What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Youth Caregiver position at Milton Hershey School?
Residential Youth Caregivers at Milton Hershey School live on campus and provide a family-like structure for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Couples work together to guide, nurture, and support a small group of students, while handling responsibilities such as transportation and health management. This unique role requires strong integrity, experience with youth, and a commitment to the values of the school.
Milton Hershey School (MHS) is one of the world's best private schools, where students in pre-K through 12th grade from disadvantaged backgrounds receive an exceptional career-focused education with housing, meals, and more—and all costs are covered.
Thanks to the generosity of Milton and Catherine Hershey, who founded the school in 1909, the school is fully endowed and has the resources to ensure both students and staff are provided everything they need to thrive.
MHS is hiring married couples to become flex houseparents. Flex houseparents are couples who reside in on-campus student homes, guiding and nurturing a group of approximately 8-12 students. Flex houseparents provide a consistent family-like structure for students and handle responsibilities such as driving, administering medication, budgeting, reporting, etc. When initially hired, flex houseparents cover different student homes before being assigned to one specific home.
Benefits
Salary and Compensation: $43,825 per person (a total compensation package of approx. $150,000 per couple which includes free housing, meals while on duty, utilities, and more)
Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings and flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability options; retirement savings
Relocation Assistance and Training: Provided
Flexible Scheduling: A schedule of nine days on followed by three days off. Workdays include a period of personal time while students are at school
Paid Time Off: Three-week paid summer vacation
Qualifications:
Couple Requirements: Married couples who have been legally married for at least two years
Experience and Skills: Experience working or volunteering with youth, preferably from under-served settings; ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Lifestyle and Expectations: Abide by a smoke-free and weapon-free campus. No alcohol is permitted while on duty; limitations on pets. Only fish and one dog of approved breeds is permitted; valid driver's license; ability to become certified to drive student home vans; comfort leading students in daily devotions and taking students to Judeo-Christian Sunday chapel services (Note: Proselytizing is prohibited); high school diploma or GED required; must demonstrate a high degree of integrity as all staff are role models for students.
Salary : $43,825
