Direct Care Supervisor

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.

We invest in our employees' wellness with comprehensive benefits, including tuition and training reimbursement, a PTO package with 3 wellness days, 9 paid holidays, and up to 3 weeks of vacation in the first year. Enjoy a learning environment with free training, CEUs, and more, along with exceptional medical benefits, financial health supports, and career development opportunities.

Apply today and earn a $2,000 sign-on bonus!

Direct Care Supervisor
Wayside Young Adult Services - Somerville
Salary Range: $22.00 - $23.00/hour depending on experience + sign-on bonus (half paid after 30 days of employment and half paid after 90 days of employment; pro-rated for part-time).
Wayside Youth & Family Support Network has open positions where you can build a career! 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.

What You Will Do:

• Management: Shift planning and responsible for ensuring all 2nd shift expectations (2PM-10PM) met by all staff. Participation in supervisor's meeting. Provide training for new employees
• Directly supervise youth/residents. Participate in staff meetings. Attend all trainings and maintain necessary certifications.
• Medication administration once MAP certified
• Ensure documentation is complete. Demonstrate full competency in Agency and Program policies and procedures.
• Training in staff meeting. Provide care to youth and offer residents a safe and therapeutic milieu while promoting appropriate social skills.
• Teamwork attitude supporting youth. Build the workplace culture on the shift.

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.
• Lead the creative problem-solving process.
• Ability to manage risk.
• Dynamic ability to support youth.
• Demonstrates flexibility and innovative 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.
• At least 1+ years of supervision experience.

Preferred (not a must):

• 1+ years working with Young Adults or homeless populations
• Microsoft Excel intermediate level.

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