About the Role
The Overnight Lead provides overnight leadership, care, supervision, safety monitoring, and therapeutic treatment to youth in a residential program. This role bridges direct care and supervisory functions, coordinating overnight operations, documentation, medication administration, and transitions while ensuring quality care and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Promotes and models the organization's trauma-informed philosophy of care.
- Builds and maintains therapeutic relationships with youth and staff.
- Maintains awareness of youth treatment goals and support plans.
- Recognizes and reinforces progress toward treatment goals and positive behavioral outcomes.
- Remains awake, alert, and available throughout the assigned overnight shift.
- Completes scheduled rounds to all homes throughout the night and responds to youth and staff needs.
- Provides line-of-sight supervision and proactive behavior management.
- Monitors residential environments for safety, security, cleanliness, and readiness for the next day.
- Serves as the designated lead staff member during assigned overnight shifts.
- Provides work direction, guidance, coaching, and support to overnight residential staff.
- Assists with onboarding, training, and mentoring of new staff members.
- Supports staff development through regular feedback, documentation review, and coaching.
- Ensures staff consistently implement approved treatment strategies and living-unit routines.
- Assists youth with bedtime expectations, wake-up routines, breakfast preparation, and readiness for school or programming.
- Communicates observed issues, incidents, or overnight concerns to morning staff and the Treatment Team.
- Supports youth development across program elements and wellness expectations.
- Ensures medications are administered according to physician orders and organizational procedures.
- Completes medication logs accurately and reports medication concerns or issues promptly.
- Coordinates transportation, appointments, and program activities as needed.
- Completes documentation required by licensing and organizational standards.
- Completes daily reports, medication logs, incident reports, medical and injury reports, and overnight checklists.
- Reviews documentation for completeness and accuracy.
- Supports compliance with organizational, licensing, and regulatory requirements.
- Responds appropriately to crisis situations and emergencies.
- Provides crisis support to living units and utilizes approved interventions.
- Completes household duties and next-day preparation to maintain clean, stocked, and functional homes.
- Attends required trainings and professional development opportunities.
- Maintains certifications and training requirements.
- Builds and maintains professional networks and learning resources.
- Supports continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Trains, coaches, and supports staff while monitoring progress and providing feedback.
- Assists with monitoring program outcomes and compliance standards.
- Demonstrates behaviors consistent with the organization's mission, vision, and values.
- Complies with organizational standards of conduct and sets an example.
- Participates actively in meetings, team discussions, and shift handoffs.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- One to two years of field work or employment experience working with the type of youth population served.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities and ability to provide work direction to peers.
- Valid driver's license with an insurable driving record.
- Ability to exercise critical thinking, judgment, discernment, and sound decision-making skills.
- Ability to remain awake and alert during overnight shifts, complete rounds, and stand for long periods of time.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to safely perform approved physical interventions when necessary.
- Completion of Rawhide's supervised traineeship program (Preferred).
- Previous leadership, lead worker, or supervisory experience (Preferred).
- Experience training, mentoring, or coaching staff (Preferred).
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, and licensing documentation standards (Preferred).
- Experience with medication administration processes and residential overnight operations (Preferred).
Skills
- Trauma-informed care
- Crisis intervention
- Medication administration
- Documentation
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Behavior management
- Physical interventions
Location
- New London, WI 54961
Work Type
- Full Time
- Overnight
Experience Level
- 1-2 years of experience working with the youth population served
- Previous leadership, lead worker, or supervisory experience (Preferred)
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in a social or behavioral science field, Human Services, Social Work, Psychology, Criminal Justice, Education, or related field; equivalent education and directly related experience may be considered.
Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Competitive 401k plan
- 10 paid Holidays
- PTO, VTO, Wellness Day, & Floating Holiday
- 5 Weeks Paid Sabbatical Leave
- Onsite Café and Coffee Shop (New London)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Nature Trails/Waterfront on 600+ acres (New London)
- Onsite Fitness Center and Gymnasium (New London)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Jury Duty Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- Paid Benefits for Birth or Adoption
About the Company
- Rawhide's mission, vision, and values.
