Full Time Direct Care Supervisor
About the role
When you join The Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to creating better, brighter futures for kids. For over 200 years, The Home for Little Wanderers has helped build stable lives and hopeful tomorrows for vulnerable children and their families. Our 25+ community-based and residential programs serve thousands of at-risk youths from birth to age 26. Many of these children have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or a disrupted family life. As the oldest child welfare agency in America, we provide them with safe surroundings, permanent loving relationships, and a secure path toward a better, brighter future. To learn more about the incredible impact our employees have on the lives of children and families, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXedSArtYbg
Responsibilities
- Hire, train, supervise, performance manage and evaluate direct care staff.
- Mediate staff issues and employee conflicts.
- Host team meetings for staff and provide training and weekly supervision.
- Organize and structure milieu shift.
- Maintain safety of clients in a residence; work closely with Milieu Director to support Program goals.
- Provide milieu therapy, instruct youth on daily living skills and serve as a youth advocate
Qualifications
- Equivalent to two years of college and/or two years child care experience in a residential setting with similar population of children
- BA/BS preferred
- 1+ year supervisory experience and prior experience with emotionally, behaviorally challenged children preferably in a residential treatment program desired
- Must possess a valid Mass Driver’s License
Benefits
- Generous time off including up to 15 days per year for new full-time employees, plus 11 holidays, and 5 sick days