Direct Support Professional - Paxton evenings

Description

$1,000 Sign On Bonus + $250 MAP cert. bonus

Base pay $19.53/hr. Could reach as high as $22.76/hr with 7+ years experience and a bachelors degree

Schedule:  M-W 3-11pm & Sunday 7am-11pm

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health – Massachusetts' STARR is an off campus group home located in Paxton, MA, and serves co-ed youth, ages 6 to 12, on a rapid reintegration care program. With a 1:3 staff to student ratio, identify and treat safety/risk factors, barrier behaviors, factors that precipitated placement, and facilitate reintegration of the youth to the family or next appropriate placement in the shortest time period possible, usually within a matter of days.

You will add value by:

Maintaining a safe and therapeutic treatment environment that meets the physical, emotional, and personal needs of program clients while improving functioning and minimizing interfering behaviors.

Providing client documentation to include shift reports, incident reports, and individual progress notes.

Keywords:  Youth Counselor, Direct Care Worker, Direct Care Counselor, Direct Service Worker, caregiver, dsp, Direct Support Professional, Residential Counselor, Mental Health Associate, Mental Health Technician, ASD, psychiatric services, inpatient, coaching, counseling, residential care, milieu, residential aide, human services, group home, monitor, mentor, mht, mental health technician, psychology, sociology, child welfare, social services, diploma, child care, behavioral technician, aba, rbt, mental health, autism

• • Full-Time Benefits include (but are not limited to):
    • 192 PTO hours/year plus 64 sick hours/year
    • Blue Cross PPO & High Deductible Insurance plans
    • FSA and HSA 
    • Short & Long Term Disability, Dental, Vision, accident, identity theft, pet and more insurance options
    • Tuition Reimbursement Program 
    • Student Loan Repayment through SAVI:  Full-time up to $5,200/yr, Part-time up to $2,600/yr
    • 403b retirement account with guaranteed 3% employer contribution and potential for additional 2% match
    • Free Life Insurance up to 2x annual salary, not to exceed $200,000
    • Free Employee Assistance Program for help with mental health, work-life balance, general-wellbeing, and more
    • Discounts on Hotels, Rental Cars, Theme Parks, Electronics & more

Qualifications

Job Qualifications:

• Must be 21 years of age or older
• Active driver’s license is required.
• High School diploma or GED. Bachelor's degree in Human Services, Psychology, Social Work, or Special Education preferred.
• Previous experience preferred (not required) working with individuals under 21 with psychological, emotional and behavioral disorders, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, and/or autism spectrum disorders.
• Must be MAPS certified, or able to obtain certification with 90 days of employment
• Must be able to attend a 2 week paid orientation, which runs Monday-Friday, 8AM to 4PM.
• Post orientation, the schedule is:M-W 3-11pm & Sunday 7am-11pm

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Place of work