Rehabilitation Counselor - Primetime House (Torrington)
Listed compensation
$20/hour
The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only
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Job Description
- Job Location: Primetime House - Torrington, CT 06790
- Position Type: Full Time
- Education Level: Some Post-Secondary
- Salary Range: $20.00 - $20.00 Hourly
- Job Shift: First Shift
- Position: Rehabilitation Counselor Program: Primetime House
- Location: Torrington Salary: $20.00/hour
- Schedule: Full time; 40 hours; 1st shift
Monday-Friday with flexibility for evening & weekend social rehab events. Program Summary: Prime Time House’s Clubhouse helps its members to attain employment, education, life skills, and overall, a better quality of life.
Prime Time House is a non-traditional mental health program that utilizes work as its intervention in helping its members reach their goals and re-integrate into the community.
Program staff help members set and achieve personal goals, emphasize members' strengths and abilities, and ensure that each member has access to quality mental health care by connecting them to community providers for medication management, individual counseling, outpatient treatment options, vocational, and educational services.
Position Summary
Interested candidates should possess an understanding of serious mental illness, have a passion for excellence, a positive attitude, and enjoy multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment.
Candidates are culturally and trauma responsive, gender affirming, recovery oriented, person centered, situationally aware, open minded, have excellent communication skills, a sense of humor, are growth oriented, solution focused and patient.
A valid driver’s license is required, and the candidate will need to complete agency driving training to provide transportation to participants in an agency van. Candidate must be comfortable preparing lunch in a commercial kitchen, while engaging members in the process.
Excellent communication skills, and comfort working with technology, including MS Office and Electronic Health Record and also comfortable learning new technology and programs.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Social Work or related field is preferred Related experience working with individuals with serious and persistent mental illness Valid Driver’s License Orientation: If selected for employment with The Connection, newly hired employees will be required to attend a two (2) day mandatory New Hire Orientation at our Roscommon office located in Middletown.
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision benefits are offered along with other additional voluntary coverages with full time employment 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching contribution Company paid short and long term disability and life insurance with full time employment Paid time off (vacation, personal and sick) with full time employment 12 paid holidays The Connection is a statewide human services and community development agency that provides unique solutions to the problems of homelessness, mental illness, substance use, improving child welfare and community justice rehabilitation. For additional information, visit theconnectioninc.org. Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
Support members of a non-traditional mental health program in attaining employment, education, and life skills through work-based interventions. Connect members to community providers for medication management, counseling, and vocational services while assisting with daily activities like meal preparation.
Requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Social Work, or a related field is preferred, along with experience working with individuals with serious mental illness. A valid driver's license is required to provide transportation for participants.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Rehabilitation Counseling — Counselor Career Context
The cost-of-living index for Connecticut is 103.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$37k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $36k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Connecticut clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 28% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 6.4 / 10 · top 25% in rehabilitation counseling | ranked against 31 Rehabilitation Counseling listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Listed pay | $33k–$42k | Counselor median $81k (middle half $45k–$118k)10 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$36k in purchasing power | Connecticut index 103.6 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Rehabilitation Counseling listings in Connecticut | 9 active | —live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| All counselor listings in Connecticut | 238 active | 13,472 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 52% remote · 28% no call · 60% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | Connecticut counselor listings (all specialties): 12% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 28% offer loan repayment238 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| Counselor pay trend (all specialties) | −2.7% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
| Confidential Employer | #11 of 21 for pay | Top Employers work-life index |
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Rehabilitation Counselor - Primetime House (Torrington) at Confidential Employer a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Rehabilitation Counseling — ranked against 31 active Rehabilitation Counseling listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
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