Overnight Direct Care Counselor (Weeknight/Weekend Shifts)
- Employer
- Walker, Inc
- Location
- Needham, MA, United States
- Salary
- Competitive
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- Job Category
- Support Staff, School Guidance Counselor
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Walker Residential is currently looking for Overnight Direct Care Counselors on a full and/or part-time basis for their Needham campus. Direct Care Counselors act as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team in a residential and school program for children with severe emotional and behavioral difficulties. The Direct Care Counselor provides a therapeutic milieu for children, maintaining a safe and healthy environment, and meeting the physical needs of the children.
Essential Functions of the position include:
Qualifications: Successful candidates will have an Associate's degree or equivalent experience, previous experience working in a similar population and a valid MA driver's license.
Essential Functions of the position include:
- Provide a therapeutic milieu for children, maintaining a safe and healthy environment, and meeting the physical needs of children.
- Actively monitor children during the overnight hours, including conducting 15-minute visual bed checks.
- Complete assigned housekeeping and laundry tasks.
- Actively participate in supervision and professional development opportunities offered at Walker.
- Implement treatment protocol established in children's treatment plans, IEPs, and individual crisis management plans.
- Properly attend to administrative functions of childcare, including attending required meetings; completing assigned oral and written report writing tasks.
- Apply Walker's model of childcare, including therapeutic crisis intervention methods and physical intervention, as necessary.
- Follow and implement all Walker policies and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: Successful candidates will have an Associate's degree or equivalent experience, previous experience working in a similar population and a valid MA driver's license.
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