Provisional Overnight Residential Counselor

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!!!


Provisional Overnight Residential Counselor
Young Adult Programs - Arlington

Salary: $20.50/hour

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has open positions where you can begin to build a career! No college degree necessary! Wayside provides a warm work environment with team focused management that places value on healthy work dynamics. A perfect job for folks who like to be busy, creative and offer innovative care to youth and families.

We are looking for coverage for the following shift:
• Intermittent shift coverage for employee PTO/sick time coverage
• Overnight shifts are 10:30pm-8:30am or 11:30pm-9:30am

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 team work.
• 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 if 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.

Competencies/Traits of Our Superstars:
• High quality communication skills show an ability to connect with others, approachability, 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).

Minimum Requirements:
• Valid drivers’ license required - motor vehicle background record checks will be completed.
• High School degree or equivalent required.

We will train you in: Motivational Interviewing; Courageous Conversations; Attachment, Regulation and Competency Model (ARC); Trauma Informed Practice, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, CPR and First Aid.