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Overnight Counselors
Duluth, Minnesota

Overnight Counselor -Sleep

Counselor / TherapistFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Overnight Counselors are responsible for the care and supervision of students. This is a full-time asleep overnight position. This position works with children and adolescents in a treatment setting. Primary duties include supervision, responding to situations or concerns that arise over the course of the asleep overnight shift, and preparing students for daily activities.

Shifts are usually 10 PM - 8 AM (sleeping hours 11-6)

Qualifications

  • At least 21 years of age
  • (2) years of college or other related post high-school education
  • or four (4) years of experience in childcare or the human services field
  • Bachelor's degree and one (1) or more years' experience in the childcare or human services field is preferred but not require
  • Benefits
  • Medical (*)
  • Dental (*)
  • Life (*)
  • Quarterly Health Reimbursement (if you already have health insurance, Northwood will give you $485 per quarter to help pay for it)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Retirement with a 5% match after one year full time employment
  • 7 paid holidays and (1) flex holiday
  • Sick pay
  • Vacation pay
  • Student Loan Repayment Program (after 1 year of full time employment) up to $5000 per year contribution
  • Scholarship (after 1 year full time employment)
  • Cooperative (equipment rental, special events, employee gift fund)
  • $250 referral bonus for each candidate that is hired

Equal Employment Opportunity

Northwood does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local commission.

External candidates please apply directly on the Northwood Children’s Services website at northwoodchildren.org

Mission

Northwood Children’s Services is looking to hire individuals who are committed to helping us fulfill our mission of building brighter futures for the children and the families that we serve. We operate a full continuum of quality mental health treatment programs delivered by passionate, professional and highly trained staff.

Vision

Our vision is to provide the right service at the right time with a focus on integrated continuous care.

Values

The children, first and foremost; Excellence in all that we do so we become the program of choice in each of the service areas we choose to operate. Provide every opportunity for children and their families to enrich their lives; To continue our rich history and legacy of professionalism and community service; To serve children and families with significant challenges and barriers.

If no us, who? If not here, where?

Key Responsibilities

The overnight counselor is responsible for the care and supervision of students in a treatment setting. Duties include responding to situations that arise during the night and preparing students for their daily activities.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Key Skills

Crisis responseMental health supportAdolescent careTreatment planningDocumentationSafety monitoring

Child & Adolescent Counseling — Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 20% are remote, 38% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Counselor market look like in Minnesota?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingMinnesota index 98.6US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Counselor listings in Minnesota231 active13,505 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 20% remote · 38% no call · 70% 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.

Top Counselor Jobs

49 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

49 jobs · 39 employers
18
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$70k-90k
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$90k-110k
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$110k-130k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

39 jobs
401k / retirement match
92% this job
Loan repayment
38% this job
PSLF eligible
31%
Sign-on bonus
28%
CME allowance
28%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 13,480 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Overnight Counselors

Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Quarterly Health Reimbursement ($485/quarter)
Flexible Spending Accounts
Retirement with 5% match
7 paid holidays + 1 flex holiday
Sick pay

Living in Duluth

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$306k
Typical market rent
$1,434/mo
Residents’ average commute
17 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
88.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Duluth, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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