Schoolage Counselor

Madison Area YMCA•Madison, NJ

38d•Onsite

About The Position

At the Madison Area YMCA, the School-Age Counselor is responsible for planning and supervising recreational activities for children ages 5 to 12 after school. This role involves creating a safe and engaging environment, fostering positive relationships with children, parents, and colleagues, and adapting to the diverse needs of the children. The counselor will also adhere to strict policies regarding youth supervision and abuse prevention.

Requirements

Must be responsible for planning and supervising group activities and individual children under the guidance of the School-Age Coordinators.
Must keep information about children and families confidential.
Must promote a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries.
Must build relationships with parents, children, and co-workers.
Must adapt to the different ages, abilities, temperaments, cultural styles, languages, and other individual characteristics of children.
Must respond to the range of children's feelings.
Must ask and answer questions that encourage children to think for themselves.
Must encourage children to do as much as possible for themselves.
Must help children when they cooperate, share, care for materials, or work on activities.
Must use varied approaches and share resources to help children learn and problem-solve.
Must give children many chances to choose what they will do, how they will do it, and with whom.
Must adhere to policies related to boundaries with youth.
Must attend required abuse risk management training.
Must adhere to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising youth.
Must report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
Must follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

Planning and supervising group activities and individual children.
Keeping information about children and families confidential.
Promoting a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries.
Building relationships with parents, children, and co-workers.
Encouraging families to build relationships and understand the YMCA mission.
Adapting to the different ages, abilities, temperaments, cultural styles, languages, and other individual characteristics of children.
Responding to the range of children's feelings.
Asking and answering questions that encourage children to think for themselves.
Encouraging children to do as much as possible for themselves.
Helping children when they cooperate, share, care for materials, or work on activities.
Using varied approaches and sharing resources to help children learn and problem-solve.
Giving children many chances to choose what they will do, how they will do it, and with whom.
Adhering to policies related to boundaries with youth.
Attending required abuse risk management training.
Adhering to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising youth.
Reporting suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
Following mandated abuse reporting requirements.