Career Opportunities

Work with the Boys

 

To apply for any position please complete our general application below, which will include a space to upload the required resume and cover letter.

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Thank you for helping us to respect the confidential nature of the work we do.

Current Openings

Director of Residential Care

We are seeking a master-level full time Director of Residential Care with 5+ years of managerial experience in child welfare and/or residential treatment. The Managing Director of Resident Care is a member of a 4-person executive leadership team and serves as the leader and voice of our residential programs; is responsible for promoting the health and wellbeing of each resident and for promoting the driving force of our work:  to provide a safe and secure environment for youth to heal from past trauma, abuse, and/or neglect; drives the development, the training, and the supervision provided to staff utilizing the implementation of trauma informed best practice models; i.e. CPI and Collaborative Problem Solving.

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:

  • Promotes Performance and Quality Improvement in service delivery of agency programs.
  • Promotes a Culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and a Commitment to Customer Service. 
  • Creates an organizational dashboard to measure and track youth outcomes, family outcomes, and impact outcomes. 
  • Actively collect, use, and share data within the organization and externally as a tangible demonstration of residential intervention effectiveness.
  • Implements on-going behavioral training for staff about trauma, on how to recognize client and personal triggers when behaviors are exhibited in the program, on potential crises, and how to de-escalate difficult situations.
  • Conducts random viewing of surveillance and uses activities noted as a training tool for improvement or as a way to celebrate successful display of interventions. 
  • Works with Managing Director of Clinical Services to ensure both clinical and residential staff work in concert to develop crisis or behavior improvement plans on each resident.
  • On occasion, works on all shifts to understand operational obstacles, shift needs, and advance change through effective modeling for employees so that short-term lengths of stay and successful work with families could be achieved. 
  • Schedules meetings with those working each shift to develop a stronger transition for handing off and accepting responsibility for the upcoming shift. 

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

  • Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 – $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Work Location: One location

 

Licensed Therapist

We are hiring for a Full Time Therapist for 18 bed PRTF program for boys ages 6-16; located in Awendaw SC. The primary purpose of the position is to provide individual, family, and group therapy to the Therapists’ case load, build and maintain treatment alliances with clients and client families to foster change.

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:

  • Provides individual, family, and group therapy for client population.
  • Completes diagnostic assessments, individual plans of care, and participates in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings.
  • Adheres to accreditation and Medicaid standards of care.
  • Establishes positive, trusting rapport with clients.
  • Maintains thorough records of patient meetings and progress.
  • Follows all safety protocols and maintains client confidentiality.

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

  • Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field
  • Current with all state licensing requirements, including LPCC, LICSW and LMFT

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

  • Psychiatry

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

COVID-19 considerations:
Yes. Washing hands, wearing mask,

License/Certification:

  • Driver’s License (Required)
  • LPC, LISW, LMFT (Required)

Work Location: One location

Part Time Licensed Therapist

We are hiring for a Part Time Therapist for our group home for boys ages 6-16; located in Awendaw SC. The primary purpose of the position is to provide individual and group therapy to the Therapists’ case load, build and maintain treatment alliances with clients to foster change.

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:

  • Provides individual, family, and group therapy for client population.
  • Completes diagnostic assessments, individual plans of care, and participates in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings.
  • Adheres to accreditation and Medicaid standards of care.
  • Establishes positive, trusting rapport with clients.
  • Maintains thorough records of patient meetings and progress.
  • Follows all safety protocols and maintains client confidentiality.

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

  • Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field
  • Current with all state licensing requirements, including LPCC, LICSW and LMFT

Job Type: Full-time

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

  • Psychiatry

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

COVID-19 considerations:
Yes. Washing hands, wearing mask,

License/Certification:

  • Driver’s License (Required)
  • LPC, LISW, LMFT (Required)

Work Location: One location

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 $18.00 per hour

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)

Work Location: One location

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.

The Application

 

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    Not all listed positions may be open at this time. Please see above for open opportunities.