Youth Mentor - PM Shift (T, Th, Sat)
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Maple Lake Academy
Spanish Fork, UT, US
Summary
The Youth Mentor provides structured support and therapeutic interventions to neurodiverse teenage boys in both classroom and residential settings. Responsibilities include modeling positive behavior, assisting with daily living activities, and transporting students to appointments.
Job Description
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of neurodiverse youth? Maple Lake Academy is looking for energetic, compassionate individuals to step into a Staff Mentor role supporting teenage boys with Autism (high functioning) in a structured, supportive, and growth-focused school and community environment. In this role, you'll:
✔️ Provide classroom support during school hours. Provide structured support during non-school hours
✔️ Build meaningful connections with students
✔️ Collaborate with a strong, caring team
✔️ Help guide students in their academic and personal development with life skills and social skills The work we do is rewarding and challenging—it's an opportunity to mentor, model, and make a real impact. We offer flexible shifts or set shifts and a chance to be part of a team that values progress, connection, and individualized growth. Whether you're looking to gain experience in education, psychology, or social work—or simply want to be part of something meaningful—we’d love to meet you.
This is a great opportunity for college students looking for hands on experience in social work, psychology, and education.
Apply today and help us support our student’s journey. We would love to share with you more about our students and the shift we are currently interviewing for.
Schedule:
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 2:45PM-11PM and one Sunday shift every other week
- Part-Time
Qualifications and Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent is required
- 21 years or older (to be able to drive company vehicles)
- Acceptable Driving Record
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check upon accepting an offer
Duties
- Attend shift meetings once a week.
- Drive company vehicles to transport students to and from appointments and activities
- Attend monthly company training (minimum requirement is at last one each quarter)
- Provide a safe and nurturing environment for clients
- Implement therapeutic interventions for each client
- Provide structure, implement rules, implement time management, help with ADL’s, help clients process feelings/emotions
- Dependable, reliable, receive and carry out instruction, and genuinely care for others
- Observe and monitor behavior and have the ability to chart on those observations in a professional and subjective manner
Maple Lake Academy is a residential treatment center for adolescents (boys and girls 13 to 18) on the autistic spectrum. Our students are high functioning dealing with deficits in social skills, life skills, inability to understand their own emotions or put their emotions in to words. Many of our students are emotionally fragile or don’t have strong emotional intelligence. We provide a safe and nurturing home like environment for our students to learn skills that push them in the areas mentioned above. Our team works with our client population daily, hands on, and in one on one situations. We also have Bridges to Independent Living, which is a transition home available for up to 6 residents (young adult women) ages 18-24 who experience higher functioning autism.
Bridges offers a focused and individualized program for its residents who could benefit from a supportive environment while exploring their independence. Our residents are attending school (UVU), jobs and are working toward living on their own.
Founded
2005
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Educational
Maple Lake Academy is a residential treatment center for adolescents (boys and girls 13 to 18) on the autistic spectrum. Our students are high functioning dealing with deficits in social skills, life skills, inability to understand their own emotions or put their emotions in to words. Many of our students are emotionally fragile or don’t have strong emotional intelligence. We provide a safe and nurturing home like environment for our students to learn skills that push them in the areas mentioned above. Our team works with our client population daily, hands on, and in one on one situations. We also have Bridges to Independent Living, which is a transition home available for up to 6 residents (young adult women) ages 18-24 who experience higher functioning autism.
Bridges offers a focused and individualized program for its residents who could benefit from a supportive environment while exploring their independence. Our residents are attending school (UVU), jobs and are working toward living on their own.
Founded
2005
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Educational
