Job description
Overview:
Join us at Embark at our short-term residential facility at Independence, Missouri where our therapists offer guidance and support to adolescents and their families which includes multi-modal family system approaches to amplify and solidify healthy change.
Scheduling:
Embark is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Embark is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Embark seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society.
We are looking for skilled and empathetic life coaches that want to make a difference and be part of an amazing and growing team located in Independence, Missouri. Our beautiful and private campus sits out in the woods just northeast of Kansas City, and is an environment that allows our residents to fully unplug and engage in their treatment. Yet, our campus is also just 30 minutes from the middle of downtown Kansas City! This provides a diverse array of opportunities for engagement with our residents.
Join us at Embark at our short-term residential facility at Independence, Missouri where our therapists offer guidance and support to adolescents and their families which includes multi-modal family system approaches to amplify and solidify healthy change.
At Embark Behavioral Health, life coaches will be working directly in the daily lives of our residents. Life coaches collaborate with clinical and academic staff to facilitate success for our residents in their community-based care setting. If you are interested in working with teenagers as a life coach, Embark provides an exciting and challenging opportunity for you. Our life coaches work directly in guiding our residents through their treatment.
What does working with Embark offer you? www.embarkbh.com
Scheduling:
- Life coaches will work 4 shifts and each shift is 10 hours
- Morning shifts are 6:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Evening shifts are 12:30 pm – 10:30 pm
- Night watch shifts are 9:30 pm – 7:30 am
As a life coach, you will enjoy the following responsibilities:
- Providing safety and oversight utilizing Shelterwood’s unique therapeutic program. You’ll also develop competencies in administering medications and restraint techniques. (Training emphasizes de-escalation rather than restraint.)
- Demonstrating competency with the CASA developmental framework to implement care with our residents. This helps our residents to internalize love and acceptance during their treatment.
- Initiating, facilitating, and leading activities for recreation and service that are designed to help students develop healthy coping mechanisms, learn new interests, develop empathy, and stronger interpersonal skills.
- Working alongside teens as they do chores, activities and special projects to build responsibility and integrity.
- Provide feedback representing the residential team in treatment team meetings where residence, school and therapists plan treatment goals and interventions.
What do you bring to the position?
- A college degree and/or experience working with teens is preferred but not required
- Must be 21 years of age
- Must have a love for teenagers and empathy for the season of life that they’re in.
- A willingness to develop leadership and initiative to develop relationships with many new people
As a life coach, you’ll enjoy the following benefits:
- Extensive training. We train staff in residential care. Examples of training include working with teens that have a variety of behavioral issues, knowledge of HIPAA guidelines and documentation, state mandated reporting, and Ministry Safe.
- Access to professional growth using our leading-edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
- Competitive Pay
- Comprehensive Benefit Program that includes medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan, dental insurance, vision insurance, voluntary life and AD&D insurance, long-term disability, 401K with company matching, and paid maternal leave.
- Company Paid Holidays plus a PTO accrual schedule.
- Opportunity to foster relationships with adolescents and their families, create joy in their lives, and heal generations.
Embark is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Embark is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Embark seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society.
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