COUNSELOR - INDEPENDENCE INN V
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Job Description
Responsibilities
- 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 - External
- High School diploma is required.
- Three years’ experience working with adolescents. SCO Family of Services is an Equal Opportunities Employment Employer
Requirements
A high school diploma is required for this position. Candidates must have at least three years of experience working with adolescents.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates COUNSELOR - INDEPENDENCE INN V at SCO Family of Services a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Counseling — ranked against 13,890 active Counseling listings on WeekdayDoc.
Youth Counseling — Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 32% are remote, 30% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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