Respite Counselor - Overnights
Listed compensation
$21.85–$22.94 /hr
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, nights and shift pattern and time off.
Job Description
Riverside Community Care
Love what you do!
Respite Counselor - Overnights
In this exciting role, the Overnight Respite Counselor will work as part of a team in this acute care residence.
The Respite Counselor will provide guidance, education, supervision, and direct supports to allow consumers to maintain their physical and emotional health, live safely in the community and develop the skills necessary to return to independent living. Interactions between staff and consumers will be guided by an appreciation for those being served as unique individuals and adults, with the expectation and goal of crisis or situational stabilization.
The Respite programs provide both short and long-term care for persons experiencing mental health, substance use disorder, and co-occurring disorders who might otherwise require treatment in an inpatient setting and would benefit from structured stabilization, support, care coordination, and treatment planning.
Schedule: Full Time, 40 hours
- Monday through Friday, 11pm to 7am
Pay Rate
- $21.85/hour High School Diploma
- $22.94/hour with a Bachelor’s Degree
- Differential offered for overnight hours
Why You'll Love Riverside
We make a true difference in people’s lives through rewarding work. Most of our jobs come with great benefits – including healthcare, numerous professional development opportunities, and generous time off - all in a respectful and inclusive environment, perhaps why Riverside was named a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a best-in-state employer by Forbes.
Benefits Include
- Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
- Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
- Twelve paid holidays
- Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
- Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
- Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
- Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
- Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee
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Key Responsibilities
The Respite Counselor provides direct support, guidance, and supervision to consumers in an acute care residence to help them maintain health and safety. They facilitate crisis stabilization and assist individuals in developing skills necessary for independent living.
Requirements
Candidates must possess at least a High School Diploma, with a Bachelor's degree preferred for a higher pay rate. The role requires the ability to work overnight shifts in a residential care setting.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
Key Skills
Behavioral Health — Counselor Career Context
In Massachusetts, the Counselor weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$73k (142 salary observations; 333 listings), vs ~$73k nationally (3,277 salary observations; 9,594 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% are remote, 20% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 5.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$47k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $44k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- No weekends
Living in Upton
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $713k
- Median resident rent
- $939/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 36 min
- State income tax
- Up to 5%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.