Assistant Residential Director

Responsibilities

• Promotes the consistent achievement of Stetson School standards of care on the team.
• Ensures a safe and therapeutic milieu is provided at all times.
• Ensures that all staff model and demonstrate care giver qualities that treat all students with dignity and respect.
• Promotes staff interventions that support the Stetson School's ACORN approach.
• Ensures that team staff work within the Family Engagement model, and treat all family members and visitors with dignity and respect.
• Ensures that telephone and mail contact with family or other identified supportive adults in accordance with the individual service plan and program rules and standards.
• Prevents interactions that are not sanctioned within the rules, practices, and policies of Stetson School.
• Prevents actions and disparaging comments that may be considered horseplay, roughhousing, and/or derogatory comments and demeaning gestures.
• Makes sure staff to student interactions include professional boundaries, and responds to any concerns according to program procedures.
• Acts as a role model and reinforces pro-social behaviors and students and staff.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in human service management, clinical, social work, counseling, or related fields; and four to ten years related experience and/or training in sex offender treatment and/or residential management; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of collaborative, team oriented management styles, interdisciplinary teams, treatment planning, employment laws, regulations, policies and ethical concerns relating to confidentiality, reporting risk management, youth participation and confrontation, juvenile court systems, social systems, legal parameters, therapeutic/legal interface, and various theories of sexual deviance.