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SCO Family of Services
Brooklyn, New York

COUNSELOR - INN VII

Counselor / TherapistFull-Time

Compensation

Pay not listed

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Posted 34m ago · Verified live

Job Description

  • Ensures that residents are provided with quality care in matters of health, safety, clothing, hygiene, and meals
  • Establishes ADL routines including house jobs, room chores, wake-ups, and lights-out, laundry, cooking, etc.
  • Supervises individual and group activities such as trips, sporting events, crafts, etc. Upholds all elements of behavior management system, including restriction system, negotiations, and a repertoire of confrontation techniques and responses.
  • Attends to the educational/ vocational, health and mental health, etc.
  • Models positive behavior at all times while confronting negative behavior
  • Commits to the mission of the program by supporting the creation of a safe, orderly, and caring environment
  • Complete field work as needed
  • Any other assigned tasks

Qualifications

  • High School diploma is required.
  • Three years’ experience working with adolescents. SCO Family of Services is an Equal Opportunities Employment Employer

Key Responsibilities

The counselor ensures the health, safety, and well-being of residents while establishing daily routines and supervising group activities. They are responsible for modeling positive behavior and upholding the program's behavior management system.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Conflict resolutionSupervisionCase managementAdolescent careHealth and safety monitoringLife skills trainingDocumentation

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 20% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Counselor by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedCounselor median $70k (middle half $67k–$78k)32 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingNew York index 107.9US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Counselor listings in New York814 active13,602 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 40% remote · 20% no call · 66% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Counselor pay trend+2.8% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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$100k-110k
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

35 jobs
401k / retirement match
89%
Sign-on bonus
29%
CME allowance
29%
PSLF eligible
9%
Loan repayment
6%

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Work-life snapshot

1.5/ 10
Listing-based score
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About SCO Family of Services

Individual and Family Services
Garden City, New York
1,001-5,000 employees

Living in New York

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$875k
Typical market rent
$4,089/mo
Residents’ average commute
40 min
State income tax
Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.