
JOB TITLE: Hat Creek Overnight Summer Camp Counselor
Department: Hat Creek Camp
Job Status Active
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports To: Director of Hat Creek Camp & Conferences
Job Type Full Time (Seasonal)
Positions Supervised: Summer Campers
Work Schedule: Sunday-Friday
Hat Creek Overnight Summer Camp Counselors are one of our campers’ favorite parts of summer! We provide a home away from home where our counselors are free to stretch their comfort zone, grow in ways they never knew possible, and discover the joy of summer camp. Our counselors have the unique opportunity to foster community with their cabin group by offering support and intentional daily reflection. Every week is different at camp and our counselors provide creativity, pizzazz, and laughter to our camp community. Hat Creek Camp provides counselors the opportunity to grow their skills in group management, age-appropriate programming, and safety and supervision.
Counselors will undergo a three-week training in preparation for summer camp. The training encompasses protocols and procedures as well as games, bonding, and goofiness. Counselors are guided and supervised by the Camp Director and Programming Coordinator. Our staff form close, lifelong friendships that last long after summer camp is over.
Join a team that is committed to constantly improving our outstanding programs and creating an excellent experience for kids!
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At FIVE18 Family Services, one of our foundational values is that every child has the right to a safe and healthy home. Because of that, we are leading the charge to confront the reasons foster care exists. From Operations to Marketing to Family Care, every team and ministry at FIVE18 is designed for and dedicated to this charge.
Our Mission: To build communities of faithful relationships that ensure children are safe, and families are restored.
Why? Vision 30! By 2030, our focus is to see every child in Central Virginia (or “our region”) safe in their own family or in another setting with caregivers supported by a local faith community.
How? We meet families right where they are to provide healing, restoration, and hope.
Family Care
The Family Care team programs meet families where they are by providing help to families in crisis to help stabilize where they are and build a meaningful life for themselves and their children. We provide support for kinship caregivers, foster families, short-term placements for children, and long-term placements for children. We meet families where they are and help them to thrive.
Connect
Our Connect team will help you find your place. We partner with volunteers, churches, and agencies to strengthen families and keep them strong. We make the connections in our community to meet your practical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
Counseling
Sometimes you just need someone to talk to. Everyone’s story should be heard and we are hear to listen. To meet your needs, our counseling services extend into some of the local school systems, Hope For Tomorrow Counseling, Hope Academy for Counselor Excellence, and Compass Marriage.
Hat Creek Camp
Virginia’s premier trauma-informed camp and retreat destination that offers year-round programming and availability for event reservations.