What are the responsibilities and job description for the Experiential Learning Specialist position at PrairieCare?
About Us
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®
Responsibilities
The Experiential Learning Specialist facilitates activities that seek to engage, challenge, and enact change through experience while maintaining physical and emotional safety for clients.
Essential Duties
Benefits Include
Medical/Dental/Vision
Company Paid Life Insurance
Voluntary STD/LTD
Flexible Spending Accounts
Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.
For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®
Responsibilities
The Experiential Learning Specialist facilitates activities that seek to engage, challenge, and enact change through experience while maintaining physical and emotional safety for clients.
Essential Duties
- Facilitate varied adventure experience activities in a way that maintains safety for clients.
- Collaborate with Experiential Learning Coordinator or designated Clinical Supervisor to identify and incorporate experiential activities for clients.
- Facilitate process group sessions to help clients connect the activity to their life experiences.
- Coordinate with off-site vendors as needed to set up activities.
- Interact with milieu and encourage participation in activities.
- Encourage proper care and usage of equipment and facilities and establish and adhere to a regular schedule of inspection of all adventure programming equipment and facilities to ensure safety.
- Complete documentation timely and according to established standards.
- Communicate with clinicians and direct care staff as needed.
- Facilitate on-site and off-site Experiential activities with clients.
- High School Diploma or GED required, bachelor’s degree in counseling, recreation, or related field preferred.
- If hired for Utah location, bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation required.
- A valid driver’s license required.
- Minimum one (1) years’ experience with young adults/adolescents facilitating outdoor, experiential, or recreational activities required, in a residential setting preferred.
- Certification or training in adventure-based treatment preferred.
Benefits Include
Medical/Dental/Vision
Company Paid Life Insurance
Voluntary STD/LTD
Flexible Spending Accounts
Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.
For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters
Salary : $20 - $26
