Show your passion by empowering youth and families when joining the Wayside team!

Wayside is one of Massachusetts' most respected youth and family-serving agencies, supporting more than 6,000 youth and families annually across Central, Eastern, and Northeastern regions.

Wayside offers a learning environment – free trainings and CEUs. We provide a teamwork atmosphere and career development support – a great place to grow your career!!!

Residential Counselor – Per Diem
Young Adult Services Somerville

Salary Range: $19.25 - $20.00/hour depending on experience.

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has open positions where you can begin to build a career. Wayside provides a warm work environment with team focused management that places value on healthy work dynamics.

What You Will Do:

• Directly supervise and engage with youth/residents in activities and daily routines.
• Support skill building for all youth/residents through collaborative teamwork.
• Show yourself to be a willing learner in trainings and maintain necessary certifications.
• Facilitating recreational activities for clients, working with the staff team to ensure the program structure while providing positive role modeling for youth.
• Safe client transportation and medication administration once MAP certified.
• Assist the program in providing basic needs for clients, such as regular meals, a safe and clean-living environment, recreational activities, and appropriate hygiene.

• High quality communication skills show an ability to connect with others, approachable, being respectful to others, able to communicate with others at all levels.
• Reflective self-awareness.
• Ability to manage risk.
• Dynamic ability to support youth.
• Demonstrates flexibility and creative thinking (i.e. ability to adapt and adjust to changing work situations, processes, and procedures).

• Must be available evenings and weekends. Valid drivers’ license required - motor vehicle background record checks will be completed.
• High School degree or equivalent required.