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Riverside Community Care

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Child and Family Counselor - Family After School Program

Amazing opportunity to join Riverside’s Family After-School Program as a Child & Family Counselor!

Riverside’s Family After-School Program provides a structured, therapeutic after-school environment for children ages 6–12 in the Cambridge and Somerville communities who have experienced challenges such as neglect, homelessness, and trauma. The program offers clinically intensive, trauma-informed services that help children build coping skills, self-expression, and healthy peer relationships, while actively engaging families through regular events and collaboration.

As a Child & Family Counselor, you will work closely with program staff, family members, and collateral providers to support the emotional and behavioral well-being of the youth served in the program.

In this vital role, you will:

+ Plan, organize, and lead therapeutic groups and daily activities that promote social-emotional growth and skill-building.

+ Ensure children are safe, supported, and appropriately supervised at all times.

+ Implement behavior management strategies and participate in crisis intervention when needed.

+ Partner with clinical case managers on individual treatment plans and goal implementation.

+ Assist with transportation by driving and/or monitoring children as they arrive at and depart from the program using your personal vehicle or our program's transportation vehicle

Schedule: Part Time, 16 hours/week

This program is open during the following hours:

+ Summer: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

+ School Year: Monday through Friday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Pay Rate: $20.60/hourly

Why You'll Love Riverside

We make a true difference in people’s lives through rewarding work. Most of our jobs come with great benefits – including healthcare, numerous professional development opportunities, and generous time off - all in a respectful and inclusive environment, perhaps why Riverside was named a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a best-in-state employer by Forbes.

Benefits include:

+ Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options

+ Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care

+ Eleven paid holidays

+ Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time

+ Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match

+ Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan

+ Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring

+ Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events

+ Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee

Learn more about our benefits and culture:

Our Benefits (https://www.riversidecc.org/careers/employee-benefits/)

Our Culture

Hear what employees think about working for Riverside! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5\_qJ-SZ7o)

Required Skills

+ Must have excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, basic computer fluency (Microsoft Word and email), and ability to document daily client progress

+ Must be comfortable working with an intensive clinical population, willing to learn behavior management interventions, and facilitate therapeutic groups

+ Valid driver’s license required

Required Experience

+ Bachelor’s Degree required

+ At least three years experience working with emotionally and behaviorally challenged children in community, recreational, and treatment settings required

Riverside Community Care is dedicated to respect, integrity and engagement of all individuals. We are committed to building an inclusive and culturally competent organization and we value the richness of having a diverse applicant pool. As an employer committed to equal opportunity, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic as established by law.