Careers With a Heart and Soul

Residential (Milieu) Counselors: Full Time, Part Time and Per Diem- General Information.

Please scroll below for more information about specific open positions and their shift schedules.

Our team of milieu counselors foster healthy relationships by helping center the ‘family’ experience in residential living. They are kind, mindful and emotionally equipped to hold space for our residents to continue to grow and heal. These college graduate front line people help residents process a confusing conversation, encourage them to learn a new skill or take on a new responsibility, work with our farm animals, share their unique gifts (such as knitting, cooking, playing games) or sit quietly with our residents to help them settle into their own place and space. We offer full time, part time and per diem positions to support resident population.

• Educational Background: BA/BS in Psychology or related field preferred. Candidates with an earned two-year degree considered. Must have a minimum of 60 college credits earned.
• Experience: Two years or more of experience working in a therapeutic field preferred. Prior experience working with girls and/or young adult women desirable.
• Salary: $20.60 per hour (base hourly rate), plus shift differentials for weekend and overnight hours. Shift differentials can add $2 to $4/hour to the base rate.
• Full time (30 hrs or more) benefit package includes medical, dental, disability, life insurance, retirement savings with employer match, and generous paid time off.
• Part time (20-29 hrs.) benefit package includes paid time off and retirement savings with employer match.
• This position is eligible for overtime compensation.
• Additional compensation : Holiday differential ($1/hr.) for 7 designated holidays. This differential is applied to: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and October Fall Weekend Monday.
• Additional compensation: Holiday Pay (1.5 times base rate) for 3 designated holidays. The Holiday Pay is applied to: New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
• Generous Paid Time off package, that increases with years of service for positions with 20 hrs or more.

Academic Year 2025-2026

The Arch Bridge School at Wellspring has 2 openings for a credentialed and/or certified School Clinician for our state approved, and NEASC accredited special education school. We are seeking to identify and hire for the 2025-2026 academic year.

We are looking for: A School Clinician to support our upper school classrooms.

The Arch Bridge School offers core academics, allowing students to meet their unique academic objectives while in Residential Treatment or as students attending our Therapeutic Day School. The Arch Bridge School has a long history of success in serving children with emotional, psychological and learning vulnerabilities and issues. Emphasis in school is placed on providing a positive learning experience, resolving school-related issues, and preparing the student to return to their home school better able to function successfully.

The therapeutic dimension of the program offers a comprehensive exploration of the student’s individual uniqueness while developing self-reliance, problem solving skills, socialization, and the ability to manage anger and stress. The fundamental approach of the school is to develop a personal relationship with each student and family, within a clearly defined structure of expectations.

Our most successful school staff members have a relational and experiential approach to their work and thrive in a nurturing environment. We offer an opportunity to provide support in small, classroom settings, to be part of a clinical team and to interact with students individually and in group settings. Our small setting allows our school staff the chance to provide relational classrooms where each student is known as an individual. Our staff are truly able to make a difference in their students’ lives.

Required Certification:

· Masters level with either earned LCSW or LMFT

· – or CT state certified School Social Worker

· – or CT state certified School Counselor

Experience with learning disabilities, special education and/or therapeutic school environment desired and helpful.

With, or without, experience in a setting like ours, you have:
– a strong commitment to clinical/therapeutic work
– the ability to work well…individually, and as part of a very talented team,
– an interest in developing new skills, or enhancing existing ones, while working with students with interesting educational and emotional scenarios.

All of these attributes make you a good candidate for this position.

Please visit our website www.wellspring.org to learn more about the Arch Bridge School, Wellspring and the application process.

If you are interested we would like to hear from you.

Please submit your resume and a cover letter.

Are you looking for a rewarding career? Looking to make an impact in someone’s life? Does helping others motivate you? Then we would like to hear from you! Wellspring is a premiere mental health residential treatment program for adolescent girls and gender diverse individuals ages 14-18.

We are looking to hire dedicated professionals for day, evening and night shifts at this time. Weekends required.

Responsibilities:

• To support the milieu, in a non-institutional, family modeled setting, with the ability to be personally responsive to the residents in your care.
• Contribute to and be a part of a community that helps and models healthy living to prepare the residents to meet the realistic demands of returning to their families and their communities.
• Assist, as a team member to clinical staff, to provide a structured environment with professional supervision of daily activities to counteract the debilitating effects of internal emotional disorders the residents are facing.
• Follow a program structure that is flexibly responsive to the resident’s needs and abilities while they navigate through their daily therapies, responsibilities and recreational activities.

Position Details:

• Position Title: Milieu Counselor I
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40 hours), Part Time (32 hours), or Per Diem

Shift Schedule:

Shifts / schedules to be discussed during initial pre-employment screening process. Weekends are required.

Qualifications:

• Earned BA/BS in Psychology or related field (preferred)
• Experience working in a therapeutic field and/or prior experience working with adolescent girls and/or adult women is desirable

Relevant experience may be substituted for educational requirements.

Salary and Benefits:

Base hourly rates start at $20.60 per hour, plus shift differentials for weekend, holiday, and overnight hours. Shift differentials can add $2/hr. to $4/hr. to the base rate. Employees working 30+ hours are eligible for health benefits,  20+ hours are eligible for PTO, and all employees are eligible for our retirement plan.

• Health benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance)
• Generous paid time off benefit
• Retirement Savings with Employer Matching

Please read more about Wellspring, our programs, and the application process by visiting our homepage www.wellspring.org

Wellspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer.