Awake Overnight Youth Counsellor, Lang
As an employer, PRI endeavours to create an environment where staff can reach their full potential through ongoing learning. Our workplace strives to embrace individual differences, to recognize, appreciate, and respond to uniqueness, to encourage every member of our team to bring their whole self to work.
Position: Full-Time Awake Overnight Youth Counsellor, 6-month contract
Vacancy
:
Existing role
Location: Orillia, ON
Start Date: Immediate
Reports to
:
Lang House Program Manager/Lang House Therapist
Salary: $25.72/hour
The ideal candidates will possess strong leadership, communication, an ability to maintain clear boundaries, positive role-modeling skills, and possess' a work style that embodies creativity and initiative.
Key Responsibilities- Ensuring the physical and emotional safety of students during the night through visual checks every 15 minutes
- Remaining awake through the night and respond to all emergencies and incidents
- Providing exceptional leadership, mentoring and positive relationships with students
- Contribute, as part of a multi-disciplinary therapeutic team to evaluate student progress by keeping up to date with training, organizational updates
- Daily life routines
- Help ensure the therapeutic goals of the program in general and the individual therapeutic plan for the students are realized
- Complete any assigned administrative support duties
- Complete any supportive housekeeping/maintenance duties as assigned
- Manage and de-escalate conflictual and/or crisis situations (ie: student disagreements, AWOLs, etc.)
- Other duties as required
- Demonstrated sound judgment, integrity, patience, commitment and a sense of humour
- Some experience with and training in child and youth care practices
- Demonstrated ability to be self-motivated and professional
- Demonstrated commitment to personal growth and development
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package and the opportunity to be part of an exciting and innovative program.
We thank all candidates who apply. Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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