SPARK Assistant | Medical Fitness Center | PRN status

Where summer fun meets real connection!

This isn’t your average summer gig — if you're enthusiastic, energetic, and love working with kids, this is your chance to make a difference and have a blast while doing it!

Our Mission: Quality, compassionate care for all.

Our Vision: Reimagine health care through connection, service and innovation.

Our Core Values: Be Kind | Trust and Be Trusted | Work Together | Strive for Excellence.

As a Camp Counselor, you will be responsible for ensuring a safe and positive environment, supervising campers throughout the day, and managing daily check-in and check-out procedures. Counselors will help plan and lead a variety of age-appropriate activities including arts and crafts, fitness games, basic sports skills, and team-building activities designed to foster cooperation, creativity, confidence, and healthy habits.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading and participating in daily activities like art projects, fitness fun, sports skills, and cooperative games. Yes, you get to play too!

• Making sure each camper is safely checked in and out each day — and has a blast in between.

• Creating and adapting activities to keep the fun flowing and every child engaged.

• Supporting campers with encouragement, creativity, and enthusiasm.

• Collaborating with fellow counselors and staff to ensure a safe, inclusive, and upbeat environment.

• Helping track camper attendance, behavior, and progress — because every win counts!

What We’re Looking For:

• CPR/AED certified (or willing to get certified before the program starts).

• 1+ year of experience working with children or youth (camp, tutoring, babysitting, etc.) preferred

• A team player with strong organizational skills, creativity, and the ability to roll with the punches.

• Someone with great communication skills and a positive, approachable attitude.

• Bonus points if you love being outdoors, getting messy with crafts, or bringing out your inner coach!

Why Join SPARK?

Because no two days are the same — and every day you’ll help kids gain confidence, make friends, and have the best summer ever. Plus, you’ll have just as much fun as they do!

Qualifications:

• Current HS AED Certification required.

• Minimum one (1) year experience working with children and youth preferred.

• Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, a self-starter, possess critical thinking skills and be able to set priorities and function as part of a team as well as independently.

• Commitment to working in a team environment and maintaining confidentiality as needed.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.

• Possess and maintain computer skills to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn other software as needed.

Job Specific Duties:

• Assists in preparing an implementing activities to include, but may not be limited to; art projects, fitness fun, sports skills and a variety of cooperative games. 

• Responsible for the daily checking in / out of each child in addition to overseeing their participation in the program.

• Assists with implementation and monitoring of activities and programs for participants.

• Develops new games and activities to be considered into daily lesson plans.

• Monitors activity sessions as assigned, follows lesson plans, and makes adjustments as applicable to assigned area.

• Recognizes when adjustments are required and creatively adapts activities to maintain participant’s enthusiasm.

• Interacts with children during activities. Participates in games as required, and as opportunity arises.

• Works closely with leadership and staff to ensure the safety of all children participating.

• Treats participants with honesty and respect while maintaining established standards for control.  Shows no partiality or favoritism toward any one or group of participants. 

• Interacts professionally with participants by utilizing children’s names and instills confidence regarding their ability to participate.

• Keeps accurate count of program participants, activity, success/failure, discipline challenges, special participant needs, etc.