Houseparent

**Houseparent**

**_ Starting_** at $16.59/hr **Pay based on experience**

**Masonic Villages of Pennsylvania - **Elizabethtown Campus**:

- **is immediately hiring Full Time & Part Time Houseparent's.**

**Opportunities Include**:

- **_ Full time working 4pm - 12am Tuesday - Saturday_**:

- **_ Part time - 4pm -12am Saturdays only_**:

- **_ Part time - every other weekend only - 12am - 8am Fridays & Saturdays_**:

- **_ Part time - every other weekend only - 8am - 4pm Saturdays & 4pm - 12pm Sundays_**

With over 145 years of providing award-winning care and services across the state of PA, Masonic Villages is driven by our **Mission of Love** to assist individuals in realizing their potential and enjoying the highest possible quality of life.

**Why Choose Masonic Villages**:
Each campus is supported by corporate leaders who are fully invested in our **Mission of Love** and hiring like-minded individuals who are committed to providing heartfelt customer service and contributing to our team environment. When you join our team you can expect:

- Industry-leading benefits that start day one such as $0 cost medical coverage option _**_
- Vacation Time/Flex Time and Paid Holidays _**_
- ** Option for pay in lieu of benefits.**:

- Pay on-demand. Access up to $500 of your earned wages in real-time.
- Unlimited Referral Bonuses of up to $1,000 per referral
- Tuition and Educational Reimbursement
- ** Discounts for onsite Daycare**:

- ** Free Gym and Pool Membership**:

- Paid Lunch _**_
- Discounted Grocery gift cards
- Discounted tickets for movies, theme parks, hotels, and MORE
- Shoe discounts
- Cell phone discounts
- Weekend bonuses and additional shift bonuses
- Employer matched Retirement Savings with free financial planning
- ** A commitment to growing our leaders, with at least 50% of our leadership positions being filled internally**

**Key**:* = Full Time & Part Time Staff Only**

**As a Houseparent, you will carry out our Mission of Love by** **providing nurturing care, supervision, guidance, and discipline to the children in our care.**

**Our Houseparent** is responsible for the following**:

- Establishes and maintains good rapport and credibility with children in our care. Has close personal interchange with children. Maintains appropriate boundaries and professional relationship.
- Provides a home-like environment for children's cottages. Reports cottage needs and maintenance items.
- Accountable for children's whereabouts**, **participates in and supervises all children's activities in daily living including work, recreation, church and study
- Maintains positive communication with families, volunteers, college students, professionals, alumni, employees, and visitors in person and through telephone contact.
- Models good decision-making responsibility, communication, planning, and related activities.
- Performs housekeeping duties such as cleaning, laundry, and cooking.
- Completes required paperwork.
- Maintains good communication with other staff using appropriate forms of communication.
- Trained in the use of passive restraint concepts, uses preventative techniques to deescalate behavior, enforces routine and guidelines, assigns appropriate consequences, and reports incidents.
- Attends scheduled staff meetings, cottage meetings, educational meetings, team meetings etc.
- Transports children to appointments, shopping, work, school, church, and recreational activities.
- Understands and consistently follow through with procedures and policies established by the supervisory staff.

**What You Have**:

- Must meet the Department of Public Welfare required 40 hours of annual in-service training to include First Aid, CPR, Fire Safety, and the Heimlich Driving, Masonic Village, Resident Advocacy, and Medication Administration.
- Must possess a current motor vehicle operator's license from the state of Pennsylvania.
- At least 21 years of age, high school graduate or equivalent with one year experience involving the supervision of a group of children or experience of a practical nature with children.

**We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.