What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Youth Caregiver position at Milton Hershey School?
Residential Youth Caregiver - Relocation to Hershey, PA Required
Milton Hershey School is hiring married couples to serve as flex houseparents. As a Residential Youth Caregiver, you will guide and nurture students aged pre-K to 12th grade in a supportive, family-like environment. Your responsibilities include overseeing a group of 8-12 students, managing household tasks, and ensuring a safe and structured home life.
Description:
Milton Hershey School provides an exceptional education with housing, meals, and more, free of charge, to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school is fully endowed, thanks to the generosity of Milton and Catherine Hershey, who founded the school in 1909. This allows us to provide both students and staff with everything they need to thrive.
Benefits:
Qualifications:
Milton Hershey School is hiring married couples to serve as flex houseparents. As a Residential Youth Caregiver, you will guide and nurture students aged pre-K to 12th grade in a supportive, family-like environment. Your responsibilities include overseeing a group of 8-12 students, managing household tasks, and ensuring a safe and structured home life.
Description:
Milton Hershey School provides an exceptional education with housing, meals, and more, free of charge, to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school is fully endowed, thanks to the generosity of Milton and Catherine Hershey, who founded the school in 1909. This allows us to provide both students and staff with everything they need to thrive.
Benefits:
- Salary of $43,825 per person (total compensation package of approx. $150,000 per couple)
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings and flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability options; retirement savings
- Relocation assistance and paid training provided
- Schedule of nine days on followed by three days off. Workdays include a period of personal time while students are at school
- Three-week paid summer vacation
Qualifications:
- Experience working or volunteering with youth, preferably from under-served settings
- This is a two-person job for couples who have been legally married for at least two years
- Both spouses should be age 27 or older
- No more than three dependent children may reside in the student home
- 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
- Couples must be comfortable leading students in daily devotions and take students to Judeo-Christian Sunday chapel services (Note: Proselytizing is prohibited)
- High school diploma or GED required
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Candidates must demonstrate a high degree of integrity as all staff are role models for students.
- Both spouses must complete an individual employment application
Salary : $43,825
