Career Opportunities
Work with the Boys
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Current Openings
Direct Care Worker – Residential Treatment Facility (Overnight)
About Windwood:
Windwood Family Services provides two residential programs on its farm campus: a group home the serves up to 15 boys at a time, and a psychiatric residential therapy facility serving up to 12 boys at a time. Additionally, Windwood maintains an outpatient clinic that houses our community-based prevention services and provides therapy.
Summary:
Our Direct Care Teammates provide care and behavioral interventions for boys (Aged 6-16) who have been placed with the agency due to emotional or behavioral difficulties, psychiatric disorders, or the need for crisis stabilization due to exposure to traumatic events and/or abuse. This person will work alongside the multi-disciplinary mental health team to support therapeutic interventions and monitor basic physical needs of residents.
To be successful in this role, the candidate will demonstrate compassion while also maintaining personal boundaries with residents. They will have a background in working with children or high stress environments and positions. A strong candidate has an understanding of mental health challenges.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Participates in fostering a therapeutic environment by following facility procedures and boundaries. Follows policy and procedures regarding monitoring in high risk areas, complies with applicable procedures for physical intervention (personal restraints) in the event of emergency situations.
- Models appropriate social and life skills to assist residents in learning independent living skills.
- Provides required documentation of behavior and activity in behaviorally specific language; meets required timelines for documentation, according to policy.
- Builds trusting and supportive relationships with youth through acts of concern, pleasantness, and fairness.
Minimum Job Requirements
- Education in child development, psychology, behavioral health, social work, public health, or related, preferred.
- Experience working with children, preferred.
- Ability to demonstrate tolerance to work under challenging conditions, including constant interruptions, inappropriate behaviors, and potential verbal and physical threats from youth residents.
- Ability to resolve conflict during crisis situations.
- Ability to work on a team and communicate with a diverse professional staff, resident population, and co-workers.
- Education in child development, psychology, behavioral health, social work, public health, or related preferred.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From $20.00 with degree $19.00 without degree
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Evening shift
- Night shift
- Overnight shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Awendaw, SC 29429: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Shift availability:
- Night Shift (Required)
- Overnight Shift (Required)
- All shifts available for full time and part time work
- shifts available 8:00am-8:00pm 8:00p-8:00am and PRN
Work Location: One location
Residential Services Floor Supervisor
We are seeking a Residential Services Floor Supervisor
Full Time hourly position with benefits (state health plan), Wed-Sat 11:00am-9:00pm 20 PDO 7 paid holidays, 56 hours of “you pick the personal days”
Qualifications: must possess master degree and 3 years prior to experience in a residential program supervisory role.
About Windwood:
Windwood Family Services provides help, hope, and healing through behavioral, educational, and therapeutic interventions which enhance social functioning and well-being, ensure safety, and work to achieve positive permanency for children and families in our community.
Job Responsibilities:
The Floor supervisor is the lead staff in managing all daily activities of the direct care staff and the youth who are placed in our residential treatment program. Ensures new staff members receive frequent supervision, which includes training in the basic aspects of the job. The frequency and intensity of supervision is adjusted individually for the new employee by the onboarding process’s review of agency philosophy and mission, review of agency policies, and by direct on the job training and mentoring to prepare them to assume the job duties.
Supervises Direct Care Staff in their interactions with youth while carrying out their activities of daily living (ADL), in the development of pro-social skills, in accordance with their needs, age and developmental level, and in adhering to the youth’ individualized treatment plan developed by the program therapist. Ensures direct care staff’s interactions with program residents promote optimum outcomes for safety, well-being, and permanency.
The Floor Supervisor must be ready to intervene when staff behaviors are not appropriate when working with youth, i.e. using demeaning or threatening language, violation of physical boundaries, using cell phone during work hours, sleeping on the job, denying youth food, hydration, or use of bathroom.
The floor supervisor assumes responsibility for introducing new residents to the program and works to make them feel comfortable in their new surroundings; introduces them to the direct care staff who will be working with them, and to the other residents in the program. They review the daily schedule and house rules with the youth the day they arrive. They must give the new resident a tour of the property and buildings. They review the client handbook, explain behavior expectations, and ensure the youth have all essential personal needs items, clothing, bedding, and school supplies.
Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:
- Master’s degree
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Education: Master’s Degree
Important Disclaimers
Equal Employment Opportunity
Windwood Family Services is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and potential employees. Windwood’s recruitment, hiring and promotion practices, as well as other circumstances relating to employment are maintained and conducted in a manner that does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
Commitment to Diversity/Cultural Competency
Windwood Family Services embraces agency-wide practices and procedures that reflect a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of ethnic and cultural differences and that provide a framework for eliminating bias from its services and programs.
Pre-Employment Screenings
Pre-employment drug screens required on all prospective employees. SLED, Central Registry, DMV, and State and Federal Sex Offender Registry will be completed prior to all employment offers.
For more information or to ask a question, contact:
Michelle Dawkins
Director of Human Resources and Payroll Services
843-371-6226
michelle.dawkins@windwoodfarm.org