Agency:
Legacy Treatment Services
Program:
Balance Community Home for Children
Location:
Lumberton, New Jersey
Position:
Residential Counselor
Contact:
Zach Oyefesobi, ARS Director at zoyefesobi@legacytreatment.org
Duties:
The Balance Community Home for Children serves youth with emotional challenges. In addition to housing, the five-bed home provides highly structured programming including therapy, psychiatric services, recreation, life skills, education assistance and socialization. An interdisciplinary service team utilizes a variety of evidence-based practices to facilitate recovery so that youth can become healthy, contributing members of society.
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:
Part time and full time positions available. Must be able to work weekends, nights and holidays.