Overnight Residential Youth Counselor

WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC • Barre Town, VT

1d • $24 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

Overnight Residential Youth Counselors provide safety, structure, and emotional support for youth with significant emotional and behavioral challenges during some of the most difficult times in their lives. By building trusting relationships and creating a calm, home-like environment, you help youth feel secure, supported, and ready to work toward permanency and stability. This role is especially critical during evening and overnight hours, when consistency, responsiveness, and thoughtful intervention can make a meaningful difference in a young person’s sense of safety and well-being.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human services or a related field preferred.
• Relevant experience working with youth with emotional or behavioral challenges may be considered in lieu of formal education.
• Ability to build positive, respectful relationships with youth.
• Flexibility and adaptability to respond to the changing needs of youth and residential settings.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to remain calm in high-stress situations.
• Willingness to learn and apply crisis de-escalation and passive restraint techniques.
• Experience providing direct instruction or therapeutic services to youth with challenging behaviors preferred.
• Ability to deliver services and complete treatment notes in English.
• Must maintain appropriate insurance coverage for personal vehicle use.

Nice To Haves

• Experience providing direct instruction or therapeutic services to youth with challenging behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Provide overnight and evening supervision in a residential home for youth with significant emotional and behavioral needs.
• Identify potential risk situations and use de-escalation strategies to support youth safely.
• Implement individualized behavior and crisis plans consistently and compassionately.
• Provide supportive counseling and therapeutic interventions during nighttime hours as needed.
• Maintain familiarity with each youth’s needs, triggers, and goals to support effective intervention.
• Complete required documentation each shift, including logs, medication entries, point sheets, and timesheets.
• Provide transportation for youth as assigned, using a personal vehicle when required.

Benefits

• health
• dental
• vision
• retirement
• generous paid time off package
• flexible holidays
• 12 vacation days in year one

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level