Direct Care Counselor - Girls Empowerment Zone
Listed compensation
$20-$21/hr
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- No weekends
Job description
Join Walker as a Direct Care Counselor – Girls Empowerment Zone in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Benefits & Compensation
- Pay rate: $20.00 - $21.00/hr.
Work Schedule
- Full-Time position.
- No weekends required.
This position offers weekends off. Work with Walker in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Key Responsibilities
The Direct Care Counselor provides direct supervision and therapeutic support to children and teens in a residential setting. They are responsible for implementing treatment plans, managing the milieu, and facilitating social and recreational activities.
Requirements
Candidates must possess a high school diploma or GED, with an associate degree preferred. The role requires the ability to pass a criminal background check and the physical stamina to perform therapeutic interventions.
Key Skills
Child & Adolescent Counseling — Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 28% have no call, 72% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$43k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $40k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Direct Care Counselor - Girls Empowerment Zone at WALKER a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Child & Adolescent Counseling counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
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- No weekends