Job Description

Relief Residential Counselor - Quincy

• SATURDAY 7am-12pm; SUNDAY 3pm-11pm

Are you a caring person, dedicated to committing high quality care who wants to become part of an innovative, energetic, strategically focused community social services agency? If so, you should consider joining our
 team of caring and friendly Residential Counselors in Quincy, MA!

Granite House is a community-based group home in Quincy, MA for adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 years old that have been referred by the Department of Mental Health (DMH) or the Department of Children and Families (DCF). The program focuses on stabilizing a youth's mental health symptoms through evidence-based, and trauma-informed care practices through systematic treatment and intervention thus enabling
adolescents to improve their social/emotional functioning, functional coping skills and community safety in order to achieve their greatest potential and return home to family, friends, and community. Staff are
required to participate and engage in daily activities with youth such as homework time, teaching and coaching through daily living skills, participating in physical activities (basketball, running, YMCA, etc),
cooking, building therapeutic rapport and coping skills, transporting and engaging in activities in the community as well as implementing the behavior management system. 

This position offers flexible hours!

Relief Residential Counselors work shifts on an as needed basis.

Bay State Community Services is dedicated to hiring and retaining hard working and caring employees who strive to partner with clients and the community in the most direct, honest and whole-hearted manner possible.

Ways we show our employees that we care:

• By fostering a caring, flexible environment resulting in outstanding employee retention
• By promoting an environment where employees feel comfortable talking to their supervisors
• By maintaining excellent communication and interaction between departments and with satellite locations
• By offering generous vacation and holiday time (3 weeks of vacation and 11 paid holidays in your first year of employment!)
• By
   supporting our employees professional growth by promoting from within,
  offering supervision towards licensure and trainings with free CEU’s
• By offering our employees high quality medical and dental plans that are affordable
• By helping our employees save for their retirement with a flexible 403b plan and liberal employer contributions
• By recognizing the importance of hiring employees with lived experience
• By offering a generous referral bonus to employees who refer new quality members to our team

Full or prorated benefits available for positions that require a regular schedule of 24 hours or more per week. Background checks are required for all staff, volunteers and interns.

The ways in which we distinguish ourselves from similar organizations:

• Collectively our senior management team has worked for BSCS for over 50 years in
  different levels of the organization and they have dedicated their careers to doing the same work that you have.
• Many of our programs offer assistance based on need, regardless of ability to pay.
• BSCS has long understood that services must be aligned and integrated at the local level in order to be responsive to the unique needs of individuals, families and communities.

If you want to work for an organization that cares about its clients and employees as much as you do then Bay State Community Services is the right place for you!

Relief Residential Counselor - Quincy