Residential Counselor - Per Diem

Residential Counselors – Per Diem

Young Adult Services - Waltham

Salary Range:  $19.25 - $20.00/hour depending on experience.

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has open positions for provisional Residential Counselors for our Young Adult program located in Waltham, where you can begin to build a career! Wayside provides a warm work environment with team focused management that places value on healthy work dynamics.
 

What You Will Do:  

• Directly supervise and engage with youth/residents in activities and daily routines. 
• Support skill building for all youth/residents through collaborative team work. 
• Show yourself to be a willing learner in trainings and maintain necessary certifications.  
• Facilitating recreational activities for clients, working with the staff team to ensure the program structure while providing positive role modeling for youth.  
• Safe client transportation and medication administration once MAP certified.  
• Assist the program in providing basic needs for clients, such as regular meals, a safe and clean-living environment, recreational activities, and appropriate hygiene.  

 Competencies/Traits of Our Superstars:   

• High quality communication skills show an ability to connect with others, approachable, being respectful to others, able to communicate with others at all levels.  
• Reflective self-awareness.  
• Ability to manage risk. 
• Dynamic ability to support youth.  
• Demonstrates flexibility and creative thinking (i.e. ability to adapt and adjust to changing work situations, processes, and procedures).  

Minimum Requirements: 

• Must be available evenings and weekends. 
• Valid drivers’ license required - motor vehicle background record checks will be completed. 
• High School degree or equivalent required.  

We will train you in:  Motivational Interviewing; Courageous Conversations; Attachment, Regulation and Competency Model (ARC); Trauma Informed Practice, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, CPR and First Aid