Agency:
Legacy Treatment Services
Program:
Reily Community Residence for Children
Location:
Mount Holly, New Jersey
Position:
Residential Counselor
Contact:
Dominique Acevedo, Program Director, at DAcevedo@legacytreatment.org
Duties:
This Residential Treatment Center living unit is one of our largest, located on our main campus and serves eleven boys ages 11-18. The dorm style setting allows for frequent peer interaction, supervised team building projects, and group education in a non-threatening, supportive environment. All services are provided on-site where youth receive individual therapy, group therapy, allied therapies, employment training and intramural programming. In accordance with the Sanctuary Model, youth will use the pillars of democracy, social responsibility, and open communication by planning activity schedules with the residential manager that will be posted on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
The Residential Counselor will assist in providing a safe environment and positive residential treatment program within the residence. Assist in maintaining a positive, strength-based, developmentally appropriate therapeutic environment that is in keeping with the values and clinical treatment philosophy of Legacy Treatment Services.
- Keep vision of Consumers in home setting or as assigned
- Participate in therapeutically designed home and recreational activities
- Adhere to all Agency policies and procedures, licensing and accreditation standards
- Attend all required house, program and Agency meetings
- Provide all necessary documentation of Consumer behavior and interventions attempted, using approved Legacy format
- Participate as an active member of the Treatment Team
- Actively engages in all pre crisis and crisis interventions seeking to establish a positive outcome.
- Participate in quality improvement activities, including incident/accident/grievance review, peer record review, satisfaction surveys, program evaluation and quality improvement projects at the program level
- Participate in the house behavior modification system
- Assist with the transportation of Consumers in Agency vehicles
- May serve as a primary advocate for up to three Consumers
- Additional related duties as assigned by the Adolescent Residential Services Management Team
- May be required to work at alternate locations based on staffing needs
Your driver’s license must be in good standing, with no recent suspensions or violations of careless/reckless driving or excessive speeding of more than 10 MPH, and no more than 2 moving violations within the last 3 years.
Education/Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in a social science, psychology, education, child development or other closely related fields or, in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree, High School Diploma or GED and minimum of three (3) years’ experience working as a child care staff in a residential treatment center. Demonstrated computer skills and ability to work in multiple computer systems/environments.
Hours:
Full time and part time positions available. Must be able to work weekends, nights and holidays.