Ropes Course Facilitator

Saint Francis Ministries•Salina, KS

17h•Onsite

About The Position

This role plays a vital part in the daily operations of a residential facility, providing supervision and ensuring the safety of clients while fostering a therapeutic environment. The facilitator is responsible for ensuring that each client's treatment plan is actively integrated into their daily life. The position involves facilitating ropes course and adventure-based learning groups for clients, with a strong emphasis on group and course safety, including pre and post-group inspections, facilitation, setup, and takedown. The facilitator is tasked with properly setting up and inspecting the course and equipment, and instructing clients on their safe use. This role requires being a positive role model, directing activities, and empowering clients through "Challenge by Choice" to aid in their full potential development. The facilitator must handle stressful situations calmly and efficiently, understand emergency procedures, and respond professionally. They are responsible for supervising all course-related activities, directing and debriefing participants, and working collaboratively with a team for scheduling and operations. The role demands excellent communication skills to interact with diverse individuals and encourage communication among participants. The facilitator must exercise good judgment in independent decisions regarding the safe and effective use of the course, be available regularly, arrive on time, and maintain commitment to the course's success by following procedures. They will lead in developing appropriate element combinations to meet group goals, tailoring experiences to client capabilities, and preparing/storing equipment. The facilitator instructs groups on activity sequences and goals, cultivates learning in both technical and experiential aspects, and promotes constructive discussion to integrate learned experiences.

Requirements

Be a positive role model
Able to tie specific knots
Able to belay clients
Able to move from element to element
Able to climb structures as needed
Able to work both independently and with a team
Excellent communication skills are required
Adept at effectively communicating to a broad range of individuals from varied backgrounds and encouraging communication between others
Uses good judgment while making independent decisions regarding all facets of the safe and effective use of the course
Deals calmly and efficiently with stressful situations and people
Understands emergency procedures and is comfortable responding to situations in a professional AND calm demeanor

Responsibilities

Play a vital role in the day to day operation of the residential facility
Provide supervision and attend to the safety needs of the clients
Maintain a therapeutic environment
Ensure the treatment plan is a living document in the daily life of the client
Participate in the client’s daily planning routine
Supervise, coach, and mentor the client during meals, dressing and personal hygiene
Monitor cleaning of room, chores, and life tactical skills
Provide structure, discipline and security in meeting the needs of the youths
Serve as a role model and source of feedback to the clients
Supervise and monitor the clients at all times
Provide positive interaction with the clients and demonstrate appropriate de-escalation technique
Facilitate ropes course and adventure based learning groups for the clients of SFCS
Be responsible for group and course safety
Conduct pre and post group inspection
Conduct group facilitation
Perform set up and take down of the ropes course
Insure the safety of each client participating in the course
Properly set up the course
Inspect the course and equipment
Properly instruct the use of the course and equipment to the clients
Direct activities
Empower clients utilizing "Challenge by Choice"
Aid in developing the full potential of the facility
Supervise all activities connected with the course elements
Direct activities and debrief participants
Work as a valuable team member with others in scheduling, facilitating and operating the course
Be available on a regular basis to lead programs
Arrive on site on time
Maintain a commitment to the success of the course
Follow procedures
Take the lead to develop the appropriate combination of elements to achieve the groups goals
Tailor the experience to the goals and capabilities of the clients
Prepare the course for use and take down and properly store equipment at end of each session
Direct and instruct groups sequence and goals of the individual activities and elements
Cultivate learning among the individuals and the groups, including the technical skills as well as the experiential aspects of the course
Promote constructive discussion processing the participants experiences in order to integrate what has been learned