Overnight Youth Counselor

Mount Prospect Academy

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Job Description - Awake Overnight Counselor (Overnight Residential Youth Counselor - Direct Support)

Reports to : Awake Overnight Supervisor

Pay Rate up to $22.00hr

Location : Hampton, NH

Now Hiring Overnight Counselors Full-Time, New Pay Rates, Full Benefits, Paid Time Off, Overtime and a Rewarding Career!

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Awake Overnight Counselor Responsibilities & Opportunities :

Responsible for service delivery to the students in accordance with program goals and each students' Individual Treatment Plan. Connection with students is our primary means to gain understanding, compassion, and forge treatment progress. Providing meaningful and life-relevant programming with engages youth is our primary means of facilitating a positive program culture and making treatment progress possible for our students.

Company Background

Welcome to Mount Prospect Academy, a rapidly growing alliance of nonprofit agency founded in 2003, with the goal of helping struggling adolescents find a zest for life" and succeed in the business of life.

Mount Prospect Academy (MPA) has evolved to offer a variety of mental & behavioral health support services to a diverse population of hard to treat and difficult to place adolescents. Our targeted services include home and community-based treatment, residential treatment programs, group homes, and special education schools. MPA is known for its ability to achieve successful outcomes with difficult-to-serve individuals throughout New England.

Mission :

MPA's mission is to provide a caring, safe therapeutic environment where students have the opportunity to grow and acquire the skills they need to reach their educational and social potential. We aim to develop trusting relationships with students and facilitate experiences that promote their ability to self-regulate; manage thoughts and feelings; and develop feelings of safety, confidence, and competency.

Awake Overnight Counselor Responsibilities & Opportunities :

Responsible for service delivery to the students in accordance with program goals and each students' Individual Treatment Plan. Connection with students is our primary means to gain understanding, compassion, and forge treatment progress. Providing meaningful and life-relevant programming with engages youth is our primary means of facilitating a positive program culture and making treatment progress possible for our students.

Awake Overnight Responsibilities

• Provide 100% supervision of our students and maintain their safety throughout the overnight shift.
• Assist second shift faculty in the completion of bedtime routine.
• Prepare students for the day during wake up routine and hygiene to ensure seamless transition to first shift.
• Seek information pertinent to students' acute issue which may affect the overnight.
• Conduct fifteen-minute bed-checks with compassion and in accordance with policy.
• Provide floating crisis support to students engaging in unsafe behaviors

Encourage student success and engage students

Facilitate the residential routine with intention and thoughtful planning.

Understand and apply knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and mental health in the execution of the program's residential treatment model.

Professionally document service delivery and behavior-related incidents in a timely manner, such as :

Act as a professional, and seek professional improvement

Benefits (Full-time) :

Qualifications :

Other Requirements :

Application Process : By applying to the position you will let our team know you are interested. We are currently hiring, and we will reach out shortly to set up a time for an interview.

MPA assures equal opportunity and public access and, if necessary, affirmative action in all its policies regarding employment and provision of services. MPA does not discriminate in its hiring, programs, or policies on the bases of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.

Mount Prospect Academy strongly recommends, but does not require, that all MPA faculty (employees) stay protected against COVID-19 by getting their primary vaccine series and stay up to date with a booster dose if they are eligible to receive one.

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