Night Watch (Boys Youth Academy, Autism Spectrum)

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Dependent on experience

WHO WE ARE

Maple Lake Academy is a residential treatment center for adolescents (boys 13 to 18) on the autistic spectrum. Our students are high functioning dealing with deficits in social skills, life skills, inability to understand their own emotions or put their emotions into words. We provide a safe and nurturing home like environment for our students to learn skills that push them in the areas mentioned above. Our team works with our client population daily, hands on, and in one-on-one situations.

Maple Lake Academy setsourselves apart in the mental-health industry by using an attachment-based approach, focusing on relationship building and modeling what healthy, secure relationships look and feel like. We seek to create a safe environment for students and employees to learn, grow, develop, explore, make mistakes, and build lasting impactful relationships with those around them.

OVERVIEW

The Night Watch Mentor supports the residential department and the students during the night hours including checking on students every 15 minutes, ensuring they are able to sleep in a safe environment, supporting students if they wake up during the night and helping them return to bed, waking students up in the morning, and completing light cleaning duties.

This is a great opportunity for those who are looking for a low key and easy going position, like students attending college, or those who have night classes (we allow our graveyard employees to do homework, study, and or other projects as long as all job duties are completed), or even for parents who have students in school during the morning hours.

THIS ROLE IS PERFECT IF YOU...

• Are looking togain experienceworking with teens on the autism spectrum
• Alreadylove supporting peoplewith different learning abilities
• Want a goodpart-time job in the off-hoursfrom your other life endeavors
• Want to work with a strong andsupportive team focused on ethical, personal, and professional growthof both clients and employees
• Align with our philosophies around anattachment approach to care- focusing on core needs and relationships with our students over just a behavioral approach

HIGHLIGHTS

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Education Requirement

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Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Additional Responsibilities and Duties

An ATTACHMENT Approach

Most youth residential treatment programs use a behavioral approach to therapeutic and residential support, but we set ourselves apart for our students by using an attachment-based

approach. Everything we do is through the lens of attachment theory. As a member of the MLA team, you'll get great training in attachment styles, and how to best help teens in our program to build healthy relationships with themselves, their peers, and caregivers. Additionally, we focus on helping students identify the core issues behind their behaviors and thoughts, and then how to address those core needs. We seek to create a safe environment for students and employees to learn, grow, develop, explore, make mistakes, and build lasting impactful relationships with those around them.

Open until : Filled

Position Starts : available immediately

Interested applicants should apply to this posting, and you can expect an immediate email notification upon receipt of your application. Our hiring managers will reach out to candidates who appear to meet our needs within a few business days. If you don't see any emails come through upon submitting the application, or are awaiting a response from the hiring managers, check your SPAM folder. Sometimes emails from our application system get sent there.