personal sickness indemnity plan, personal cancer protector plan
- Personal accident expense plan
- Personal short-term disability insurance
- Direct deposit of paychecks
Furthermore, employees can purchase chocolates and candies at a discount from See’s wholesale outlet store, as well as discounted admissions to the movie theaters such as AMC, Pacific, Edwards, Regal, and UA theaters. We regularly distribute offers that assist employees in participating in recreational activities at promotional rates such as discount coupons to Knott’s Berry Farm, Soak City, Magic Mountain, the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park.
Pre-employment Requirements
Upon hire, San Diego Youth Services may require the following documents/information prior to employment, depending upon position.
- I-9 Employment
- Proof of car insurance
- Copy of driving record
- First Aid/CPR certification
- Criminal record verification including fingerprinting
- TB test results
- Physical examination
- Child Abuse Index check
- Experience verification
- Education and/or license verification
- Other as determined by position hired for
