Therapeutic Mentor

Job Description

Job Description

Would you like to work for a non-profit organization where your contributions make a major impact on the lives of the children and families that we serve? Join a family of experienced mental health professionals and counselors dedicated to providing kids, and each other, the kindness, respect, and encouragement they need to succeed.

Elk Hill was honored as a 2025 Top Workplace USA and 2025 Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace. These awards are based solely on employee feedback and recognize the great culture that exists at every level of the organization.

If you want to work for a Top Workplace USA and a Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace organization where your decisions can impact youth and families of Central Virginia, then Elk Hill Farm, Inc. is the place for you!

We are an organization that:

• Is honored as a 2025 Top Workplace USA and 2025 Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace
• Is a Top Workplace Meaningfulness Award recipient
• Has talented, hardworking employees
• Advocates for mental health issues
• Offers competitive benefits, pay, and pet insurance for full-time staff
• Provides a generous time-off and holiday package
• Offers a 401(k) plan with a 5% employer match for full-time staff
• Provides tuition assistance
• Elk Hill is celebrating 50+ years of supporting youth and families across the Commonwealth of Virginia! Stability. Adaptability. Longevity.

Primary Function of a Therapeutic Mentor:

Serve as a positive role model for youth, providing support, coaching, training, and supervision within a healthy, positive relationship.

Responsibilities of a Therapeutic Mentor:

• Work with youth to develop interpersonal, communication, social, and problem-solving skills, as well as age-appropriate behaviors and constructive use of leisure time
• Provide and supervise recreational and social activities based on the goals established collaboratively with the youth, parents, and placing agency
• Demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of youth, flexibility, a non-threatening manner, respect for youth’s autonomy, confidentiality, socio-cultural values, personal goals, lifestyle choices, and family interactions, and appropriate professional boundaries and ethics
• Provide the number of hours per month/week contracted by the placing agency
• Complete session progress notes for each session and provide to supervisor, as required
• Attend FAPT, treatment team, or family engagement meetings as requested by supervisor
• Maintain current certification in CPR and First Aid
• Maintain a driving record that meets the requirements of Elk Hill
• Maintain liability coverage, at the level required by Elk Hill, on personal auto insurance policy
• Participate in face-to-face supervision with supervisor at least once per month
• Work cooperatively with all Elk Hill staff to improve the quality of the whole organization

Qualifications:

• Ability to work independently and without direct supervision
• Experience working with children and/or adolescents
• Willingness to travel and work non-traditional business hours
• Exhibit consistent personal integrity in dealings with youth, families, co-workers, and agency personnel

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is at the forefront of what we do at Elk Hill, and we enforce respectful communication and cooperation between all. Elk Hill does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Note: Elk Hill reserves the right to change or reassign job duties or combine positions at any time.