Night watch - PT (Tuesday and Wednesday Nights)

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...

• Great position for college students
• Already love supporting people with different learning abilities 
• Want a good part-time job in the off-hours from your other life endeavors
• Want to work with a strong and supportive team focused on ethical, personal, and professional growth of both clients and employees
• Align with our philosophies around an attachment approach to care - focusing on core needs and relationships with our students over just a behavioral approach
  

Schedule 

• 10:45PM to 7:15AM.
• Shifts available: Tuesday and Wednesday Nights
  
• Opportunity for advancement to Full-Time work (many of our Managers have worked the Night Watch position at certain point).
• Opportunity for other night hours that may come up throughout the week.

Education Requirement 

• High School Diploma or equivalent 

Additional Minimum Requirements 

• Age 21 , or turning 21 within the next few months (to operate company vehicles)

• Ability to pass background check upon hire 

Essential Responsibilities and Duties 

• Attend all required training meetings 
• Maintain an up-to-date training record 

• Achieve and maintain certification in CPR and First Aid upon hire 
• Achieve and maintain certification in Positive Control Systems (PCS) upon hire 
• Provide a safe and nurturing environment for clients 
• Implement therapeutic interventions for each client  
• Complete 15 minute bedroom checks on students as they sleep, as required by licensing requirements 

• Complete a safety walk through of the facility at the start of your shift and account for all students 
• Attend shift change at start of shift to become familiar with the day’s incidents for each student.  Know who is on campus and who is off-campus.   
• Be attentive to students on safety statuses; follow protocols with exactness 
• Chart on each student at the end of shift.  Indicate sleep patterns, whether they got up in the night, any incidents of importance 
• Keeps up-to-date with weekly treatment team notes on each student 

• Has the ability to pay attention to details and is aware of what is going on around them at all times 
• Is able to keep personal feelings and emotions from influencing decisions around client’s treatment 
• Receptive to constructive feedback and training

Additional Responsibilities and Duties 

• Completes light cleaning duties and other house/program chores as assigned 
• Supports the night watch lead and other night watch mentors  
• Must be flexible and able to help out where necessary (within pre-determined float availability)
• Be a team player 
• Dependable, reliable, receive and carry out instruction, and genuinely care for others 

• Other duties as assigned 

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 

Salary : $16 - $18