Do you love camping and spending time outdoors as much as we do? Camp Easterseals is located in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of New Castle, Virginia, and is seeking a Camp Counselor to assist our campers with daily activities during a respite weekend. Easterseals PORT Health is a non-profit service provider in North Carolina & Virginia.
The respite weekend will take place September 12th-15th.
What You’ll Do
The Camp Counselor assists campers with daily activities such as transferring in and out of wheelchairs, bathing, feeding, dressing, and with camp activities such as nature walks, art and crafts, and adapted sports activities, as needed.
How You’ll Benefit
You’ll earn a competitive salary ranging from $300 to $350 per week based on experience in addition to other benefits for Camp staff:
Camp benefits include:
· Room and board (all meals and smores are included!!)
· Climate-controlled cabins
· Biweekly salary
· Experience caring for individuals with disabilities
· Personal growth and meaningful work
· A beautiful, tranquil work environment with wooded areas to explore in your down-time
· Camp activity areas including swimming pools, creek, recreation hall, dining hall, and many other outdoor areas!
What We’re Looking For
To join our team, you must believe that with the right support, people with disabilities can live, work, and contribute to their communities, have a sense of humor and have a passion for helping others. We also require the following:
· You must be at least 18 or older
· Possess a minimum of a high school diploma or GED
· Have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record
· Be able to bend and lift 30 pounds and possess the physical ability to perform the position duties
If you are kind, have a great attitude, a sense of humor, and are seeking a rewarding summer opportunity where you can make a huge difference in the lives of the people you will help to enjoy camp, please apply now at our website: www.eastersealsucp.com
About Camp Easterseals
For 64 years, Camp Easterseals has provided quality recreational and therapeutic camp programming in the beautiful countryside of New Castle, Virginia. Children and adults with disabilities are able to experience all the outdoors has to offer including horseback riding, canoeing, swimming, arts and crafts, ziplining and campfires thanks to an amazing group of dedicated team members just like you.
Our working environment supports employee and client health with a ‘no tobacco’ use policy (tobacco free and smoke free) in all offices, client facilities, properties, and agency vehicles.
We believe that by leveraging the unique strengths and perspectives of our workforce, we can advance our just cause, while building a healthy, sustainable organization. That’s why we listen, seek to understand & act to make ESPH an Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Authentic & Learning (IDEAL) organization.
Applicants of all abilities are encouraged to apply!