What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Mentor - Weekday position at Whetstone Academy, LLC?
Youth Mentor - Weekend Job Description
Location: Mountain Rest, SC, 29664
Position Overview
Youth Mentors play a crucial role in our students' success. They build trusting relationships, hold boundaries, and structure daily recreational and therapeutic activities with support and guidance from the team and manager.
Youth Mentors are trained in effective research based relationship building and de-escalation techniques.
Schedule:
Monday - Thursday 12:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Responsibilities:
- Provide a nurturing environment and close supervision of students
- Utilize natural and logical consequences to hold students accountable
- Employs relationship and counseling skills effectively
- Complete all necessary student documentation
- Attend, participate and complete all mandatory training
Requirements:
- Love working with children
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Experience working with youth
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Flexibility to work doubles during the day on the weekends
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
- Pass a background check
Competencies Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Behaviors:
- Empathy: The ability to understand and relate to the needs and experiences of young people, demonstrating empathy and compassion.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, including the ability to listen actively, provide guidance and support, and build positive relationships with young people.
- Role Modeling: A commitment to being a positive role model, demonstrating positive behaviors, and promoting healthy habits and lifestyles.
- Mentoring: Ability to develop and implement a mentoring plan for each mentee, set achievable goals, and track progress over time.
- Conflict Resolution: The ability to mediate conflicts and provide guidance on conflict resolution strategies to help young people develop healthy interpersonal relationships.
- Creativity: Creativity and innovation to develop engaging and stimulating activities and programs that support the development of young people.
- Knowledge of Youth Development: Knowledge of youth development principles, including cognitive, social, and emotional development, and the ability to apply this knowledge to support young people's growth and development.
- Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with other mentors, staff, and community partners to achieve program goals and objectives.
- Flexibility: The ability to adapt to changing needs and circumstances, being open to new ideas, and demonstrating flexibility.
- Positive Attitude: A positive attitude, enthusiasm, and a passion for helping young people reach their full potential.
Working Conditions:
Work includes active movement around facility and on off campus activities in all weather conditions and various terrain. Must have the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, life and grasp. Must be able to stand up and move around 95% of shift. Must have the ability to express and exchange ideas via spoken word during activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to others accurately, and sometimes quickly and loudly. Hearing to perceive the nature of sounds with or without correction; ability to perceive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound. Work requires a minimal standard of visual acuity with or without correction that will enable people in the role to visually observe residents in acts of daily living, recreational and therapeutic activities.
Position Relationships:
Supervised by: Weekday Residential Life Manager
Workers Supervised: N/A
Whetstone Academy is a highly esteemed therapeutic boarding school for 9-15 year old boys located in Mountain Rest, South Carolina, within minutes of the Chattooga River. WA is accredited through Cognia and CARF. We have a nationwide reputation for providing high-quality care for our students and their families leading to students' success upon return to the home environment. Our core values are integrity, quality, unity, and gratitude. We seek to embody these values as we serve boys who experience trauma, grief, loss, attachment issues, anxiety, depression, ADHD, ODD, autism spectrum disorders, and school refusal. We utilize a relationship based model with our students with a focus on trauma informed care. At Whetstone Academy, we invest in the culture of our program at every opportunity.
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