Night Watch Lead (Boys Youth Academy, Autism Spectrum)

WHO WE ARE

Maple Lake Academy is a residential treatment center for adolescents (Boys 13 to 18) on the autistic spectrum.  Our students are high functioning dealing with deficits in social skills, life skills, inability to understand their own emotions or put their emotions in to words. We provide a safe and nurturing home like environment for our students to learn skills that push them in the areas mentioned above. Our team works with our client population daily, hands on, and in one on one situations.  

OVERVIEW

The Night Watch Lead supports the Residential Department and our students during the night hours by performing regular bed checks, fulfilling some light cleaning duties, and communicating important information from the previous evening shift to the oncoming morning shift. In addition to Night Watch Mentor duties, the Nightwatch Lead is responsible for training other Night Watch Staff, leading by example, and managing cleaning/chore tasks and inventory. The Nightwatch Lead sets an example and demonstrates MLA's values and standards. The Nightwatch Lead will communicate regularly with the Night Watch team and make sure to forward their needs as a team to the Residential Manager. The Night Watch Lead works closely with the Residential Manager to communicate training, development, support, and performance improvement needs of the Night Watch Mentors.

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...

• Are looking to gain experience working with teens on the autism spectrum
• 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
  

HIGHLIGHTS

• Gain experience working in a multi-disciplinary team environment driven by clinical, academic, medical, and residential professionals
• Exposure, observation, and participation supporting teens on autism spectrum and who work through other therapeutic needs
• Training in therapeutic concepts and principles including Attachment Theory, various diagnoses, de-escalation, communication, mindfulness, and more.
• Culture of learning, growth, continual improvement, and introspection
• Opportunity to work on appropriate school or personal projects or hobbies as long as required work is complete and supervision of students is maintained

Schedule 

• 10:45PM to 7:15AM.
  
• 24 hours per week.
  
• Opportunity for advancement to Full-Time work

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
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  6 months experience as a mentor or related position (preferred)
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  Internal hire (preferred)
  

Essential Responsibilities and Duties 

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  This is an awake position. Sleeping is not permitted.
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  All duties required of the night watch mentor position
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  Hold a weekly shift meeting to communicate student and program updates, and provide ongoing training to the nightwatch team
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    Depending on feasibility, the weekly shift meeting may be in-person, via video call, or by email
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    The night watch lead and the residential manager will work together to determine which method(s) are most appropriate to meet the needs of the nightwatch team, the department, and program or licensing needs
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    The most important objective is to ensure regular weekly communication among the nightwatch team, and between the nightwatch team and the rest of the residential department
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  Attend monthly company training
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  Provide a safe and nurturing environment for clients
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  Be dependable, reliable, receive and carry out instruction, and genuinely care for others
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  Perform light house cleaning duties
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  Will become trained and maintain training in Positive Communication Systems
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  Will become trained and maintain training in CPR/First Aid
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  Observe and monitor behavior and have the ability to chart on those observations in a professional and objective manner
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  Reports to the Residential Manager. Will work alongside other team members, and must work well with others.
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  Adheres to the training program and is eager to learn and grown in their position as a lead mentor. Will stay up-to-date on all training requirements.
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  Is able to keep personal feelings and emotions from influencing decisions regarding clients and employees
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  Must maintain confidentiality of clients and sensitive employee and program matters
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  Ensure night watch shifts are properly covered, manages Night Watch schedules.
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  Leads and supports training and development of all night watch team members; assists in updating pertinent trainings of night watch team on training record
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  Assists in communicating instruction from Residential Manager and MLA Management to night watch team
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  Assists in communicating needs, ideas, and suggestions from night watch team to Residential Manager
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  Ensure night watch team is monitoring fridge and freezer temperatures daily and reporting potentially unsafe temperature readings to the Kitchen Manager or Residential Manager
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  May be assigned to assist in managing student music (including approval of student song selection, documenting banned songs, purchasing approved songs, removing and adding songs to student music devices)
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  Stays up-to-date with current student treatment goals and plans and helps ensure night watch team is updated regularly with relevant student information
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  Review BestNotes charts - note any errors or missing charts from the night watch team and follow up with staff who need to make corrections (report also to Residential Manager)
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  Train night watch staff on safety drills and protocols
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  Send weekly shift notes to Residential Manager
• Performs inventory checks with Night Watch team
• Reports inventory needs to Residential Manager
• Performs random night checks and audits
• In coordination with the Residential Director, performs Night Watch team's evaluations.
• In coordination with the Residential Director, performs disciplinary actions for Night Watch staff.
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  Other duties as assigned
  

Additional Responsibilities and Duties 

• Be a team player 
• Dependable, reliable, receive and carry out instruction, and genuinely care for others 
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  Copy/Fax machine: None
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  Computer Skills: Basic
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  Microsoft 365: Basic
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  Video Conferencing: Basic
  

• 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.

Interested applicants should apply to this posting, and you can expect an immediate email notification upon receipt of your application. Our hiring managers will reach out to candidates who appear to meet our needs within a few business days. If you don't see any emails come through upon submitting the application, or are awaiting a response from the hiring managers, check your SPAM folder. Sometimes emails from our application system get sent there.

Company Website: www.maplelakeacademy.com