Careers With a Heart and Soul

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

Please scroll down 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.
• COVID Protocols: We are interviewing candidates who are either fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, in the process of completing the vaccination process, or who will commit to getting vaccinated if hired. Wellspring is dedicated to keeping our staff and residents safe through the COVID-19 pandemic. We practice social distancing; we follow all of the CDC recommendations for a residential setting.
  Salary: $17.50 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 (30hrs or more) benefit package includes medical, dental, disability, life insurance and generous paid time off.
• Part time (20-29 hrs) benefit package includes paid time off.
• This position is eligible for overtime compensation.

We are seeking LPNs or RNs for per diem coverage and a potential 20 hour position. We are now interviewing and hiring per diem nurses for all shifts primarily to help provide coverage for call outs and scheduled leave of current staff. Ability to provide some overnight/3rd shift coverage will be helpful.

Coverage needed in our residential programs for adolescent girls. Some of the presenting diagnoses are: attachment disorder, eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, borderline personality disorder, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.

• LPN or RN required.
• Experience with residential programs: helpful but not required.
• Salary: Competitive. Shift differentials for overnight and weekend shifts are paid in addition to hourly rate.

We are recruiting for one opening in the Girls Residential Program, known as Shiloah House.

Shiloah is a cozy living space with eight beds for our residential program for girls ages 12-16. You can learn more about this program, and see program related videos by visiting the Program and Services on our homepage.

CURRENT OPENING:

• Position Title:  Milieu Counselor I
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40hrs)

COMPENSATION and BENEFITS:

• Benefits: Full health (medical, dental, disability and life insurance)  and our generous paid time off package. Paid Time off starts with 240 hrs. per calendar year and increases with service. The first increase to 280hrs per year occurs at the start of the third year of employment.
• Compensation: Base rate: starting at $17.50/hr. increased to $17.75/hr. at successful completion of the 3 month onboarding/orientation period.
• Eligible for overtime: Yes.
• Eligible for shift differentials: Yes. This position’s shift schedule has a built in period that automatically receives the extra compensation for the Weekend differential of $2/hr.  If at anytime the staff member works beyond 10:30pm the Overnight differential of $2/hr. will be added to the base rate.
• Additional compensation: Holiday differential ($1/hr.) for 7 designated holidays. This differential is applied to: President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, 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, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
• Are differentials stackable for this position?: Yes. For example, Friday, Saturday and Sunday overnights receive both weekend and overnight differentials, resulting in an additional $4/hr. above the base rate.

SHIFT SCHEDULE: Four 10-hour shifts, 4 days on duty, 3 days off each week. Shifts cover afternoons and evenings on 3 weekdays, 1 weekend day.

• Mondays: 12 noon- 10pm
• Tuesdays: 11am to 9am
• Wednesdays: 11am to 9pm **
• Saturdays: 12 noon to 10pm
• ** Wednesday afternoons include the program’s weekly staff meeting.

In addition to the general requirements for a residential counselor (see General Information above)…Our Ideal Candidate for this position has one or both of these:

• interest in working outdoors- gardening, animal care, camping
• interest/willingness to cook and/or do food prep

The Interview process at Wellspring is designed to learn more about your interests, and about you as a potential employee and  counselor and, importantly, as a person… and for you to learn more about us!

We are recruiting for one opening in the Adult Women Residential Program, known as Angelus House.

Angelus is set on 10 acres and residents live in a charming seven bedroom home with a delightful front porch, large living room with a working fireplace, beautiful perennial and organic vegetable gardens and a kitchen with an adjoining dining room where residents eat their meals together. The program is licensed for 10 beds. You can learn more about this program, and see program related videos by visiting the Program and Services on our homepage.

CURRENT OPENING:

• Position Title:  Milieu Counselor I
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40hrs)

COMPENSATION and BENEFITS:

• Benefits: Full health (medical, dental, disability and life insurance)  and our generous paid time off package. Paid Time off starts with 240 hrs. per calendar year and increases with service. The first increase to 280hrs per year occurs at the start of the third year of employment.
• Compensation: Base rate: starting at $17.50/hr. increased to $17.75/hr. at successful completion of the 3 month onboarding/orientation period.
• Eligible for overtime: Yes.
• Eligible for shift differentials: Yes. This position’s shift schedule has built in periods that automatically receive the extra compensation for the Weekend differential of $2/hr. for two shifts each two payroll period.  If at anytime the staff member works beyond 10:30pm the Overnight differential of $2/hr. will be added to the base rate.
• Additional compensation: Holiday differential ($1/hr.) for 7 designated holidays. This differential is applied to: President’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, 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, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
• Are differentials stackable for this position?: Yes. For example, Friday, Saturday and Sunday overnights receive both weekend and overnight differentials, resulting in an additional $4/hr. above the base rate.

SHIFT SCHEDULE: Four 10-hour shifts, 4 days on duty, 3 days off each week. Shifts cover primarily days, one shift during the week covers an afternoon and evening.  3 weekday shifts, 1 weekend shift.  The shift schedule is a two-week schedule that allows for every other weekend off.

• Week One: Sundays 8am to 6pm, Mondays: 8am to 6am, Tuesdays: 12 noon to 10pm and Thursdays: 8am to 6pm
• Week Two: Mondays: 8am to 6am, Tuesdays: 12 noon to 10pm, Thursdays: 8am to 6pm and Saturdays:10am to 8pm

In addition to the general requirements for a residential counselor (see General Information above)…Our Ideal Candidate for this position has one or both of these:

• interest in working outdoors- outdoors, adventure and land/animal programs.

The Interview process at Wellspring is designed to learn more about your interests, and about you as a potential employee and  counselor and, importantly, as a person… and for you to learn more about us!

Details coming… stay tuned… and check back!