Bluestem Overnight Counselor
Listed compensation
$50k-$55k
The week · per this posting4-day week · 4×10s
Ask the employer about call expectations and time off.
Job Description
Passionate about having a life-changing impact on families in this community? Join Savio House.
The Bluestem Program will be the only treatment program in the nation where a person misusing substances, their partner, and their children receive holistic, full-family care in a home that’s all theirs. It’s a safe alternative to foster care that aims to end the cycle of addiction across generations.
Daily Impact Looks Like
- Ensuring the safety of the family and children through supervision and crisis intervention when necessary
- Building community resources to help sustain families
- Maintain safety and supervision of the Bluestem property
- Provide trauma-informed care to all family members
- This is an awake overnight position
To Belong at Savio, You Need To
Be Reliable and Self-motivated
- Recognize the importance of social systems and a person’s ecology on their development and behaviors
- Have a passion for engaging persons with substance use disorders, their children, and their support systems to address individual, family, and community wellbeing.
- Be comfortable working in a residential setting
Grow with Savio Through
- Comprehensive training in Trauma-Informed Care and Substance Use Disorders
- Professional development
- Weekly supervision
- Shift Summaries
- Overnight 1: Sunday to Thursday 9 pm-7 am (4x10 hr shifts)
- Overnight 2: Wednesday 11 pm-9 am; Thursday to Sunday 9 pm-7 am (4x10 hr shifts)
Pay Range: $50,000 to $55,000
Benefits
- 10 paid holidays
- Vacation time + Sick time
Perks
- Mileage Reimbursements for personal vehicle
- Access to a fleet of company-insured vehicles
- Company-issued cell phone and laptop
- Eligible for student loan forgiveness through the Public Service Federal Loan Forgiveness Program
Medical
- Low employee cost medical coverage
- Dental, Vision, Life, Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity
- HSA, FSA accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Retirement
- 403b account
- Employer Funded Retirement Plan
Requirements
BSW or other Bachelor’s degree (Human Services, Counseling, Psychology, etc), or equivalent experience
Key Responsibilities
Ensure the safety and supervision of families and children in a residential treatment setting through crisis intervention and trauma-informed care. Build community resources to sustain families and maintain the safety of the Bluestem property.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
Key Skills
Addiction Medicine — Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Addiction Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 64% are remote, 16% have no call, 68% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$53k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $51k in an average-cost state. 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Addiction Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
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- On-site
- Includes weekends
Living in Lakewood
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $557k≈ 11.1× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $1,800/mo≈ 43% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 26 min
- State income tax
- Up to 4.4%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.