What are the responsibilities and job description for the Undergraduate Counselor position at The Baker Center for Children and Families?
Camp Baker Undergraduate Counselor
Job Title: Camp Baker Undergraduate Counselor
Location: On-site – Boston/Hale Reservation
Job Type: Full-Time - Seasonal
Summary of Job:
The Baker Center for Children and Families (also known as Judge Baker Children's Center), promotes the best possible mental health of children and families through the integration of research, intervention, training, and policy.
Camp Baker at The Baker Center for Children and Families is a program premised on the Summer Treatment Program (STP), a Model Program for Service Delivery for Child and Family Mental Health and evidence-based program to support children and ADHD and comorbid challenges. The Camp Baker Undergraduate Counselor summer job provides trainees with the opportunity to receive didactic learning in the STP model, implementation of the complex behavioral system with a group of children, experience taking behavioral data, using date to create individualized treatment plans, formal group supervision, and informal individual supervision.
The dates of employment for the Undergraduate Counselor summer job is Tuesday, July 1, 2025, through Friday, August 15, 2025 (counselors will have Friday, July 4th off). Undergraduate Counselors’ hours of employment will be from 7:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. In addition, Undergraduate Counselors will continue to work until 6:00pm one evening each week while caregivers participate in parent training sessions.
What’s in it for me?
- Receive extensive training and hands-on experience implementing an evidence-based intervention
- Implement general behavioral principles and learn ways to interact with children that will be beneficial for any setting and population
- Gain over 200 hours of supervised direct clinical experience with neurodiverse children
- Participate in weekly group and individual supervision with Graduate Counselors and Leadership Team members
- Observe then participate in daily caregiver check-outs providing positive and challenging clinical information about their child’s day
- Exposure to an evidence-based caregiver training intervention as the core didactic base of parent training sessions weekly throughout the summer
- Academic course credit or clinical training hours may be arranged through an Undergraduate Counselor’s own program.
Responsibilities:
- Implements an extensive positive and negative behavior modification treatment program including feedback and associated consequences, daily and weekly rewards, social praise and attention, appropriate commands, and removal from positive reinforcement.
- Plan and conduct sports-based skill drills to address children’s specific skill deficits, provide appropriate coaching, assess children’s knowledge of the game rules and procedures, model appropriate sports skills, and encourage and reinforce appropriate effort, sportsmanship, leadership, and teamwork.
- Responsible for recording, tracking, and entering daily records of children’s behavior and response to the treatment.
Learning Objectives:
- Participates in weekly group supervisions and in week-long didactic training on behavior modification principles and how to use behavior modification strategies.
- Works with undergraduate and graduate staff to review daily treatment records to determine individual areas of impairment and target behaviors and individualized programming needs for campers who do not respond to standard treatment components.
- Communicate with parents/guardians about their children’s performance on daily report card goals.
- Work under the supervision of doctoral level clinicians and experienced Camp Baker staff members and receive regular feedback about your performance.
Training:
- Must be able to use physical management procedures to help maintain the safety of children ages 6-12. Due to this aspect of the job, Undergraduate Counselors will come into close contact with campers and other staff and will be unable to socially distance.
- Abide by policies and procedures regarding the behavioral modification program, daily classroom activities, and the physical management of, and injuries to, campers.
Qualifications
Education:
- Enrolled in or completed an undergraduate-level program in Psychology, Education, Behavior Analysis, Social Work, or related field.
Experience:
- Experience working with children or adolescents in settings such as summer camps, or after-school, sports, daycare, or educational program is preferred.
- Experience with activities such as organized sports, art, music, dance, theater, graphic design, photography, and videography.
- Experience teaching, refereeing, or coaching children is preferred.
- Based on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, a fully effective vaccination with the Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a pre-condition to employment.
(Cover letter, Updated Resume, Writing Sample, and three (3) letters of recommendation sent directly to campbaker@bakercenter.org are required for consideration.)
Logistics
Salary: $3,000 stipend for new staff
$3,500 stipend for returning staff
Open Date: December 1, 2024
Start Date: July 1, 2025
Diverse and multilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.
