Experiential Learning Coordinator

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love-and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.

The Experiential Learning Coordinator oversees the program, schedules activities, works with community resources, evaluates new opportunities on an ongoing basis, and facilitates activities that seek to engage, challenge, and enact change through experience while maintaining physical and emotional safety for clients.

Essential Duties:

• Facilitate varied adventure experience activities in a way that maintains safety for clients.
• Facilitate process group sessions to help clients connect the activity to their life experiences.
• Coordinate with off-site vendors as needed to set up activities.
• Interact with milieu and encourage participation in activities.
• Encourage proper care and usage of equipment and facilities and establish and adhere to a regular schedule of inspection of all adventure programming equipment and facilities to ensure safety.
• Conduct ongoing review and evaluation of the adventure program, including feedback from clinical stakeholders and clients, and make appropriate changes.
• Complete documentation timely and according to established standards.
• Communicate with clinicians and direct care staff as needed.
• Facilitate on-site and off-site Experiential activities with clients.

• Bachelor's degree in counseling, recreation, or related field required.
• If hired for Utah location, bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation required.
• A valid driver's license required.
• Minimum two (2) years' experience with young adults/adolescents in a residential setting facilitating and coordinating outdoor, experiential, or recreational activities required.
• Master's degree in counseling, recreation, or related field preferred.
• Certification or training in adventure-based treatment preferred.

Salary Range for this position is $49, 728-$68, 375 annually based on education and experience.

Benefits include:

Medical/Dental/Vision

Company paid life insurance

Voluntary STD/LTD

Flexible Spending Accounts

401k

PTO/Sick

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

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