Residential Counselor

Position

Teacher/Counselor (Residential Counselor)

532

Norwood

56 hours -
Thursday 1pm to 9am, Friday 2pm to 10pm, Saturday 12pm to 9am, Sunday 9am to 4pm

This role supports women in a residential setting and involves providing hands‑on personal care, emotional support, and daily living assistance in a trauma‑informed, dignity‑centered environment. This position is assigned to a single‑gender residential program and requires compliance with same‑gender staffing guidelines.

• Promotes optimal health for individuals through routine, preventive, and emergency health care.
• Assists with all hands‑on direct care, including showering, toileting, shaving, brushing teeth, and meal‑time assistance.
• Ensures that residential environments are safe, secure, and free from harm.
• Provides education, training, counseling, and physical assistance to achieve ISP goals in functional academics, domestic skills, health and personal hygiene, social and leisure skills, communication skills, community mobility, self‑esteem, and money management.
• Develops, writes, and presents annual ISPs and semi‑annual assessments in consultation with other residential staff and directors.
• Provides transportation to individuals as necessary.
• Communicates with persons significant to the individual served (family, friends, guardians, funding sources, advocates, volunteers, employers) to facilitate consistency of programming and support.
• Performs case management duties, including maintenance of confidential files, case reviews, documentation of activities, and training, and attends regular meetings as necessary.

• Experience working with individuals with /DD.
• A Bachelor’s degree or an associate degree in a related field with two years of experience, or an HS diploma and five years of related work experience in Human Services.
• Must be able to pass Fingerprint background check, CORI, DPPC, and Driving background checks.
• Valid Driver’s License required.
• Valid MAP certification preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• 403(B) matching up to 3%
• $2,000 Staff Retention Bonus after 1 year
• Health Insurance with 2 plan choices and a 75% employer contribution
• 4.4 weeks of Paid Time Off in first year of employment
• Long‑Term Disability insurance & Life Insurance free for employees
• Flexible spending account

Lifeworks, Inc. believes diversity strengthens the value of our workplace and communities. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This job profile identifies the general duties and minimum level of skills required to perform this job. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned. The employee can be responsible for all other duties as assigned by supervisor. Employment at Lifeworks is on an at‑will basis. This means that the employee or employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason or for no reason and with or without prior notice.

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