Group Home Counselor

Overview

Pay Rate: $18-21.25 Hourly

* Rates are based on total years of work experience with Adult IDD populations*

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we’re here to create real change — helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we’re looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives — including your own. You’ll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
• Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
• Paid On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
• Flexible Schedules
• Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Group Home Counselor, Group Home Techs & Group Home Behavior Techs provide supervision, guidance, instruction, and/or skill building to assigned individuals supported within the individual’s residence and/or assigned program site regarding daily living activities, health, safety, well-being, vocational activities, and interaction with others.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages, supervises, instructs, supports, and provides guidance to assigned individuals served in accordance with the individual’s support plan, and works daily toward the designated outcomes while continuously emphasizing community integration in all activities, functions, and aspects of life, including but not limited to:
• personal healthcare
• personal hygiene including but not limited to baths, showers, oral hygiene, personal care, nail and hair grooming
• religious preferences
• sexual preferences
• ethnic and cultural support
• recreational/leisure/socialization activities
• physical fitness
• healthy living
• family visits and involvement, and family disagreements and grievances
• independence
• purchase and inventory of food and personal supplies
• meal preparation that may include planning the menu, observing any dietary restrictions, shopping for the necessary items, and cooking and serving the meal
• housekeeping and cleaning which may include bed making, vacuuming, dusting, folding and organizing
• management of his/her clothing maintenance including but not limited to laundering, mending and ironing
• money and financial management including but not limited to money recognition, short term and long-term budgeting, banking and bill paying
• social awareness including but not limited to table manners, telephone skills, and social etiquette
• interpersonal relationships
• employment and/or vocational responsibilities, behavior, and performance
• safety and response to emergencies, including but not limited to fire alarms