Staff Mentor Jobs

We want you to join our team! We need deeply compassionate, committed and highly talented staff. The Woods organization is guided by their mission to support children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential and independence through innovative and individualized approaches that promote leaning and personal fulfillment.

Benefits

• Paid time off/sick time
• Career growth opportunities
• Continuing education programs
• Life and Disability Insurance
• 403b
• On-site FREE medical center
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Tuition assisted program

Salary

Job Summary

The Staff Mentor is responsible to continually monitor and oversee residential and day program milieu to identify areas of concern areas requiring additional support and attention.

• 3 years’ experience working in a residential setting serving individual with developmental disabilities.
• Actively assist in crisis intervention to support staff and facilitate appropriate de-escalation techniques.
• Responsibilities also include providing initial “on the job” training and support to newly hired direct care staff and to provide mentoring and education throughout their probationary period.
• Support staff in the implementation of programs and activities; model and support active engagement.
• Direct care experience must include one year experience at Woods Services.
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Communicate areas of concern fir resolution.
• Work with new employees to orient them to job expectations/standards.
• Maintain objective observations of the milieu to identify stressors.
• In conjunction with management, this role is responsible to train and support staff in the development of therapeutic skills to provide active engagement, de-escalation, and problem solve difficult situations as they arise.
• Direct care experience must include one year experience at Woods Services.
• Serve as a mentor as needed.
• Actively available to facilitate and coordinate needed breaks
• Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) requires 2 employment verifications and/or references, 12 behavioral health semester credit hours and 2 years of direct care experience with children/adolescents.
• Further responsibilities include developing and maintaining mentor relationships with all direct care staff to support.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

About Woods Services

Woods Services is a Pennsylvania and New Jersey-based non-profit population health network and advocacy organization that along with its six affiliate organizations provides life-long innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 22,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

Our Langhorne campus is home to 550 residents, and provides outpatient and day programs.