Description

$1,000 Sign On Bonus

Base pay starting at $19.53/hr, up to$22.76

Schedule: Sun-Wed Overnights 11pm -9am

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health – Massachusetts' STARR is an off campus group home located in Paxton, MA, and serves co-ed youth, ages 6 to 12, on a rapid reintegration care program. With a 1:3 staff to student ratio, identify and treat safety/risk factors, barrier behaviors, factors that precipitated placement, and facilitate reintegration of the youth to the family or next appropriate placement in the shortest time period possible, usually within a matter of days.

You will add value by :

Maintaining a safe and therapeutic treatment environment that meets the physical, emotional, and personal needs of program clients while improving functioning and minimizing interfering behaviors.

Providing client documentation to include shift reports, incident reports, and individual progress notes.

Keywords: Youth Counselor, Direct Care Worker, Direct Care Counselor, Direct Service Worker, caregiver, dsp, Direct Support Professional, Residential Counselor, Mental Health Associate, Mental Health Technician, ASD, psychiatric services, inpatient, coaching, counseling, residential care, milieu, residential aide, human services, group home, monitor, mentor, mht, mental health technician, psychology, sociology, child welfare, social services, diploma, child care, behavioral technician, aba, rbt, mental health, autism

• Full-Time Benefits include (but are not limited to):

• 192 PTO hours/year plus 64 sick hours/year

• Blue Cross PPO & High Deductible Insurance plans

• Short & Long Term Disability, Dental, Vision, accident, identity theft, pet and more insurance options

• Tuition Reimbursement Program

• Free Meals working in campus/group home settings

• Student Loan Repayment through SAVI: Full-time up to $5,200/yr, Part-time up to $2,600/yr

• 403b retirement account with guaranteed 3% employer contribution and potential for additional 2% match

• Free Life Insurance up to 2x annual salary, not to exceed $200,000

• Free Employee Assistance Program for help with mental health, work-life balance, general-wellbeing, and more

• Discounts on Hotels, Rental Cars, Theme Parks, Electronics & more

Qualifications

Job Qualifications:

• Must be 21 years of age or older

• Active driver’s license is required.

• High School diploma or GED. Bachelor's degree in Human Services, Psychology, Social Work, or Special Education preferred.

• Previous experience preferred (not required) working with individuals under 21 with psychological, emotional and behavioral disorders, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, and/or autism spectrum disorders.

• Must be MAPS certified, or able to obtain certification with 90 days of employment

• Must be able to attend a 2 week paid orientation, which runs Monday-Friday, 8AM to 4PM.

• Post orientation, the schedule is: Sun-Wed Overnights 11pm -9am

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Posted Date 1 day ago (2/27/2025 9:58 AM)

Requisition ID 2025-42815

Category Direct Care

Position Type Full-Time

Remote No

The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.