About this opportunity
Madison Area YMCA lists this SCHOOLAGE COUNSELOR opportunity in madison, New Jersey. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
School-Age Counselor
At the Madison Area YMCA, the School-Age Counselor is responsible for planning and supervising recreational activities for children ages 5 to 12 after school.
Essential Functions:
Be responsible for planning and supervising group activities and individual children under the guidance of the School-Age Coordinators.
Keep information about children and families confidential.
Promotes a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries.
Builds relationships with parents, children, and co-workers; encourages families to build relationships and to understand the YMCA mission.
Adapts to the different ages, abilities, temperaments, cultural styles, languages, and other individual character.
Responds to the range of children's feelings.
Asks and answers questions that encourage children to think for themselves.
Encourages children to do as much as possible for themselves. Helps children when they cooperate, share, care for materials, or work on activities.
Uses varied approaches and shares resources to help children learn and problem solve.
Gives children many chances to choose what they will do, how they will do it, and with whom.
Supervision of Youth:
Adhere to policies related to boundaries with youth.
Attend required abuse risk management training.
Adhere to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising youth.
Report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.
2pm-6pm Monday-Friday
Worksite address
madison, NJ, 07940, US
Who can apply
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