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
Chief Organizational Excellence Officer
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.
JOB PURPOSE: Serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Manages and implements HIPAA, Performance and Quality Improvement, development and execution of agency key performance indicators and contract compliance. Review, revise, retire policies; collaborates with CEO and department chiefs on COA re-accreditation, Logic Model, existing state fee for service contract requirements, SCSCDSS and DPH licensing requirements, Federal CMS and SC Medicaid standards. Directs compliance and utilization review department; provides oversight to nurse manager.
FTE with Health Benefit Package, salaried position $90,000
Education requirements: Master level licensed professional- LISW-CP, LPC or NP with 5 years’ experience
Provides Direct supervision: to Nurse Manager and Compliance and Utilization Review Supervisors
Reports directly to agency CEO
Board Certified Behavior Analyst/Assistant Director of Residential Care Programs
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.
Core Responsibilities:
Assessment: Conduct Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs) and skill assessments (e.g., VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R) to understand behavior triggers and skill deficits.
Plan Development: Create individualized Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) and ABA programs based on assessment data.
Implementation & Monitoring: Oversee the fidelity of plan implementation, collect and analyze data, and adjust plans as needed.
Consultation & Training: Train staff and parents/primary caregivers on behavior management, positive supports. Skillset needed: Possesses strong data analysis and interpretation.
FTE with Health Benefit Package salaried $90,000.00
Education requirements: Master level Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Provides oversight to Direct Care Staff/RBT; Behavior Intervention and Training Managers; Permanency Care Coordinators
Reports directly to Director of Residential Care Programs and Director of Clinical Services
Nurse Manager
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.
JOB PURPOSE: Licensed (NP or RN) responsible for providing oversight and management of the medical care for the facility’s residents. This position requires a combination of clinical expertise, strong administrative skills, and a commitment to trauma-informed care for youth. Maintains strong working relationship with members of the interdisciplinary treatment team and Medical Director. Supervises resident medical care and professional development on their team. Their role is to work as their direct supervisor, to maintain established nursing standards and enforces implementation of best practices when interacting with residents and in tracking their treatment. Delegate tasks to team members in efficiently processing the flow of residents through intake, care, and discharge. They follow the clinical staff’ lead on admission, transition, and discharge planning.
FTE salaried with Health Benefit Package, $90,000.00
Education requirements: licensed professional- NP or RN with no less than 5 year’s post licensure experience; experience in compliance preferred
Provides Direct supervision to Nurse Administrator, Nursing staff
Reports directly to Chief Organizational Excellence Officer
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