Careers With a Heart and Soul

About The Arch Bridge School:

The Arch Bridge School is part of Wellspring, a therapeutic and educational center in the rural, northwest corner of Connecticut (Litchfield County.) The school serves the educational needs of both residential and day students.

The Arch Bridge School offers core academics and college preparatory courses, allowing students to meet their unique academic objectives while in Residential Treatment or as students attending our Therapeutic Day School. Our students tend to be bright, creative and college bound.

Our most successful teachers have an experiential approach to learning and thrive when able to teach in a kind, nurturing environment. We offer an opportunity to teach in small, well-supported classroom settings. Class size tends to be 4-8 students but does not exceed twelve (12) students. We have multiple clinicians on staff to provide immediate support throughout the day. This allows our teachers the chance to provide a creative, challenging, relational classroom where each student is known as an individual. Our teachers are part of a cohesive team that collaborate regularly with each other and our students and are truly able to make a difference in their lives.

Position Details:

Position Title: Physical Education (P.E.) and Health Teacher
Employment Agreement Type: Part Time (8 – 16 hours per week)

Salary and Benefits:

From $25.00 per hour

• Generous paid time off benefit
• Retirement Savings with Employer Matching

Shift Schedule:

• Classes are held during the regular school hours (7:30 am – 2:00 pm)
• Scheduling for all P.E./Health classes are flexible

Required Certifications:

• Connecticut Certification, Physical Education, PreK-12 (044)
  Candidates in the process of working towards this certification may also be considered.

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 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.

About Shiloah House:

We are recruiting for a part-time position 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. Shiloah is known for its living room with a working fireplace, a spacious kitchen to share meals and do homework, as well as its backyard with a covered deck, swings, and fruitful vegetable garden. Much like our other programs, Shiloah provides many activities for the residents that include land and animal programs, adventure activities, and off-grounds outings.

You can learn more about this program, and see program related videos by visiting the Program and Services on our homepage.

Position Details:

Position Title: Milieu Counselor I
Employment Agreement Type: Part Time (24 hours)

Salary and Benefits:

Base hourly rates start at $20 per hour, plus shift differentials for weekend, holiday, and overnight hours. Shift differentials can add $2/hr. to $4/hr. to the base rate.

• Generous paid time off benefit
• Retirement Savings with Employer Matching

Shift Schedule:

• Sundays, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
• Fridays, 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
• Saturdays, 7:00 am – 4:00 pm

In addition to the general requirements for a residential counselor (see General Information above), this program is seeking candidates who have interests being active and engaged in both outdoor and indoor activities.

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!